To: lorne who wrote (5313 ) 2/26/2007 7:39:41 PM From: Proud_Infidel Respond to of 20106 Suicide Bombing, Stabbing Averted, Kidnapped US Women Freed By Amihai Zipporinfoisrael.net (IHC News, 21 February 2007) Police who acted on intelligence information that an attack in central Israel was imminent, caught a would-be suicide bomber and his accomplices in southern Tel Aviv Tuesday night, 21, February 2007. After finding his bomb in a Rishon Letzion dumpster, authorities were unsure why the terrorist, 24 year-old Omar Ahmed Abu al-Rob of the Palestinian village of Jalbun, located on the other side of the security barrier had not carried out his mission. The episode ended an apprehensive evening for the public who were told to be on alert for suspicious activity. On Wednesday, undercover units working in Jenin went after the head of the terror cell that sent Abu al-Rob on his deadly mission, killing 24 year-old Islamic Jihad leader Mahmoud Abu Ubayed. Islamic Jihad said it would respond to the IDF’s actions. The attempted suicide bombing followed a tense afternoon in which three American women were kidnapped by terrorists outside a Palestinian town near Shechem (Nablus). The Associated Press received a call from a man named Hadi Saud, saying he would exchange the woman for a job and treatment for a gunshot wound sustained last year. Though the US Consulate in Jerusalem said they were taking the threat to the woman’s lives “extremely seriously,” by evening Shechem Governor Kamal el-Sheikh said the girls had been released to him. Abductions of foreigners are common in Gaza and Palestinian areas in Judea and Samaria. The terrorists usually let them go soon afterwards, unless they hold Israeli ID cards. Meanwhile, several other terror-related incidents occurred in the last few days. They include: The shooting on Tuesday by a Palestinian terrorist of a man working on the border/security fence near the Kalandiya checkpoint. The man was evacuated for care after being wounded. The attempted stabbing attack on Tuesday at a hitchhiking post in Gush Etzion. Police and IDF soldiers foiled the attack before the twenty-eight year-old Palestinian from the town of Beit Pajir could carry out his pplans. The destruction of Psalm books across the road near the Sephardic cemetery in Hebron. It was the second such incident there this month. Israelnationalnews.com reported the tomb of Ruth and Jesse was vandalized. The perpetrators robbed the charity boxes and tried to steal the Torah scrolls in the ark.