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SUICIDE BOMBING DIRECTED FROM OUTSIDE ISRAEL BY HIZBALLAH!

UPDATE DETAILS TO PREVIOUS SUICIDE BLOG

April 18, 2006

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The bomber was 16 years old, five years younger than initially listed as age 21. The following report from DEBKAfile sheds some new light on the earlier initial reports, and traces the Islamic Jihad act back to the terror army Hizballah in southern Lebanon, which is funded by Iran.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Hizballah’s Gaza-based 1800 Forward Command orchestrated the massive Tel Aviv suicide bombing that left 9 dead, 65 injured Monday

April 18, 2006, 12:12 AM (GMT+02:00)

Hizballah’s 1800 Forward Command’s mission was set up to design “quality” terror attacks against Israel.

DEBKAfile’s exclusive counter-terror sources reveal: The Tel Aviv attack was originally planned for Saturday or Sunday, April 15-16, to coincide with the finale of the three-day Tehran conference in support of the Palestinian cause. The last pieces were put in place at a four-way meeting last week in the Iranian capital between the Damascus-based Jihad Islami chief Ramadan Shalah, the Jihad Islami Gaza commander Mohammad al Hindi, the Hizballah second-in-command Sheik Ali Qassem and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief of the al Quds Brigades and Middle East terror networks, General Kasim Suleimani.

The bombing attack at the old Tel Aviv bus terminal Monday was the first suicide strike against Israel to be planned outside Palestinian territory. While from last week, Israeli security forces had more than 70 terror threats in hand, they had no advance intelligence of this one. Hours later, Israeli interrogators were still groping in the dark for the full shape of the conspiracy.

Israel’s counter-intelligence services had never heard name of the Jihad Islami suicide bomber, Sami Salim Mohammed Hammed, 16, from Tubas, although they were familiar with the network which ran him. They assume he was kept out of sight by Hizballah agents,

who went to the West Bank to choose and prepare him for the mission, well away from Israel’s ears and eyes in the Palestinian territory. Hammed’s departure from his home last Tuesday or Wednesday, April 12-13, was therefore unnoticed.

Five hours after the blast in Tel Aviv, Israel forces surrounded Tubas, where they assume he was trained, and carried out arrests.

Israeli investigations soon uncovered the fact that the al Aqsa Suicide Brigades of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah had pre -knowledge

– if not more – of the Tel Aviv attack.

They keep cells in touch with Hizballah agents.

For this attack, they are believed to have been asked

to aid in the transp ortation of the bomber to a point close to his Tel Aviv target,

or possibly all the way there.

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SUICIDE BOMBING – Hamas is Now on the Inside Looking Out!

Hamas is Now on the Inside Looking Out – And the View is Different!

April 17, 2006

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At the Noon issuance of this Blog, the Tel Aviv casualty toll had

risen to nine dead and 65 injured (15 seriously and one critically), and Islamic Jihad had taken credit for the suicide bombing. That is an update to the initial Jerusalem Post report which follows.

It was quite different for Hamas when they were part of the big three terror bands. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al Alsa Martyrs Brigades were like rabid rabbits, hopping here and there performing terror acts that kept corrupt Yassar Arafat and then Abbas, in hot water because they had no control over any of the three groups, and very little over Fatah, their own branch of terror activities.

I have constantly maintained, since the first Camp David side show put forward by Clinton, Rabin, and Arafat, that Arafat would never be able to control the terrorist groups in Israel, and could not even maintain full control over his own Fatah, and that the same

would be true with Abbas. Now we find Hamas, a rabid rabbit, trying to control Islamic Jihad, al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, and Fatah, with very little success. It is no longer on the outside looking in and snipping the PA, it is the PA on the inside looking out.

Now that some of the rabid Islamic nations are having to shell out the dough-ray-me to keep Hamas afloat, and since they also fund the terror groups Hamas cannot control, I believe closed door cessions between the terror funding countries, Hamas, Fatah, al Alsa Martyrs Brigades, and Islamic Jihad, will convince them a hudna (truce) is in order until Hamas strengthens its governmental position. The IDF is perfectly able to storm into Gaza and the West Bank in invasion mode and smash the Hamas into a pile of sawdust at the present time, which they will do if the terror homicide bombings continue. All the Islamic countries are well aware of this, which I think will lead to a false temporary peace in the form of a hudna (indefinite truce).

The following usurps from the Jerusalem Post give the early account of the Monday afternoon homicide bomber att

ack in Tel Aviv.

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Olmert: ‘We Will Know How to Respond, We Know what to Do’

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

April 17, 2006

The prevailing Pessah calm was destroyed shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday afternoon when a suicide bombing rocked Tel Aviv’s Neve Sha’anan neighborhood, near the old central bus station.

At least eight people were reported killed, not including the suicide bomber, and at least 60 were wounded, two critically and 15 seriously, as a result of the blast.

