GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Is this what they call a truce?

When will the press really start to understand that the Palestinians aren't really interested in a truce?
Security forces thwarted attempts by Islamic Jihad to launch double suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem, including one that was to have occurred Wednesday. In recent days five cell members were arrested and two explosive belts that were to have been used in the attacks were blown up by sappers.

The terrorists planned to target a coffee house, synagogue or bus in the capital's center as well as to launch an attack in the Ramot neighborhood.

Some of the cell members were previously incarcerated in Israel and released in February, however security officials stressed that it was not in the framework of the 500 released as a gesture to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "Two of the terrorists completed serving their sentences and were released," a security official told The Jerusalem Post.

Twice the terrorists attempted to smuggle suicide bombers from Samaria into Jerusalem and failed, a third attempt was planned for Thursday.

Details released by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Wednesday, revealed that in recent days its members, Jerusalem Police, IDF and undercover Border Police units arrested five Islamic Jihad members in the West Bank. Officials noted that the same infrastructure was also responsible for the Stage nightclub bomb attack in Tel Aviv in February.