Killers of Rubin and Amichai are PA 'Policemen'
(IsraelNN.com) The terrorists who killed two young Jewish men at Nahal Telem last Friday turned themselves in to the General PA Intelligence Wing in Hevron a few hours later, the Shabak has revealed. The two belong to Mahmoud Abass's Fatah movement, and are directly linked to the PA security forces, the Shabak has reported.
The Shabak investigation determined that the terrorists are Ali A Hamid Dandis, 24, of Hevron, who was in touch with the PA's General Intelligence, and Amar Badr a Halim Taha, 26, a Fatah gunman and a member of the PA's "National Security' force.
The terror attack was pre-planned and its purpose was to kill hikers and steal their weapons.
Print'Murderers of Rubin and Amihai members of PA security'
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 1, 2008 As first published in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, one of the terrorists who killed two Israeli soldiers on Friday near Hebron is a policeman in the Palestinian National Security Force, and the other is a known Fatah operative and a close associate of the Palestinian Intelligence Service, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) revealed Tuesday night.
According to details of the murder of off-duty soldiers David Rubin and Ahikam Amihai, the gunmen, Ali Dandis, 24, and Amar Taha, 26, surrendered on the day of the attack to the Palestinian security forces in Hebron out of fear that they would be caught by the IDF. They also handed over the soldiers' weapons.
Dandis worked as a clerk at the Sharia courts in Hebron. Both are residents of the West Bank city, security officials said. They noted that Friday's attack was not the first time that Palestinian security officials or policemen were involved in terror attacks. Last month, Ido Zoldan was gunned down in the West Bank by Palestinian terrorists that turned out to be members of the PA security forces.
The PA did not report the surrendering of the terrorists, the Shin Bet said. After learning of their surrender, the security agency transferred a request to the PA asking that they transfer to Israel the murder weapons and the weapons of those who were murdered. In response to the demand, PA officials confirmed that the two had surrendered and were being interrogated.
All of the weapons were transferred to Israel on Saturday.
Security officials said the attack was premeditated and its goal was to kill the hikers and steal their weapons. Security officials said that declarations in the media by Palestinian officials to the effect that the incident was of a criminal nature were in direct contradiction to the findings on the scene, as well as to the confessions of the terrorists themselves.
The declarations, they said, were likely intended by the PA to skirt responsibility for the incident, particularly because the terrorists were Fatah operatives and members of the PA security forces.
Khaled Abu Toameh contributed to this report
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