INJURED PALESTINIAN TIED TO 3 SUICIDE BOMBINGS.Byline: Serge Schmemann Serge Schmemann (born April 12, 1945) is a writer and Editorial Page Editor of the International Herald Tribune. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Associated Press and was a bureau chief and editor for the New York Times. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Israeli officials said Saturday that a Palestinian shot and wounded Friday in Hebron was a top Islamic guerrilla who masterminded three of the suicide bombings earlier this year. The guerrilla was identified as Hassan Salameh, whom Israeli army spokesmen described as deputy commander of the Qassam military wing of Hamas, the militant Islamic organization. The commander, Mohammed Dief, one of the Palestinian guerrillas most wanted Most Wanted may refer to:
According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Israeli army spokesmen, Salameh was captured after the van he was riding in was stopped for a search. They said Salameh bolted and soldiers shot him in the back, but he still managed to get away. He was found soon afterward at the nearby Alia Hospital in Hebron, where other Palestinians had evidently taken him. After surgery there, he was transferred under heavy guard to an Israeli hospital. Israeli radio said security forces arrested six Palestinians on Saturday on suspicion of helping Salameh. The broadcast said Salameh was the mastermind behind three of the four suicide bombings that killed more than 60 people and created a crisis for the Israeli government. They said Salameh was responsible for the suicide bombings of two Jerusalem buses Feb. 25 and March 3, and of an attack on a bus stop in Ashkelon on Feb. 25. The fourth attack, in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest on March 4, was purportedly by another group, the Islamic Holy War. According to the army, Salameh underwent training in Sudan last year before returning to the Gaza Strip Gaza Strip (gäz`ə), (2003 est. pop. 1,330,000) rectangular coastal area, c.140 sq mi (370 sq km), SW Asia, on the Mediterranean Sea adjoining Egypt and Israel, in what was formerly SW Palestine. . The army said he had planned to attack settlers in Hebron on Israeli independence day, April 24, but Israeli security forces For the purposes of Wikipedia, the ambiguous term Israeli Security Forces is used to describe a group of organizations which are charged with the preservation of Israel's territory and civilian public. prevented him from carrying out the attack. Israeli Radio said Salameh was riding in a van with another man, Razil Rajoub, who did not resist the search. Rajoub was described as a relative of Jibrik Rajoub, head of Palestinian security services in the West Bank. Israeli and Palestinian security forces Palestinian Security Forces provides security to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). The PNF consists of:
The Israeli military withdrawal from Hebron was to have been completed in March, but Prime Minister Shimon Peres postponed it until after the elections as a safeguard against clashes between the Arab population and the militant Jews who live in an enclave in the center of the city. As an additional safeguard against trouble, Norwegian observers moved into Hebron last week. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Hassan Salameh, described as the No. 2 leader in the military wing of Hamas, recovers in a Jerusalem hospital Saturday. Associated Press |
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