Wednesday, July 05, 2006

5-Jul-06: More From the Anti-terrorist Front

As of noon today, there are 19 specific terror alerts regarding plans to carry out terror attacks, most of them focused on Islamic Jihad and the northern Samaria area.

A second terror attack (the first is reported below) was foiled today, this one based in the usually-quiet Jericho. As a result of intelligence information (details are rarely released), Fatah terrorist Mahmoud Jaberi was cornered in his Jericho home. He preferred to avoid apprehension, but was spotted, shot and killed while escaping. His home was searched, and explosives found. Jaberi happens to be the terrorist responsible for the stabbing murder in April 2001 of an Israeli taxi driver, Simcha Ron whose close friendships with many Israeli and Palestinian Arabs eventually made no difference.

It's been a busy day. IDF forces arrested 10 other wanted terror suspects today in various Judea and Samaria villages. Four Hamas operatives were arrested in Qalqilya; 5 more in Ramallah; a Fatah terrorist was arrested in Bethlehem.

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