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Fatah members sought to assassinate Olmert


I heard it this evening from Micah Halpern at an event I attended on behalf of an amazing woman and Israel Bond fundraising. He was concerned that the Plain Dealer might not cover it but I guess we won’t know until tomorrow morning.

Here’s the latest from Ha’aretz but a search turns up hundreds of other sources if you want to read someone else’s report:

The Palestinian militants suspected of plotting to attack Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s convoy earlier this year were arrested for a second time on Friday and will face a military trial, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Sunday.

Olmert said Sunday that Israel would “not look the other way” on a plot by a terrorist cell from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction to attack his convoy this past summer in the West Bank city of Jericho.

Meanwhile, the spokesman of Fatah’s central committee was quoted by Army Radio calling the plot to assassinate Olmert an “Israeli fabrication and lie designated to quash Abu Mazen’s [Abbas'] efforts to reach peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”

Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told cabinet members on Sunday the Fatah cell had planned to carry out the attack as the convoy entered the West Bank city on August 6, en route to the prime minister’s meeting with Abbas.

Israeli security sources said the cell planned to fire on the convoy, and had made preliminary preparations for the attack, which primarily included intelligence gathering.

According to the sources, the terrorists were members of the PA security forces, and therefore knew the convoy’s route as well as security arrangements.

While others want to obsess about which politician has worse impulse control, this kind of crap is going on. Concerned about how my lack of outrage over a lack of impulse control that gets displayed by U.S. elected officials reinforces their childish behavior? Yeah – right now, I’m not too concerned about anyone’s concern for my lack of concern over those politicians’ behavior. Or anyone’s obsessions as to why I won’t name call.

Talk about what’s important.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:15 pm October 21st, 2007 in Foreign Affairs 

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