IDF kills 5 Tanzim members; Gaza Hizbullah cell arrested

[JohnLocke]

IDF kills 5 Tanzim members; Gaza Hizbullah cell arrested
by Margot Dudkevitch -- Jerusalem Post
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
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Five armed Tanzim fugitives were killed in a gun battle with undercover border police in Jenin on Wednesday afternoon.
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The Jenin raid by undercover border police was to arrest fugitives. In the morning, security forces searched a number of houses and surrounded several buildings. In the afternoon, the vehicle in which the five fugitives were riding was stopped for inspection. The fugitives opened fire at the troops who shot and killed them.
The five were identified as Iman Sabahna, Amer Sakel Katsrawi, Muhammad Khairala, Ihab Abu Jafer, and Bassem al-Mahdi. Officials said they had been involved in numerous shooting attacks against civilians and soldiers. The car they used had been stolen in Afula, officials said.
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The founder of the group, Shadi Abu al-Hatsin, 23, was arrested in December. He was born in Yemen and 10 years ago moved with his mother and brothers to the Gaza Strip.
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In the Gaza Strip, he learned to make bombs, manufacture rockets, and fire weapons by studying Web sites and from members of the Palestinian Authority security services.
At the technological college in Khan Yunis, he studied biochemistry, physics, and mechanics, all of which helped him in weapons making. Influenced by programs broadcast on the Hizbullah satellite station, he decided to sign up and in 2000 made contacts with the movement via his uncle Hassan Dukmak, a Hizbullah member who lives in Lebanon.
At first, he received large sums of Hizbullah money sent by his uncle to fund the cell's activities. Later he received the names of other Hizbullah operatives whom he contacted via e-mail.
Hatsin told investigators cell members had been involved in a number of shooting and rocket attacks.
He also revealed meeting with Wassim Masrouja, 23, a Hizbullah agent who was sent to the Gaza Strip to assist in training cell members. He was arrested by security forces in November as he attempted to return to Lebanon. He also tried twice last year to send members abroad to Lebanon to undergo military training in Hizbullah camps.
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[drdon326]

1. What a horrible loss. lol

If it involves Jenin , we can expect Saeb "Killing Fields"
Earkat to give his usual rantings anytime now.

So what do these 5 thugs and Abu Abbas talking about now ?


Great work again by the IDF.

[beanball]

2. The IDF

when will the American people wake up and realize we are backing a bunch of blood thirsty land grabbers.We shouls tell the Sharon thugs we are going to keep our money and we no longer will use our veto,that allows them to do as they please.That will proberly cause Mr Sharon and his Likud killers to rethink what they are going to innocent people in the middle east,we would proberly cause them to sit down and listen to world openion on what they have been doing for years without any criticism from the American government regardless of the party in power.We need a person in the white house who will stand up to the lobbists for Isreal,tell them we are going to do whats best for the American people,not whats best for Isreal.When we have such a leader in place both sides will sit down and reason together and maybe just maybe we will have peace in the middle east.

[JohnLocke]

3. Nice tirade.

Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the article.

[Resistance]

5. neither does your response

[_Jumper_]

4. You made some good points

But why post that in a thread about good news?

[JohnLocke]

6. Kick (nt).