Magen David Adom ambulances evacuated the wounded to Tel Hashomer and Ichilov Hospitals in Tel Aviv, Wolfson Hospital in Holon, and Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. Two children were lightly wounded as well.

This was the second suicide attack to take place at Falafel Rosh Ha’ir (Mayor’s Falafel) restaurant, which was targeted four months ago by a suicide bomber from the Islamic Jihad, who together with the Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack in a video released to Palestinian television.

An eyewitness said that he had seen a security guard stop and search a young man, later identified by Islamic Ji

had as Sami Salim Mohammed Hammed, from the West Bank town of Jenin.

Hammed, according to the witness, detonated a bag at the entrance to the restaurant just prior to the blast.

Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responded to the first terror attack of his short tenure by saying that, “We will know how to respond.

We know what to do.”

Olmert said that Israel was investigating what exactly had occurred and who was responsible, and also wished a speedy recovery to the wounded and condolences to the families of victims.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas denounced the attack, saying it harmed Palestinian interests, while Palestinians sources have reported that a large IDF force has entered the West Bank city of Nablus in response to the terror attack.

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The Islamic Jihad revealed that the bomber who detonated himself was 21 year old Sami Salim Mahammed Hammed, who was from Jenin in the West Bank.

During the heyday of terror homicide bombings, all

of the big three terror groups were competing to see who could do the best and the most bombings.

Hamas is now on the inside looking out, and the other two rapid rabbits are on the outside looking in.

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Middle East Mess Seems Headed for a 2008 to 2012 Showdown!

April 17, 2006

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The dates I find flying around the Middle East, as to projections when a condition for an attack against Israel by Islamic forces is likely to occur, all seem to come to completion about 2008, which would correlate with my guesstimate of the attack occurring at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.

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Iran Flaunts Low-Level Enrichment to Conceal High-Powered Weaponizaton Plant

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

April 14, 2006

Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim of Iranian success in low-level uranium enrichment was more bombastic than frank.

Before springing his disclosure at a sacred mausoleum in the northern town of Mashhad on April 11, DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources disclose he paid a stealthy visit to Neyshabour in Khorassan, 38 kms to the southeast.

There, he inspected a project he omitted to mention in his Mashhad speech about low-level enrichment, namely, a top-secret plant under construction that is designed to run 155,000 centrifuges, enough to enrich uranium for 3-5 nuclear bombs a year.

This is Project B, or the hidden face of the enrichment plant open to inspection at Natanz.

This plant, due for completion next October, is scheduled to go on line at the end of 2007.

According to our intelligence sources, running-in has begun at some sections of the Neyshabour install

ation, which is located 600 km northeast of Tehran. DEBKAfile’s sources reveal too that the Neyshabour plant has been built 150 m deep under farmland covered with mixed vegetable crops and dubbed Shahid Moradian, in the name of a war martyr as obscure as its existence.

Already hard at work at Iran’s most ambitious nuclear project are hundreds of Iranian engineers, experts and assistants under the instruction of foreign specialists in the technology of centrifuge operation.

Neyshabour is guarded day and night by the special Revolutionary Guards Corps elite Ansar al-Mahdi unit.

In Moscow Thursday, April 13, US assistant secretary of state on arms control Stephen Rademaker calculated that, with 54,000 centrifuges, the Iranians could produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb in 16 days.

He was referring to the statement by Iran’s deputy nuclear chief Mohammed Saeed, who said his government planned to expand its enrichment program to 54,000 centrifuges from the 164 used in the small scale process announced Tuesday.

According to this reckoning, the Neshabour installation, when ready to go in three years, will have three times the capacity of Natanz and be able to turn out 9-15 bombs a year.

The clerical rulers in Tehran have long suspected the Americans or Israelis would eventually bomb Natanz out of existence.

Therefore, four years ago, they began constructing its mirror – albeit on a far larger scale – in order to push ahead uninterrupted with enrichment for weapons, regardless of objections from the West, Israel and Arab neighbors.

Russian experts completed the initial plans in 2003 and construction began in early 2004.

In late 2005, Bulgarian transport planes delivered tens of thousands of centrifuges from Belarus and Ukraine; they were transported directly to Neyshabour. In January 2006, 23 Ukrainian engineers arrived to start installing the equipment, joined in February by 46 Belarusian nuclear experts who are working in shifts to prepare the 155,000 P-1 and P-2 centrifuges for operation.

This compares with 60,000 in Nathanz – of which 40,000 are accessible for inspection while 20,000 are hidden in closed subterranean chambers.

Neyshabour, however, still needs to undergo experimental stages, according to our Iranian sources. It is far from sure that the Ukrainian and Belarusian experts will be able to put together a well-synchronized centrifuge project that is workable in the long term.

The Natanz project was long slowed by serious malfunctions in running the centrifuges purchased from Pakistan. They were only partially overcome lately.

