1 posted on
08/31/2002 11:42:48 AM PDT by
Mensch
To: Mensch
Yeah!!
To: Mensch
He hid in Israel?
To: Mensch
His name sounds familiar. Can you please tell me what he did? I think it was in connection with the Twin Tower bombing years ago.
4 posted on
08/31/2002 11:49:53 AM PDT by
illbenice
To: Mensch
Military tribunal, anyone?
To: Mensch
RAMALLAH, West Bank- Israeli soldiers arrested the Islamic militant group Hamas' top political leader in the West Bank on Saturday in a raid on his Ramallah hide-out.
Blindfolded and clutching a bottle of water, Hasan Yousef was taken out of the house in the center of the West Bank city into an Israeli military vehicle. The capture was filmed by Associated Press Television News.
Another blindfolded man was led out with Yousef, but his identity was not known. Israeli soldiers conducted a wider sweep in downtown Ramallah on Saturday, pulling out men and leading them away blindfolded. It was not known how many Palestinians were arrested.
Yousef heads the political wing of Hamas in the West Bank, and the Israeli army said it had been hunting for him for some time. Military sources said a substantial amount of money was found in Yousef's hide-out, but they gave no exact figure.
"Israel is playing with fire and the continuation of arrests, assassinations and aggression against our people and against our leaders will not stop the resistance," said Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader in Gaza, upon hearing the news of Yousef's arrest.
"We warn the occupation against any attempt on the life of Sheik Yousef and all the others arrested," he said.
Hamas has claimed responsibility for scores of suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israelis in the near two-year conflict.
The arrest came at the start of a new Palestinian school year Saturday, with a million children trying to get to their classrooms amid heavy Israeli restrictions hampering the movement of goods and people.
Israel lifted its curfew for part of the day in several main West Bank towns, but the curfew remained in place in the town of Jenin and the Israeli-controlled section of Hebron, keeping students at home.
In other parts of the West Bank, Palestinian schoolchildren heading for school lined up outside checkpoints, opening their backpacks for Israeli soldiers to check.
Dressed in uniforms, some students avoided roadblocks by traveling on dirt roads or mountain paths to reach their schools, said Education Minister Naim Abu Hommos. Teachers, too, braved long lines.
"Moving 45,000 teachers to their schools is not easy, they have to walk through the mountains and valleys to reach their schools, and we are determined to keep our schools open," he said.
More than one million students were expected to begin their studies, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said in a statement.
"Our experience from the last school year was not encouraging at all," said the ministry, adding that 216 students were killed, 2,514 injured and 164 arrested during Israel's crackdown.
Palestinian officials urged Israel to allow students to move freely and to lift curfews and roadblocks.
"We need the curfew to be lifted all day or it will be impossible to go ahead with the regular education process," said Jouman Qarman, head of the Palestinian education office in Nablus.
After a spate of suicide bombings in June, Israel sealed off much of the Palestinian territories and imposed stiff curfews. Many Palestinians have been confined to their homes for days at a time. The result has been economic devastation, with poverty and unemployment rates rising dramatically.
Israel says its measures are necessary to keep out suicide bombers.
Also Saturday, Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yehiyeh, who heads the Palestinian security forces, met U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Satterfield as part of talks aimed at reducing tensions.
Satterfield told reporters afterward that he was meeting both sides to discuss "how best to move forward in a manner that restores comprehensive, lasting and sustained calm to Israelis and Palestinians and how best to advance the political vision outlined by President Bush in June."
In the West Bank town of Tulkarem late Friday, an 18-year-old Palestinian woman was killed by militants who accused her of planting the bomb which killed a local militant leader, Raed Karmi, on Jan. 13. The militants were from the Al Aqsa Brigades, affiliated to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
Al Aqsa members told The Associated Press that the woman, Rajaa Ibrahim, was given the bomb by Israeli intelligence.
The woman's mother, Yusriya Ibrahim, said she knew nothing about her daughter's alleged involvement in Karmi's death.
"I'm afraid for myself and my children," she said.
To: Mensch
They arrested Cat Stevens!?! The bastards!
To: Mensch
Tells you they were planning turmoil from within Israel - or could have been the head of the serpant there for some time.
16 posted on
08/31/2002 11:56:48 AM PDT by
A CA Guy
To: All
To: Mensch
Maybe we could get Mossad to pick up Ramsey Clark too.
To: Mensch
'Proud terrorist' gets life for Trade Center bombing
Ramzi Yousef not eligible for parole
To: Mensch
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought the US already had Ramsay Yousef?
The article says this newly captured guy is Hasan Yousef? Are they relations?
To: Mensch
Guest: Hamas' Hasan Yousef (Abu Mus'ab)
Date : Thu, Oct 19 2000 Time: 04:00 PM GMT
Place: Hamas' Hasan Yousef (Abu Mus'ab) Room (Hamas Live)
One of Hamas' leaders speaks out on arabia.com chat
He's not chatting anymore!
To: Mensch
Wrong Yousef -- Ramsey was apprehended (in Pakistan) tried, convicted and jailed in the U.S. in 1997 for the 1993 WTC attack, a plot to kill Pope John Paul II in Manila, and a plan to blow up eleven American jetliners in 48 hours (foiled by a fire following his experiments with explosives in his Manila apartment.)
I have no idea if this Yousef is related, although Ramsey did have a Pakistani mother and a Palestinian father.
To: Mensch
Are you sure you didn't hear Hasan Yosef rather than Ramsey? The latter is imprisoned in the U.S., and has been for quite some time.
33 posted on
08/31/2002 12:08:57 PM PDT by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mensch; Admin Moderator
Wrong dude. Title should be changed
To: Mensch
Ramzi Yousef has long been custody in the US, doing 240 years in a US prison. He was the planner of the '93 bombing of the WTC.
44 posted on
08/31/2002 12:19:47 PM PDT by
beckett
To: Mensch
Not sure why, but when I opened this thread my Cookie alert notified me that arabia.com was trying to put a cookie on my computer (you can set up ie to ask whether or not to allow a cookie and whether or not to block all cookies from that site in the future, etc, I always have this turned on - what I am not sure of is why it popped up on this thread)
To: Mensch
Ahhh I see now, post #28 has a link to Arabia.com
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