Posted on 04/18/2002 12:55:49 PM PDT by tomahawk
PA Intelligence Chief Tirawi involved in terror
By Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Correspondents and Agencies
Intelligence gathered during "Operation Defensive Shield" indicates that Palestinian Intelligence Chief in the West Bank Tawfiq Tirawi was directly involved in terrorist activities against Israel.
According to interrogations of suspects captured during the IDF operation, Tirawi and his men recruited terrorists, trained them and supplied them with ammunition.
According to IDF sources, Tirawi's orginization knew of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's terrorist activities, which at a later stage led to the murder of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
3 Palestinians killed as IDF apprehends top Hamas militant
IDF forces apprehended Husam Badran, one of the leading members of Hamas' Nablus military wing - Iz a Din al-Kassam - Thursday, in an operation in the West Bank village of Harvat Beit Hasan, northeast of Nablus.
IDF helicopters fired two missiles at a house with Badran and others inside, killing three Palestinians. An IDF elite unit descended from a helicopter and arrested Badran, who emerged uninjured from the missile attack.
The identity of the three dead was not released, but security sources said that they are most probably Hamas activists.
Badran was involved in all of the terror attacks that were initiated by Nablus terrorists. Among them were the suicide attacks at the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant and the Pesach attack at Netanya's Park Hotel.
He may even make a few victory laps around the Trafalgar Square. He will be even more welcome in Barcelona, of course.
In the present-day climate, the best victory Israel can achieve is to exhile them. But they are emboldened: even ordinary policemen in the Church of the Nativity refuse the exhile. Given the European support, they expect to receive summer homes in Provence upon leaving the Church.
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