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Excerpt- Forces encircle house in search of wanted Hamas member. Blasts heard in building during exchanges of fire as result of explosive devices kept inside. Body of man who planned Dimona terror attack removed from rubble. Hamas: Our response will be painful IDF and police forces have killed senior Hamas member Shihab Natsheh, who was behind a terror attack in Dimona last February which left one woman killed. Natashe was killed during exchanges of fire with the forces in the West Bank city of Hebron early Sunday. There were injuries among the forces. ~ snip ~

PA glorifies Dimona terrorists | Jerusalem Post, PA glorifies Dimona terrorists. By YADID BERMAN ... granting them Islam's highest honor, clearly contradicts Abbas's condemnation of the terror attack. ... The terrorists who perpetrated Monday's suicide bombing in Dimona were glorified in three newspapers controlled by the Palestinian Authority, including the official Al-Hayat al-Jadida which is controlled by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Media Watch reported Wednesday. "The perpetrators of the operation died as shahids ... an Israeli was killed and eleven were wounded in the Dimona operation," Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported on February 5... http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202246334919&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

JERUSALEM — Dr. Baruch Mandeltzwieg knelt down and ripped open the jacket of a critically wounded man from Monday's homicide bombing in Dimona to begin emergency treatment. But instead of finding gushing blood, he was struck by another sight — an explosive belt. The wounded man turned out to be a would-be suicide bomber who was knocked out by the force of the initial blast before he was able to detonate his own explosive belt. "His head was moving. He was a patient who could be treated," Mandeltzwieg told Israel's Army radio. "We started to treat him and then we...

The bloody BBC's hands in murdering  the innocent in Israel   Feb. 4, 2008   What do you know, after weeks of mounting vicious anti Israel campaign, buying all Islamofascist Hamas' tactics of causing self harm to their population: targeting Israeli children in Sderot to draw an Israeli anti terror operation in order to have the "victim-hood" being picked up.   The BBC as always (mainly since 1987), is on the front champions in this crime, not just ignoring the cynical game Islamic terrorists play (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah), but far worse, it actually plays a mouthpiece for them by...

Iran Terrorism Murders 3 In Dimona, Israel - Reactor Unharmed By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----- February 4, 2008 ....... An Islamic suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern Israel town of Dimona. The terror attack murdered at least three people and wounding ten. Dimona, is the location of Israel's nuclear reactor. The blast did not occur at the reactor site but rather miles away. The suicide terror bombing was carried out by two attackers, according to Israel security sources. "One terrorist succeeded in detonating his explosives. The other terrorist was killed by a police officer from...

Is the U.S. Failing in Afghanistan? It was malice in wonderland at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday as Bush Administration envoys insisted things are getting better in Afghanistan, while angry lawmakers from both parties cited facts and figures showing just the opposite. Even the senior Republican on the panel, Senator Richard Lugar, found the Administration's claims wanting. "I'm not sure that we have a plan for Afghanistan," he said. Long seen as the "forgotten war" eclipsed by Iraq in U.S. priorities, Afghanistan is in the Washington spotlight this week with the release of three independent reports concluding...

TWO DEAD IN SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBING IN SOUTHERN ISRAELI TOWN OF DIMONA - ZAKA EMERGENCY SERVICE

Russia confirms Soviet sorties over Dimona in '67 By DAVID HOROVITZ The chief spokesman of the Russian Air Force, Col. Aleksandr V. Drobyshevsky, has confirmed in writing for the first time that it was Soviet pilots, in the USSR's most-advanced MiG-25 "Foxbat" aircraft, who flew highly-provocative sorties over Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona in May 1967, just prior to the Six Day War. Gideon Remez and Isabello Ginor, who co-wrote the recent book Foxbats over Dimona, which asserts that the Soviet Union deliberately engineered the war to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed, on Thursday...

Israel Cabinet Congratulates President Shimon Peres By Israel News Agency Staff Jerusalem ----July 16 ..... The following was communicated by the Israel Cabinet Secretariat and the Israel Government Press Office to the Israel News Agency. Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the Israel Government was committed to continue seeing to the security of Israel in every sense of the word vis-avis budgetary issues and added that the Government was also committed to championing social issues. He said that the government needs to find the proper balance between these two important goals in accordance with the economic situation. Israel Prime...

WMD Commission head says Israel and Iran 'should both end fuel-cycles' LUXEMBOURG - Israel should comply with the same demand being made of Iran, to cease its nuclear fuel-cycle and stop enriching uranium, Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), told Ynetnews Thursday. Blix had earlier delivered a speech at the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe being held in Luxembourg, where he warned that the "world is sleep-walking into nuclear rearmament." Formally a top UN weapons inspector, Blix now heads the Sweden-based WMDC, which says it aims to "forge realistic and constructive ideas and proposals...

Parachutist Downed Over Dimona Nuclear Facility 16:57 May 22, '06 / 24 Iyar 5766 (IsraelNN.com) A parachutist who was hovering over the Dimona nuclear facility was forced down by authorities. He landed in Yerucham and is being questioned by police at this time.

JERUSALEM — The distribution of anti-radiation pills to residents near Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona last month caused more puzzlement than panic. There had never been a known radiation leak from the facility and there were no signs of war that might pose a near-term risk to the reactor. Pronouncements from military chiefs in Tehran and Tel Aviv, however, have cast the pill distribution in a new light. "The entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear facilities and atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran's advanced missiles," Yadollah Javani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's political bureau, declared last...

A team from the American news corporation CNN was questioned by Israel Police on Tuesday on suspicion of trying to film at the country's nuclear reactor in Dimona. The four-strong team was detained at around 5 P.M. Tuesday after apparently attempting to shoot footage on a road to the right of the reactor. The four were originally questioned by the nuclear plant's security officers, who then reported the matter to Dimona police. During questioning, the four said that they had visited the nuclear plant as part of preparations for the release of nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on Wednesday. The team's...

VIENNA - "Obviously, the smaller the country is, the more concerned it will be," says Daniela Rozgonova, who is responsible for external and media relations at the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). Her office is in the Vienna International Center, a high-rise compound that looks out over the Danube and is home to the head offices of several UN-affiliated organizations. Although her words may be interpreted as an implied criticism of Israel, they are primarily directed at a description of the facts: the treaty, which bans nuclear testing at sea, in the atmosphere, on...

Editorial: Happy birthday, Shimon Shimon Peres "Opposition," said William Blake, "is true friendship." We think of that line in the afterglow of Shimon Peres's 80th birthday party, which brought together, among other celebrity mismatches, Moshe Katsav, Bill Clinton, Terje Roed-Larson, and Ariel Sharon for what turned out to be a moving event. If little else, these men share an admiration for Peres in which we join. Outside the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, where the day's formal festivities were held, protesters called for bringing the "Oslo criminals" to justice. No Israeli newspaper has been more steadfast in its opposition to...