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>JN June 15, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 100
Fatal Shooting During Israeli-Palestinian Cease-fire
By VOA News
An Israeli security officer and a Palestinian man have been shot dead during an incident marring the new U.S. brokered cease-fire.
A Palestinian gunman fired into a car in the West Bank, killing the army intelligence officer and wounding a bodyguard who shot back and killed the attacker.
Palestinian security officials say the gunman had collaborated with Israeli intelligence and that the slain officer was his Israeli handler. The two men apparently had an appointment.
In other incidents, the Israeli army says Palestinians fired mortar bombs at two Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, but caused no casualties. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have started to ease some roadblocks in the occupied territories in a step to implement the cease-fire plan hammered-out by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet.
Israeli tanks pulled back from main road junctions near Jewish settlements in central Gaza, allowing Palestinian traffic to move more easily on the main north-south highway. There were similar pull-backs in some West Bank areas. Israel also has reopened the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza.
Wednesday night, a Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded during a drive-by shooting in the West Bank. Palestinians blamed the attack on Jewish settlers. An Israeli general said he thinks the shooters were Palestinians who mis-identified their target.
News reports of the cease-fire agreement say the Palestinians must arrest militants planning attacks, confiscate illegal weapons like mortars, stop incitement and resume security cooperation with Israel.
The Israelis must pull back heavy weapons, lift the blockade of Palestinian areas, refrain from attacking Palestinian institutions and civilian areas and use non-lethal methods to deal with demonstations.
Powell Calls for Maximum Effort to Implement Cease-fire
By VOA News
Secretary of State Colin Powell says Israel and the Palestinians must make a 100 percent effort to implement a cease-fire agreement in order to end the violence in the area. Powell made his remarks Wednesday during a meeting in Brussels with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The two met on the sidelines of the NATO Summit. Powell also spoke by telephone to Palestinian Leader Yasir Arafat.
In both conversations, U.S. officials said Powell discussed the cease-fire and ways to implement some of the confidence-building measures outlined in the report by an international committee headed by former Sen. George Mitchell.
The U.S. cease-fire plan is aimed at bringing the peace process back to the point in September 2000 where negotiations between the two sides abruptly broke off, prior to the outbreak of violence that has continued for nearly nine months.
PA Interfered with Israeli Elections
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Israeli security services announced the arrest of a Palestinian intelligence officer last week in the Negev. The officer, who was armed with a pistol at the time of his arrest, intended to kidnap an Israeli in the south of the country.
PA officer Ahed Haj Ahmad Mohammad Al-Akbi, in charge of "Bedouin Affairs" for the PLO, told the GSS that he planned to kidnap and Israeli citizen and bring him to the PLO's intelligence interrogation facility in Dahariya.
Al-Akbi told his interrogators that in line with his position, he would routinely interrogate members of the Negev Bedouin community to remain abreast of affairs in that community. He also told the GSS that he was ordered to gather intelligence information dealing with Israel's 1996 and 1999 national elections. Al-Akbi said that in one case, a senior PA official offered a large unspecified sum of money to a candidate to persuade him to withdraw from the Knesset race to clear the way for another candidate.
Al Akbi added that he was also appointed by a senior PA figure to gather information among Israeli Arabs in connection to the elections. In addition, the same senior PA figure also started an initiative to "convince" a candidate for Prime Minister to drop out of the race because of the PA's interest in the victory of a different candidate.
Computer Hacker 'Analyzer' Sentenced
By Israel Faxx Staff
Ehud Tannenbaum, 21, was sentenced Thursday to six months of community service and fined NIS 75,000 (about $19,000). Tannenbaum, whose computer hacker name was "The Analyzer," was convicted after confessing to conspiracy, wrongful infiltration of computerized material, disruption of computer use and destroying evidence. He had been convicted for breaking into official American organizational computer systems, including the Defense Department, the Air Force and the Navy, as well as Knesset and IDF computer systems.
Tannenbaum, who began using computers while still in elementary school, was arrested in March 1998 after American authorities sent reports on him to the Israeli police. He was arrested with four other young people who knew Tannenbaum through the Internet.
They broke into the Pentagon computers in summer 1997 and at first Defense Department officials believed it was the Iraqis who were damaging their computers. American intelligence suspected that an official Israeli organization was behind "The Analyzer's" work.
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