Post by Paddy by Grace on Dec 15, 2008 18:50:01 GMT -7
Kidnap, glider attacks in Jerusalem foiled. Two Palestinians arrested
www2.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5773
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that two residents of the Jerusalem village of Isawiya, Iyad Abid, 20, and Abdullah Abid, 21, were indicted before Jerusalem district court Sunday, Dec. 14, on charges of plotting a series of terrorist attacks on Israeli Border Guard and army officers on duty in the neighborhood of their village. One plan was to ram a border patrol jeep, use electric shockers to stun the officers and take them hostage against the release of jailed Palestinians, including members of their family.
Isawiya is strategically located close to the Hebrew University, Hadassah hospital which serves the neighborhood, Mount Scopus, French Hill and the Jerusalem-Maaleh Adummim highway. The two accused Palestinians, brothers and Hamas members, also conspired to crash a glider loaded with explosives on the IDF electronic early warning station on Mount Scopus.
The pair had carried out practice runs with a remote-controlled craft which fell to the ground.
They asked Palestinians in the West Bank town of Bethlehem to find them an M-16 for a shooting rampage in Jerusalem.
Last July, Jerusalemites were terrorized by a string of Palestinian tractor rampages in downtown thoroughfares.
www2.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5773
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that two residents of the Jerusalem village of Isawiya, Iyad Abid, 20, and Abdullah Abid, 21, were indicted before Jerusalem district court Sunday, Dec. 14, on charges of plotting a series of terrorist attacks on Israeli Border Guard and army officers on duty in the neighborhood of their village. One plan was to ram a border patrol jeep, use electric shockers to stun the officers and take them hostage against the release of jailed Palestinians, including members of their family.
Isawiya is strategically located close to the Hebrew University, Hadassah hospital which serves the neighborhood, Mount Scopus, French Hill and the Jerusalem-Maaleh Adummim highway. The two accused Palestinians, brothers and Hamas members, also conspired to crash a glider loaded with explosives on the IDF electronic early warning station on Mount Scopus.
The pair had carried out practice runs with a remote-controlled craft which fell to the ground.
They asked Palestinians in the West Bank town of Bethlehem to find them an M-16 for a shooting rampage in Jerusalem.
Last July, Jerusalemites were terrorized by a string of Palestinian tractor rampages in downtown thoroughfares.