Now, Tehran needs three years to work in secret and in peace from outside interference and international inspections to achieve its first N-bomb.

Tehran’s “success” in enriching uranium, announced with fanfare last Tuesday, actually happened, according to our sources, eight months ago. Ahmadinejad timed his “disclosure” to achieve two goals:

One, as a fait accompli that would force the world to acknowledge that Iran had joined the world’s nuclear club as its eighth member, and two, to signal that the Islamic republic was close to achieving a nuclear weapon and capable of retaliating forcibly to international threats of penalties. Teheran’s grandiose war games two weeks ago were staged for the same purpose.

Russian and Chinese sources have their own interpretation of Tehran’s motives. They believe the Iranian president’s announcement was a knee-jerk reaction to the approaching UN Security Council deadline and the press reports of an approaching US military strike against its nuclear facilities. According to their theory, his bellicose stance was the prelude to a climb-down; Tehran would now announce its national objective has been accomplished and a line could be drawn on further advances.

DEBKAfile’s Iranian experts dismiss this theory as contrary to the mind-set of the Islamic republic’s rulers. They are convinced that Tehran sought the universal condemnation it encountered; it proved to the Iranian public that in a hostile world, Iran is fully justified in its go-it-alone program for arming their country with a nuclear weapon.

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H am

as to Go on New Diet Rather than Eat Crow – Cannibalism Next?

April 15, 2006

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Hamas is getting the squeeze put on it from several different directions.

Two of the major squeezes involve lack of money to run the Palestinian government it operates, and the realization that if they don’t stop the rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, currently being launched by Islamic Jihad, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, and Fatah, then the IDF is going to storm back into the Gaza Strip and clean house, which would smash their boastful claim they drove Israel out of Gaza.

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Hamas, Ahmadinejad Host PA Fundraising Conference

Associated Press and JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

April 14, 2006

Hamas and Islamic Jihad representatives met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

and Hizbullah members in Teheran on Friday in a conference aimed at raising funds for the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

Opening the conference, Ahmadinejad fired a series of verbal shots at Israel, saying it was a “permanent threat” to the Middle East that will “soon” be liberated, and questioning the validity of the Nazi Holocaust against Jews in World War II.

“Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihiliation,” Ahmadinejad said. “The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm,” he said.

One of the conference organizers’ Mahmoud Muhammadi called upon all Muslim nations to come to the Palestinians’ aid, especially following the decision by both the United States and the European Union to cut direct aid from the Palestinians.

In spite of the PA’s dire economic state, PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday that the suspension of Western aid to the Palestinian Authority would not bring down his government nor cow the Palestinian people.

“The Palestinian people will not give up their government no matter how many sacrifices we have to make.

We are prepared to eat salt and olives,” he told supporters in a speech after Friday prayers.

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The proud leader of Hamas reaffirmed today that Hamas would never recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist in Israel.

Salt and raw olives – What a horrible thought, but I love it for them. Roast crow was a delicacy the year I was born (1932), it tasted pretty good with corn bread and “pot liquor” (juice from “polk” salad). M aybe H

amas can find a vulture or two to fry, but then, that would be cannibalism.

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Al Qaeda Surrounding the Borders of Israel and Slipping into the West Bank and Gaza Strip!

April 15, 2006

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Al Qaeda is continually strengthening its positions immediately to the north of Israel in southern Lebanon and Syria, to the southwest in the Gaza Strip, and to the east in Jordan. With the passage of time, more and more of its small advance cells will slowly be able to seep into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The two articles which follow, one by Alex Fishman (Yediot Ahronot), and one by Olivier Guitta (TCS Daily), show the continuing efforts of Al Qaeda to build a network of terror cells along Israel’s exterior borders, and the initial stages of the creation of small cells inside Israel’s security barrier being completed around the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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“Al-Qaeda Moving into Israel’s Neighbors”

Interview with Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin

By Alex Fishman (Yediot Ahronot-Hebrew)

April 12, 2006

“We see an increase in the importance which al-Qaeda attaches to

the Arab states surrounding Israel.

There are al-Qaeda cells in all these countries and their purpose is to try to overthrow the regimes and attack Israel,” said Israel’s Chief of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin.

Al-Qaeda’s Master Plan

By Olivier Guitta (Tech Central Station Daily)

Signs of al-Qaeda’s infiltration in the Palestinian territories have been increasing in

the past few months.

Ely Karmon at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) confirmed that al-Qaeda members who remained in the Sinai Peninsula after the Sharm El Sheikh terror attacks of July 2005 then started to move towards Gaza and the West Bank after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.

The UAE daily Al Ittihad reports that a thus-far unknown Palestinian group, “The Army of Jihad,” has been sending messages to foreign diplomats in Gaza demanding that all non-Muslim

foreigners must leave.

According to the news website Proche-Orient.info, France has quietly asked that all its citizens leave Gaza and the West Bank (and apparently they have).

End the Two Articles

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