Arabs with Israeli citizenship convicted in plot to blow up Tel Aviv 'Twin Towers'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=91079 Arab Citizens Convicted of Plot to Blow Up Azrieli Towers Sunday, October 9, 2005
Three Arab citizens of the State of Israel were convicted Sunday of plotting to blow up the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv, and a plot to plant a bomb on railroad tracks near Netanya.
The Tel Aviv District Court also convicted the Arabs of attempting to provide assistance to a foreign enemy during time of war. One of the Arabs was convicted of contacting a foreign enemy agent.
The three Arabs, Dubian Natzirat, 27; Amir Zivati, 20; and Mugahad Dukan, 19; all from Taibe, admitted their guilt and were convicted under a plea bargain arrangement.
Dukan, the prime suspect in the case, was originally from the Arab camp of Balata, just south of Shechem, the largest Arab-populated city in Judea and Samaria. Dukan received his Israeli citizenship when his parents attained permission to legally immigrate to Israel a number of years ago.
Although the family moved to Taibe, another large Arab-populated city within Israel's pre-1967 borders, Dukan never lost touch with his previous residence.
Balata has been a breeding ground for Arab terrorists over the past four decades. A few months ago, a wanted terrorist from Balata made contact with Dukan and asked him to help plant a bomb inside Israel. Dukan agreed.
Not wanting to waste Dukan's efforts on only one bomb, another wanted terrorist from Judea and Samaria, Ahmed Casey, asked Dukan to help plant three bombs, one of them on the railroad tracks near Netanya.
Casey's first idea was to plant the bomb in one of the cars, but Dukan objected to the idea of becoming a suicide bomber and suggested blowing up the train tracks instead.
A few days later the two met, and Casey explained to Dukan how to attach the bomb to the tracks and set it off. Casey told Dukan he would hand him the bombs at an army roadblock, located on the pre-1967 line, after hiding them in a sack of clothing.
Dukan met his co-conspirators back in his new residence of Taibe, about thirty minutes drive from the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv. Ironically, it was Zivati, a life-long Israeli citizen and Taibe resident, that suggested that Dukan use the bombs to blow up the Azrieli towers in Tel Aviv.
The Azrieli Towers, among the tallest buildings in the Middle East, are modern Tel Aviv landmarks. The three modern steel and glass buildings
Questions surround London bombings as UK police continue search for Pakistani who masterminded attacks
October 10, 2005
The Times October 08, 2005
Pakistani who instructed 7/7 cell eludes detectives
By Daniel McGrory
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1816225,00.html
HIS identity is still a mystery and three months after the July 7 attacks police are trying to discover what happened to the figure seen ordering around some of the bombers on a whitewater rafting adventure.
The tall visitor from Pakistan spoke no English, and refused to be photographed like the other men on the adventure training trip to Wales a month before the bombings.
Staff at the adventure centre described how Mohammad Sidique Khan, the oldest of the suicide bombers, translated instructions to their Pakistani guest, who exuded considerable influence over the rest of the group. Most of his remarks were addressed to Khan, 30, and his fellow bomber, Shehzad Tanweer, who was 22.
Locals from their Yorkshire neighbourhoods remember seeing the same figure at the Hamara Youth Centre, where Khan put his followers through martial arts training. "Then, as quickly as the man appeared on the scene, he vanished from the community just before the attacks," one police source said.
Where he went and why he was with the bombers is one of the key questions still confounding those leading Britain's biggest murder hunt.
The elusive Pakistani is among a number of people that they are desperate to trace, including at least two local associates of the bombers who have not been seen since the attacks, which killed 56 people.
Senior officers insist they are making progress, but still nobody has been charged and they appear no nearer to finding other members of the cell.
Police have never believed that the four British-born bombers were acting alone and wonder if the mystery Pakistani man was sent to help the group to finalise their plans.
Three weeks after the rafting expedition, three of the bombers — Khan, Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay — went on a reconnaissance trip to London. Their guest from Pakistan disappeared shortly after this June 28 visit.