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Yaacov Taitel, father of 4, arrested for suspected terrorist attacks on Arabs and Jews

DEBKAfile Special Report

November 6, 2009, 1:59 AM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile reports that at the end of a 12-year search, the police and Shin Bet finally caught up with the Yaacov Taitel, 37, from Shevut Rachel, whom they suspect of a long series of terrorist crimes. They arrested him in the Har Nof district of Jerusalem Oct. 9. Two of those crimes are the murders of an Arab taxi driver in June 1997 and an Arab shepherd in August of that year.
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The truth that kept Brown mum for five days on the Lockerbie bomber's release

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report

September 2, 2009, 9:12 PM (GMT+02:00)

The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly delves behind the obvious profit motive to discover what really drove the UK (and Scotland) to cut short Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrahi's life sentence for the 1998 Pan-Am bombing.

And why the furious dust-up between Washington and London?

Tese new revelations - and much more - appeared in the latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly issue out Friday.

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Two Israeli policemen injured in fourth Palestinian terror attack in 48 hours

April 20, 2009, 11:11 PM (GMT+02:00)

Saturday morning, April 18, two Israeli policemen were run down by a Palestinian vehicle at the Hizme roadblock guarding the northern entry to Jerusalem. One is in a coma.

Friday, a Palestinian set about a group of tourists on the Via Dolorosa with a knife, stabbing one in the head.
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Israeli-Arab terrorist branch of Hizballah behind failed Haifa massacre

DEBKAfile Special Report

March 27, 2009, 7:06 AM (GMT+02:00)

By a fluke, the Free Galilee Brigades failed to bring off a multiple-casualty bomb attack on the Saturday night crowds at the Haifa Lev Mifratz shopping mall on March 21. But DEBKAfile's military sources report that security officials fear that the shadowy group, based in northern Israeli Arab villages and Jerusalem, is spreading its wings after killing 12 Israelis in a string of attacks since 2003.

By good fortune, the bomb mechanism in an abandoned car failed to detonate and no-one was hurt. Had it worked, the casualty count would have run to scores.
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Large-scale car bomb attack failed in Haifa Saturday night

DEBKAfile Special Report

March 22, 2009, 8:58 AM (GMT+02:00)

A small explosion attracted police notice to a car packed with a large quantity of explosives parked outside the Lev Mifratz shopping mall in Haifa. The mall and cinemas were cleared before anyone was hurt.

An organization calling itself Galilee Brigades linked to Hizballah claimed responsibility.
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World agencies gearing up to thwart upgraded Islamist terror

April 18, 2009, 2:44 PM (GMT+02:00)

Mumbai Taj Hotel on fire

Using novel, upgraded tactics, Al Qaeda and fellow Islamist terror groups are outperforming anti-terror agencies in their attacks on targeted countries. International counter-terror agencies are worried enough to start retooling their counter-measures after viewing terrorist performances in Mumbai on Nov. 2008, killing 172 people, Lahore on March 3, causing 8 fatalities, and the Jordan Valley, shooting dead 2 Israeli policemen. India, for instance, is overhauling its special forces from top to bottom and preparing to launch the world's first anti-terror satellite RISAT 2 on short-order delivery from Israel. British intelligence and anti-terror services have embarked on a crash program to secure the G-20 summit opening in London on April 2, fearing the posh hotels hosting the leaders and their retinues are designated for a Mumbai-style massacre. Western terror experts have detected common traits in the recent spate of attacks:
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Ethnic Arab Intifada Targets Richest Iranian Oil Resource

June 14, 2005, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)

On the march against the Tehran regime since April, the ethnic Arab rebels of Iran’s southwest province of Khuzestan have for the first time struck an Iranian oil target. This attack, revealed here by DEBKAfile’s Exclusive Iranian sources, took place Wednesday, June 8. The guerrillas struck the new petrochemical installations of the Karoun Oil and Gas Production’s drilling and well services, east of the provincial capital of Ahwaz. Saturday night, June 11, President Mohammed Khatami flew in to the restive region which supplies 80% of Iran’s oil output to assess the damage. Four hours after he returned to Tehran, Arab guerrillas detonated four bombs in Ahwaz – one at least by a suicide bomber.
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Top Gaza General Leads Combined Palestinian Force in Rafah Crossing Assault

December 13, 2004, 1:13 AM (GMT+02:00)

Gaza's Palestinians join to hit Israel under military commander

A ton and a half of high explosives smashed into the Israeli military compound at the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, injuring 11 Israeli soldiers, four critically. The mighty explosion erupted from a secret 800-meter long tunnel, the longest the Palestinians have dug so far. But DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the strike against the Rafah crossing was no run-of-the-mill Palestinian terror attack such as Israel has endured for decades, but a meticulously-planned military operation in which a battalion-scale force was deployed. Sunday night, all the Palestinian terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip proved they could work together under a single commander. DEBKAfile’s military sources name him as 62-year old Khan Younes-based Palestinian brigadier general Saib Ajez, a veteran officer of the moribund commando-trained Palestinian Liberation Army and the best tactical brain the Palestinians have. He has 20,000 men under arms at his disposal
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Karni Tunnel as Hamas Hidden Arm into Israel’s Western Negev

December 11, 2004, 1:42 PM (GMT+02:00)

Unlike the rough and ready burrows that “import” most Palestinian terrorist manpower, weapons and explosives supplies from Sinai - or the hidden buried bomb craters sunk under Israeli positions - the still unfinished Karni Tunnel was built to last. Clearly designed by competent engineers, plastered reinforced concrete walls run its 300-meter length. Israeli intelligence has known about its existence for six months, but never found its location till this week. Israeli commanders and military planners ordered the hunt because of the acute danger the tunnel represents to all their counter-terror efforts in southwest Israel. Finished, the project would have run 500-600 meters, making it the longest Palestinian tunnel discovered yet. It was to have headed under the electronic security fence marking the Gaza border and come out deep inside Israeli territory.
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World Muslim Brotherhood Calls to Arms to Thwart Gaza Evacuation

July 14, 2004, 7:08 PM (GMT+02:00)

At 78, the fiery Egyptian preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi is a household name in the Muslim Arab world, commanding great respect as a leading theologian and star status for his religious phone-in program over Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arabic television station. The business that brought him to London is revealed here exclusively by DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources. The preacher placed before a World Muslim Brotherhood conference a working document drawn up at “a secret meeting of the movement” somewhere in the Middle East, calling on all brethren in the Muslim world to rise up and foil Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and, most of all, to combat any potential Egyptian or Jordanian role in its implementation. The Brotherhood was exhorted to resort “to all means available.”
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