ISRAEL NABS IRAQ-TRAINED TERRORISTS FROM W. BANK

New York Post ^ | 9/24/02 | Uri Dan

[jwalsh07]

JERUSALEM - Three members of a Palestinian terror cell who trained in Iraq's military camps have been arrested as they tried to make their way back into Israel, officials said yesterday.

Israeli media reported that officials were flying to Washington to personally brief the CIA on the arrests, which took place as the United States readied its forces for battle with Baghdad.

[jwalsh07]

The dots have been connected.

Terrorists.....al Qaeda.....Abu Abbas(long overdue for killing).....Iraq.....Saddam Hussein

Game, set, match.

[jwalsh07]

Thought you might be interested in this. Abbas is the guy who is resonsible for the death of Leon Klinghoffer. His bill has come due Johnny.

[jwalsh07]

I don't know if you've seen this but Uri Dan is plugged in in Israel. If he is reporting this, he got it from the big shots.

[dennisw]

Uri Dan is connected as they get. Friends with Ariel Sharon.... And I've seen his articles in the NY Post for more than 25 years. Back when the Post was a liberal rag but still a very good one.

[jwalsh07]

Over the years I've heard rumors that he was actually an agent for Mossad. In any case, when the Israeli's want Americans to know something it inevitably shows up in Uri Dan's column.

[dennisw]

He might help out the Mossad every now and then. He's what you call a homer. He roots for the home team with no self doubt. The opposite of a conflicted liberal Jew.

[dennisw]

By helping out the Mossad I would say he gets debriefed after an encounter (interview) with a major foreign politician.

[jwalsh07]

I really don't know about his Mossad connections. I do know he is an astute observer of the Middle East who manages to scoop everybody else when it comes to Israel. Gotta be a reason for that dennis. :-}

[Thud]

ping

[Dallas]

The timing of this info....is kinda.....well......

[jwalsh07]

STay tuned, there's more to come. al Ani and Atta in Prague, Salman Pak the terrorists merry hijcking Disneyland, the sudden and foortunate demise of Abu Nidal, the MEK's running terrorist ops out of southern Iraq. The list is endless.

[dennisw]

Timing is a little too convenient? This just might be.

[Howlin]

Abu Abbas(long overdue for killing).....

Long.

[Howlin]

More and more of these names are connecting, aren't they?

[jwalsh07]

Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas) was born in Safed in 1948 and his family flew to Syria the same year. He became a member of Ahmad Jibril's PFLP-GC in 1968, but disputed with Jibril over the pro-Syrian stance of the organization and finally left it in April 1977 and formed the PLF. Abu Abbas was considered to be pro-Iraqi. He was wounded during the war in Lebanon in 1982. He became a member of PLO's Executive Committee in 1984 and during the Palestinian National Council meeting of 1989 supported the organization's acceptance of UN's resolution 242. Abu Abbas became famous after his organization hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship in October 1985. The PLF and Abu Abbas personally received consistent financial assistance from Yasser Arafat.

Abu Abbas returned to Gaza Strip after the Oslo agreement. There is still an international American warrant against Abu Abbas for his responsibility in the murder of Leon Klinghoffer during the Achille Lauro hijacking.

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Terrorist Activity

September 16, 1978: Failed attempt of a squad to penetrate into Kiryat Shmona.

April 22, 1979: A squad of four terrorists penetrated from Lebanon to Nahariya using a rubber boat. The squad took over a house in Nahariya, took part of the family hostages, murdered the father, his daughter and a police officer and injured four citizens.

March 7, 1981: Failed attempt of a two member squad flying gliders to penetrate from the Lebanese border to the Haifa area. Both terrorists were forced to land near the Israeli border and were captured. Their intention was to throw bombs and grenades from the air in the Haifa area.

April 16, 1981: Failed attempt of a two member squad to penetrate from the Lebanese border flying a balloon, in order to take hostages. The balloon was shot down by the IDF in the Lebanese area next to the Israeli border and both terrorists were killed.

October 7, 1985: A four member squad took over the Italian cruise ship Aquille Lauro, while it was sailing from Alexandria towards Israel. The squad murdered Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly invalid passenger on the ship and Jewish American citizen. The members of the squad turned themselves to the Egyptian authorities and Abu Abbas and the four terrorists were permitted to fly away in an Egyptian plane. The plane was forced by US fighter planes to land in Sicily, where the Italian authorities claimed jurisdiction and released Abu Abbas. Later he was convicted to life imprisonment in absentia. The four terrorists who participated in the hijacking were tried in Italy and sentenced to prison by the Italian courts.

January 6, 1990: Muhammad Amin Jarar, member of the PLF and resident of Jenin, was convicted in a military court in Israel for planning a terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in Egyptian tourist sites.

May 30, 1990: A squad of 17 members attempted a seaborne attack on the Tel Aviv beaches and hotels, with the intention to kill tourists and Israeli citizens. The five rubber-boats they used were intercepted by Israeli military forces on the Nitzanim beach and four of the terrorists were killed and 12 were taken prisoners. The terrorists trained in Libya, which gave massive logistic support to the operation and provided the mother-ship from where the rubber-boats took-off. Tterrorist raid provoked the suspension of the dialogue the United States led at that time with the PLO.

During the 1980s several attempts of squads from the Tal'at Ya'akub faction to penetrate from Lebanon to Israel were foiled in the security zone in Southern Lebanon, before they even arrived at the Israeli border.

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[jwalsh07]

ABbas is closely associated to Arafat and Hussein. Its a damn spiders nest and the thing that unties them is their hatred of all things Jewish and American.

[Robert_Paulson2]

alexander... gordian knot... lots of hacking....

[jwalsh07]

Damocles

[GVnana]

Yep. Thanks for the ping. I remember the Achille Lauro very well. What's this idiocy about Israel allowing Abbas into Gaza after the Oslo Accords? Oh well. Sure hope Israel knows how to treat it's new guest.

[MamaLucci]

bttt