'Al Qaeda in Palestine' claims attack on intelligence chief AFP May 21, 2006
<http://www.metimes.com/images/photos/full/20060521-055129-1021.jpg> ASSASSINATION BID: Israeli medics help Palestinian intelligence chief Tareq Abu Rajab at Erez crossing at the Gaza-Israel border on May 20. Rajab was badly wounded on Saturday when an elevator he was taking at his headquarters in the Gaza Strip exploded in an assassination bid. (REUTERS) _____ PARIS -- A group calling itself Al Qaeda in Palestine said it carried out a bombing against the Palestinian intelligence chief and threatened more attacks in a statement posted on the Internet on Sunday. "We declare our full responsibility for this operation," the group said in the statement, whose authenticity could not be independently verified. "Your mujahideen brothers managed to place a bomb in the special lift used by the apostate Tareq Abu Rajab ... but were hasty in detonating the device which should have been triggered once the lift door was closed." Abu Rajab, overall head of the Palestinian intelligence services, was seriously wounded and his bodyguard killed in Saturday's blast in a lift at the services' Gaza headquarters. The Internet statement also threatened other "apostate" Palestinian officials, including moderate Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and the longtime Gaza strongman of his mainstream Fatah movement, Mohammed Dahlan. A large bomb was discovered on Sunday next to the Gaza City home of Rashid Abu Shbak, the overall head of the Palestinian security services, security sources said. The 70-kilogram (150 pound) device was discovered on the road outside his home in the south of the city shortly before Abu Shbak had been due to drive to his office. Abu Shbak is one of the most powerful figures in Abbas' Fatah movement which is locked in a vicious power struggle with the radical Islamist movement Hamas which is now in government. A group proclaiming its loyalty to the Al Qaeda network of Osama Bin Laden announced its formation in the Palestinian territories in a statement received by AFP on May 8. In March, the Israeli authorities announced that they had detained two Palestinians from the West Bank city of Nablus late last year on suspicion of working for Al Qaeda in the first such arrests by Israel. Abbas said earlier the same month that his security services believed an Al Qaeda cell was operating in the Palestinian territories. General Dani Arditi, head of Israel's anti-terrorist office, said last October that Al Qaeda had infiltrated the Gaza Strip from Egypt's neighbouring Sinai Peninsula after the withdrawal of Israeli troops the previous month. http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060521-054544-6089r [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
