Police Say Find Explosives Belt in Mosque in Israel

Reuters

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police said Friday they had found a suicide bomber's explosives belt hidden in a mosque in Israel, and said it was the first such discovery since the Palestinian uprising began more than two years ago.

The army said the belt was discovered Thursday as a result of "precise intelligence information" from two members of the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad who were captured by Israeli forces in the West Bank. Packed with about 30 pounds of explosives, the belt had been placed in the washroom of a mosque in the Israeli Arab town of Taybeh near the West Bank, police spokeswoman Shira Lieberman said.

Taybeh is along a route that suicide bombers have used in the past when infiltrating into Israel. Islamic Jihad has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings during the 28-month-old Palestinian uprising for statehood.

Taybeh mayor Salah Jabara condemned the use of the mosque as a hiding place for explosives. "In the final analysis, bombs harm Arabs and Jews alike," Jabara told Israeli Army Radio.

Police did not say who they suspect may have placed the belt in the mosque. Israeli Arabs, who make up some 18 percent of the population of the Jewish state, sympathize with the Palestinian revolt but have largely stayed on its sidelines.

Lieberman said experts moved the explosives out of the mosque before defusing them.

"The use of a mosque to hide explosives shows that Palestinian terrorists will stop at nothing to harm Israelis," said David Baker, an official in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office.

Amichai Shai, police chief of the Sharon district where Taybeh is located, told Army Radio that security forces have previously found explosives hidden in mosques in the West Bank, but not in Israel.

At least 1,819 Palestinians and 700 Israelis have been killed since the uprising began in September 2000.

[OXENinFLA]

I wonder if it was left FOR someone to use or BY someone that chickened out.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The army said the belt was discovered Thursday as a result of "precise intelligence information" from two members of the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad who were captured by Israeli forces in the West Bank.

Israeli intelligence seems particularly capable of gleaning information from those who might normally be reluctant to divulge it.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Time for the bulldozers again!

[LOC1]

Actually, it would seem more appropriate that the authorities remotely detonate the explosive belt at the precise location where it was found. Not only would that have eliminated the explosives, it also would have removed that location from the list of places used to hide such horrible things.

[pt17]

Actually, it would seem more appropriate that the authorities remotely detonate the explosive belt at the precise location where it was found. Not only would that have eliminated the explosives, it also would have removed that location from the list of places used to hide such horrible things

That's exactly what I was thinking. Provide consequence to the use of Mosques for terrorist activities.

[RossA]

Not only do they get the info, they don't even leave a mark on them. Very impressive!

[Credo]

Actually I think the explosives belt may be part of the Religion of Peace™'s sacraments.

[dennisw]

Both are from LGF.
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Hello Mullah
Hello Fadah
Get me out of
Intifadah
Had the semtex
Strapped to my body
But we had to go and hide it in the potty...


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Went an' ate me some goat-head soup,
Stuff was bad so I had to make a poop.
The joos shut down the pay-toilet kiosk,
So went to do my doody in the mosque.
I often had been here before,
So when I dropped my belt of C4,
Shit! Mo-fo!
When it hit, the damn thing blow!
Shards of john be in the air along with poo,
And Achmed, Omar and Kemal, too!
Yellow-stained flying bits of enamel,
Place smell like the south end of a northbound camel!
Just like a flaming toilet paper roll,
Who, I say who, blew up da bowl?

[Abar]

Israeli police said Friday they had found a suicide bomber's explosives belt hidden in a mosque

SHOCKING news - using a mosque as a center for muslim terror.

CLEARLY this isn't happening RIGHT NOW in the United States.