Hamas releases picture of Nuriel [Bound and Duct-Taped Before Murder]

Jerusalem Post ^ | Sept. 27, 2005 | Etgar Lefkovits

[Alouette]

Hamas released on Tuesday graphic pictures of Sasson Nuriel taken after his abduction but before he was murdered.

The photograph was published after Hamas terrorists claimed responsibility for kidnapping and killing Nuriel, the 51-year-old Jerusalem man who was found dead Monday.

Hamas announced that it had established new "kidnapping units" whose top priority would be capturing Israelis to be held hostage as leverage in prisoner release negotiations with Israel.

Nuriel's kidnappers said in a statement that they had abducted him on Wednesday with the intention of trading him for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

However, after Israel began a series of arrest raids against West Bank terrorists, they decided to kill him, the statement said.

The body of Sasson Nuriel of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev was found Monday morning in the West Bank village of Beitunya, near Ramallah, five days after he was reported missing.

A court gag order which had been in place at the police's request was partially lifted Monday afternoon after a news blackout on the abduction.

Nuriel's body was found after a four-day joint Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), IDF and police manhunt which resulted in the capture of one of the suspected members of the Hamas cell believed responsible for the killing, Jerusalem police said.

Nuriel, who worked in the industrial area of Mishor Adumim, not far from Ma'aleh Adumim, went missing on the afternoon of September 21. When he failed to come home from work that night, Nuriel's wife, Ronit, reported him missing just before midnight, at which time security officials immediately launched a massive manhunt for him.

Nuriel, a father of three, worked at a candy factory in the industrial zone and had business ties with several Palestinian merchants with whom he had close contacts.

It was not immediately clear Monday whether Nuriel knew any of his captors, with police investigating whether he was betrayed by any of his Palestinian co-workers or associates.

The arrest of one of the suspected members of the cell Sunday morning gave security officials their breakthrough in the case.

The Hamas activist had told investigators that the terrorist cell had planned to keep Nuriel alive and hold him in an apartment in Ramallah where he was supposed to be kept captive, according to the police summation of the case. But a Shin Bet raid on the apartment only turned up green Hamas headbands, the police said.

Jerusalem police said the Hamas suspect later told security officials that Nuriel was in fact dead and described the location of his body, which soldiers unearthed on Monday morning.

A manhunt for additional members of the terror cell continued Monday.

Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra said the murder was a "cowardly" terror-related attack, and that security forces had in recent days arrested several Hamas members near Ramallah on suspicion the terrorist group had kidnapped the businessman.

"This was not an abduction [for ransom] or a military operation. They came across a Jew whose only fault was being a Jew," Ezra said on Army Radio.

Nuriel was buried in Jerusalem on Monday night.

[Gritty]

This is probably one of the few money-making jobs remaining in Gaza.

Gaza is a country inhabited mainly by serial killers.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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[SJackson]

So how is Karen Hughes' "listening tour" of the Arab nations going? Keep appeasing the murderers. Great plan, that...

She's listening. Wonder how the food is?

[NY Attitude]

A question is: How would Gengis Khan or Alexander have dealt with Hamas and the Palestinians? Would he offer them the same thing by abonding Gaza, or kill them all, men women and children?

[Marauder]

Damned Pali-mutts; you can't live with them, but I'd be willing to bet that you could easily live without them.

[Cindy]

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JIHAD WATCH.org (HAARETZ): "ASSAD SAID TO HAVE GIVEN HAMAS, JIHAD GREEN LIGHT FOR TERRORISM" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Syrian President Bashar Assad earlier this month gave Hamas and Islamic Jihad representatives in Damascus a green light to carry out terror attacks and escalate fighting against Israel, Israel Radio said Wednesday, quoting a high-level Palestinian Authority intelligence dispatch, which was reportedly passed on to Egypt and Israel. Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim said Wednesday that Israel was aquainted with the dispatch.") (September 28, 2005)

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MEMRI.ORG: "AN INTERNVIEW WITH HAMAS LEADER DR. MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR" (August 19, 2005)

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FrontPageMagazine.com: "GOODBYE GAZA, HELLO HAMAS" by John Perazzo (August 24, 2005)

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SEATTLE TIMES.com: "BELLEVUE FIRM TIED TO PRO-HAMAS WEB SITE" by Peter Lewis (April 23, 2005)

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INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "THE INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE OF HAMAS" (September 5, 2004)

INTELLIGENCE.org.il - Special Bulletin: "HAMAS Portrait of a Terrorist Organization" (Updated September 1, 2004)

CNS NEWS.com: "MORE ALLEGED HAMAS OPERATIVES LINKED TO DC-AREA THINK TANK" by Scott Wheeler (August 26, 2004)

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[VeniVidiVici]

As good as Israel is against taking out senior members of Ham-Ass, you'd think they'd be a little more discrete in their killings.

[pankot]

The religion of peace strikes again. When will the Jewish people learn? Why not just give all of Israel to the Palestinians.

[bubbleb]

Thanks for the ping. Thank God we have brave men and women fighting those worthless cowards and their brothers in Afghanistan and Iraq so that this does not happen to us here.

[Victoria Delsoul]

God! These people are so despicable.

Palestinian school boys gather at the site where an IDF operation recovered the body of Sasson Nuriel in the West Bank city of Ramallah Monday.