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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (483)	11/21/2001 9:59:08 AM
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Twelve years later, security forces settle scores with Hamas terrorist By Ellis Shuman November 20, 2001 An elite IDF Golani commando unit captured Abed Rabbo Abu Husa, a senior Hamas militant suspected of having masterminded the kidnapping and killing of two IDF soldiers, Avi Sasportas and Ilan Sa'adon, in 1989. The operation, which was carefully planned and repeatedly postponed, was one of the IDF's few over-the-border raids in the Gaza Strip in recent years. According to media reports, the IDF received specific intelligence information from the Israel Security Agency (ISA) that Abu Husa was due to arrive early Monday morning at his home in the Sajaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, less than a mile from the Israeli border. The IDF force prepared an ambush for Abu Husa, and when he showed up they apprehended him without a struggle. He was then quickly transported back into Israeli-controlled territory and turned over to the ISA for questioning. Abu Husa's cousin Muhammad told the Associated Press that about 25 uniformed soldiers broke into the house, locked the family in one room, confiscated their mobile phone and searched the premises for three hours. Abu Husa, 43, was wanted by Israel as a suspect in shooting attacks and for the murder of Sasportas and Sa'adon. Sgt. Avi Sasportas was kidnapped on February 16, 1989, while hitchhiking from his base to his home in Ashdod. Sgt. Ilan Sa'adon was abducted on May 3, 1989, while hitchhiking near Ashkelon. During the IDF search for Sa'adon, Sasportas's body was discovered not far from where he was kidnapped. Sa'adon's body was only recovered seven years later after Israel received intelligence reports regarding its location. Abu Husa reportedly escaped to Egypt and only returned to the Gaza Strip in 1994. He was appointed to an official position in the Palestinian security forces and continued his Hamas military activities in parallel, military sources reported. He was instrumental in establishing the Hamas's Izzadin al-Qassam military brigade and was closely associated with "most wanted" Hamas terrorist Muhammed Deif, Maariv reported. Over the years the ISA continued to collect information as to Abu Husa's whereabouts, in preparation for a chance to "settle accounts" with him. The abduction was planned over the course of the last few months, and was postponed a number of times due to the need to send an Israeli force deep into Palestinian territory, Maariv said. Israeli security officials are hopeful that Abu Husa's capture will supply the ISA with a wealth of intelligence information. The abduction of Abu Husa showed that Israel's security forces "never forget and never rest," the Jerusalem Post reported. "Twelve years I have been waiting for them to find the murderers," said Gilbert Sa'adon, the mother of Ilan. "They should not put him in jail. He should be executed just like he and his friends executed our children." "The fact that they found his killer does not make us smile," said Yaakov Sasportas, father of Avi. "It just brings back the difficult period and the pain remains the same." The IDF stages fewer capture and/or assassination operations in the Gaza Strip than on the West Bank because an electronic fence around Gaza lessens the likelihood of terrorist infiltration there, Ha'aretz reported. A senior IDF commander in the region said the concept of "targeted interceptions" was not used in the Gaza Strip because it required concentrated efforts, the Jerusalem Post reported. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer yesterday told members of the Labor Party that Israeli security forces had managed to thwart "90 percent of the attacks that were intended for Israeli population centers." He said that the "relative quiet in recent days has not derived from efforts made by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to thwart terror. Instead, it results from efforts made by the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet security service and the police." Additional recent arrests of Palestinian terrorists announced Yesterday the Prime Minister's Media Advisor announced a number of other recent arrests by security forces, most of them low-level terrorist operatives. Aref Bisharat, 18, a resident of the village of Tamoun in Samaria was arrested by the ISA in coordination with the Border Police. Bisharat was allegedly recruited by the Islamic Jihad to carry out terrorist operations. Under questioning, he reportedly admitted to having ties with Islamic Jihad operatives, helping them to plan a suicide attack in Israel and dispatching a terrorist to carry out an attack on an Israeli bus in August. Assad Bedi'a, 21, from the village of Kafin in Samaria, was arrested by the ISA in coordination with the Border Police. Bedi'a was allegedly involved in attempts to plant a bomb near Katzir. After his arrest, he disclosed the whereabouts of the explosive charge, which was subsequently defused by bomb disposal experts. Amjed Mohammed Kamal Roushdi al-Bakri was arrested by the ISA at the Allenby border crossing on September 18. During questioning, al-Bakri reportedly admitted that he had been recruited by the Abu-Moussa splinter group of the Fatah. During the summer he underwent weapons and explosives training in Damascus, and he was arrested as he attempted to return to the West Bank. israelinsider.com