Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021295.php
June 6, 2008
Pakistan arrests three would-be suicide bombers, seizes a ton of explosives
Looks like they were planning some serious Interior Spiritual Struggle.
“Pakistani authorities arrest 3, seize explosives,” by Munir Ahmad for Associated Press, June 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than a ton of explosives in a suspected terror plot near the capital, officials said Friday.
Senior police officer Rao Mohammed Iqbal told The Associated Press that several suspects, including the three alleged bombers, were arrested in the operation late Thursday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
He provided no details on what the bombers allegedly wanted to target and whether the vehicles had been rigged to detonate.
However, two security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media, said the arrested men were suspected of wanting to target “sensitive installations.”...
Posted by Robert at June 6, 2008 7:43 AM
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080606102240.q43gjbot&show_article=1
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday raised the spectre of a full-scale military operation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip despite Egyptian attempts to mediate a truce.
“According to the information as it is now, the pendulum is much closer to tough military action,” Olmert told journalists on arrival in Israel following a three-day trip to the United States.
His comments came a day after a man was killed in southern Israel in a mortar attack claimed by the armed wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement that has run Gaza since it ousted forces loyal to secular Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas a year ago.
**** If Israel is smart, they’d handle Gaza ASAP and secure it, then they could face the Hezzies and Syria with a secured rear area - and not surrounded as Iran wants them to be.