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>JN Sept. 7, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 165
Mubarak Wounded in Assassination Try
By VOA
In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak has been slightly wounded in an attack against his motorcade. A security officer also is reported to have been slightly injured in the incident, in which the attacker was shot dead. The attack came as the Egyptian president waved from his car window to a crowd in the northeastern city of Port Said. Security guards opened fire and the assailant was hit several times.
Israeli Arabs Arrested in Connection with Car Bombings
By Meredith Buel (VOA-Jerusalem) & IsraelWire
Israeli police have arrested at least five suspects in connection
with car bombs that killed three-people and injured four others
Sunday. Israeli police are increasing security, setting up
roadblocks, and warning the public to be alert for suspicious
objects after two car bombs exploded.
Both Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Chairman
Yasir Arafat condemned the blasts, and both sides signaled
peace-making efforts would remain on track.
The explosions came less than one day after the two leaders signed
a new agreement to implement the Wye River peace accords and begin
negotiations on a permanent peace agreement between Israel and the
Palestinians. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the
bombings.
The blasts occurred Sunday in the cities of Tiberias, a holiday
resort on the Sea of Galilee, and Haifa, a sprawling port city on
the Mediterranean. Both bombs apparently exploded prematurely,
killing the occupants of the two cars.
Police say the nearly simultaneous bombings indicated a coordinated
attack aimed at derailing the peace process. The bombings are a
vivid reminder of terrifying public attacks that have in the past
accompanied progress in peace negotiations.
Police and security agencies report a gag order remains in effect
in Israel regarding the publication of details. Police have
confirmed the arrest of five suspects but would not release their
nationality or any other details surrounding the investigation.
The first car bomb exploded in Tiberias at about 5:40 p.m. Sunday
with the second blast taking place about 30 minutes later in Haifa,
about 60 miles west of Tiberias.
In the first attack, two persons were killed, presumably the
terrorists. According to a Channel One Television report Monday
evening, it is now being theorized that the terrorists most likely
planned to park the car containing some 33 pounds of explosives and
were not intending to carry out a suicide attack.
According to the son of the critically injured victim, Hanna
Vaknin, 73, his mother was returning from the post office when
she stepped into the street and caused the Fiat Uno containing the
explosives to brake, probably jarring something and setting off the
blast. Hanna was about 6.5 feet from the car when the blast ripped
through Tiberias' Elhadit Street. The son stated that it was ironic
but his mother being so seriously injured may have saved many other
lives by prematurely setting of the booby-trapped vehicle.
The Haifa blast claimed the life of the car's occupant(s),
presumably the terrorist(s). Channel One reported Sunday evening
that the remains were so charred and entangled in the wreckage, it
is still unknown if there were one or two occupants in the car. In
the case of the Haifa bombing, the car was near an empty lot and
here too, the supposition remains that the car was to have been
prepared for an attack elsewhere and it was not a premeditated
suicide attack.
According to unconfirmed reports from foreign news agencies, two of
the men killed in the blasts were from the Israeli Arab village of
Daburiya, near Tiberias. Village residents are reporting that the
parents of the suspected terrorists were taken for DNA testing in
an attempt to confirm the identities of the charred remains.
A resident named the two suspects as Amir Masalcha, 24, and Jad
Azaiza, 23, both members of the Israel Islamic Movement according
to Reuters. Police are not releasing or confirming any information
surrounding the ongoing investigation other than five persons
remain in custody.
Albright Won't Meet Mom of US Teen Murdered by Terrorists
By IsraelWire
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has refused to meet or even speak by telephone with the mother of an American-Israeli teenager who was murdered by Arab terrorists.
Albright has for the second time in 11 months, refused to meet with
Joyce Boim, a US citizen and mother of 17 year-old terror victim
David Boim. Mrs. Boim wanted to discuss the issue of Yasir Arafat
sheltering 23 Arab terrorists involved in attacks in which 12
Americans were murdered in Israel since the signing of the Oslo
accords in 1993.
David Boim, a dual American-Israeli citizen from New York, was
killed by Arab terrorists near Bet El on May 13, 1996. The Israeli
government identified Imjad Hinawi, a resident of PLO Authority
autonomous city of Jericho as a prime suspect, and on Sept. 17,
1997, Israel asked the PA to extradite Hinawi, but the PA ignored
the request.
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