Posted: 2/11/2004 7:18:49 PM EDT
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If you follow that link and click the picture you get routed to an article. Feb. 12, 2004 Hamas Kassam rocket cell captured By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH The Shin Bet revealed on Thursday that in early January they, together with IDF forces, arrested Fadel Taha, 30, the head of a Hamas infrastructure in Ramallah, and five of his accomplices who were responsible for manufacturing Kassam rockets in a laboratory they set up. Officials said the rockets were in the advanced stages of being constructed when the six were arrested. Intelligence gained from an IDF operation in Ramallah in December led to their arrests. In an operation launched on December 1, security forces arrested 29 Hamas suspects, and blew up two bomb factories, a belt containing 20 kilograms of explosives and demolished 3 buildings. Security officials said that in an operation carried out by the IDF on October 21 last year to target Hamas terrorists in Ramallah, many Hamas members affiliated with the infrastructure were arrested or killed by security forces, and information gained from questioning detainees together with documents seized revealed the identities of others who remained at large. Taha was arrested in 2001 and incarcerated in Israel serving two prison terms for terrorist activities, He told investigators that in prison he made contacts with other Hamas activists from the Gaza Strip. Released at the beginning of 2003, he resumed his activities in Ramallah and began building up the Hamas infrastructure and the manufacturing of the rockets. Osama Halil, 23, a computer expert, was Taha's aide and was arrested during the IDF operation in Ramallah last October. Officials noted that it is the second Hamas infrastructure responsible for constructing Kassam rockets. In March 2002, security forces revealed and destroyed a similar infrastructure operating in the city. Last December, the Shin Bet and IDF forces arrested 22 Hamas cell members affiliated with a deeply entrenched infrastructure in the Ramallah area. The cell members planned to stage a road accident on Road 60 by ramming a truck into an IDF jeep, and at the same time shoot at soldiers, snatch some of the soldiers' bodies and decapitate the heads of other soldiers and bury them in pits. Security officials noted that the attack was in advanced planning stages and the group had purchased necessary tools needed to decapitate the heads and had already dug the holes to bury the soldiers' bodies in. Prior to their arrests, the terrorists made several failed attempts to perpetrate the planned attack. The infrastructure was responsible for the murders of ten Israelis, five soldiers and five civilians and the wounding of 12 in 2003. And you get this pic [img]http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?ssbinary=true&cachecontrol=*%3A0%2C30%3A10+*%2F*%2F*&blobtable=JPImage&blobcol=urlimage&blobwhere=1070165919034&blobkey=id&blobheader=image/jpeg[/img] and Soldiers display captured Palestinian ordnance at IDF Divisional Headquarters in Gush Katif Photo: Arieh O'Sullivan Nice camo job. |
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[img]http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?ssbinary=true&cachecontrol=*%3A2%2C12%2C22%2C32%2C42%2C52%3A10+*%2F*%2F*&blobtable=JPImageSpotlight&blobcol=urlimage&blobwhere=1064202589132&blobkey=id&blobheader=image/jpeg[/img] [b]Nonsense! It's movie night for Hamas. They're setting up the movie screen...[/b] |