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East Jerusalem cell charged over killing of two Border Policemen

By Jonathan Lis, Yuval Azoulay and Ofra Edelman, Haaretz Correspondents

Tags: Border Police, Israel, Terror

Three East Jerusalem residents have been charged with orchestrating two recent terror attacks in the capital in which two Border Policemen were killed, it emerged on Wednesday.

A gag order on the case was lifted Wednesday, allowing publication of the suspects' arrest and indictment. Prosecutors filed the indictment ten days ago at Jerusalem District Court.

According to the indictment, the cell was responsible for the murder of Border Policeman Rami Zuari in a January shooting attack at the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. A Border Policewoman was also wounded in the attack.

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The suspects were also accused of perpetrating the shooting attack in July at the Lion's Gate
entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, where Border Policeman David Shriki suffered wounds to which he later succumbed some two weeks later. In that attack too, another Border Policeman was hurt.

Following the attacks, the Shin Bet security service and Jerusalem police launched an investigation that led to the arrest of the cell's leader, Mohammed Khalil Adnan Abu-Sneina.

A search of the 21-year-old's home in the Anata neighborhood of Jerusalem revealed three handguns, knives and electric stunguns. The investigation also revealed that Abu-Sneina planned the attacks while touring the city on breaks from manning a market stall.

Sneina's father and member of Fatah, was arrested in 1981 and sentenced to life imprisonment after he murdered soldier Avraham Deutsch in 1978 and Yosef Moscovitch in 1979. He was released in 1985 as part of the Gibril Deal.

Members of the cell also planned to murder a Jerusalem district police officer and kidnap an Israeli security officer. In addition, they planned to shoot at a police patrol vehicle next to Almog Junction north of the Dead Sea, carry out a shooting attack on a bus at the French Hill junction and shoot at the Tel Romadia border control in Hebron.

Zion Shriki, the father of the Border Policeman killed in the Lion's Gate attack, said that the indictment represented a tying of loose ends. "I don't believe in this kind of consolation," he said. "It's true that they were caught, but it's not right that the killer is still alive. After 12 days during which my son fought for his life, all hope to bring him back to us was lost. He was a boy, anyone who knew him knows the extent of our loss."

News of the indictment came two days after the most recent in a spate of attacks by East Jerusalem residents, in which a Palestinian plowed his car into a crowd at a busy Jerusalem intersection, wounding more than a dozen people, mainly soldiers.

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1.	Neither "terror" nor your "capital"	14:52	\|	Ismail	24/09/08

2.	#1 Ismail	15:34	\|	Daniela	24/09/08

3.	Ismail: re-inventing history, are you?	15:49	\|	Richard S	24/09/08

4.	Ismail , questioning your logic.	15:54	\|	Gabriel	24/09/08

5.	1# ismail	15:54	\|	Daniela	24/09/08

6.	And still no death penalty for terrorists? WHY??	16:32	\|	Arie	24/09/08

7.	Enforce the law !	16:33	\|	Jean Van Daem	24/09/08

8.	#1 Ismail	16:33	\|	Marco	24/09/08

9.	Anata is outside the Jerusalem municipal border	17:36	\|	Dr. L. Brnd	24/09/08

10.	all above, stop being reactionaries	17:39	\|	Angelo	24/09/08

11.	seems fair	18:19	\|	potobac	24/09/08

12.	potoboc	18:54	\|	alan	24/09/08

13.	What`s the difference?	19:13	\|	Axel	24/09/08

14.	killing of Zion Shriki`s boy	19:35	\|	astarte	24/09/08

15.	It becomes apparent that	20:03	\|	Scharker Yid	24/09/08

16.	Axel	20:11	\|	Marco	24/09/08

17.	#12 Axel	20:14	\|	EZ	24/09/08

18.	The Arab`s plot leads to the need of dividing Jerusalem.	20:19	\|	Fortuna Benmayor	24/09/08

19.	# 16 EZ	20:38	\|	Axel	24/09/08

20.	Angelo	20:40	\|	Edifice	24/09/08

21.	EZ next question	20:50	\|	Axel	24/09/08

22.	It is unfortunate	20:51	\|	Palestinian	24/09/08

23.	#20 Axel	21:18	\|	Paul	24/09/08

24.	alan 11	21:21	\|	potobac	24/09/08

25.	Bad luck, the terrorists are still alive	22:24	\|	maurice	24/09/08

26.	# 22 paul	22:26	\|	Axel	24/09/08

27.	to21 Palestine, Please explain to us why...	22:31	\|	maurice	24/09/08

28.	Axel #26	22:49	\|	Paul	24/09/08

29.	to 22 Palestine, or may be your goal is the same as the Nazis ?	23:29	\|	maurice	24/09/08

30.	Arabs of Israel Are a Disgrace to Islam	23:46	\|	Joseph.E	24/09/08

31.	potobac	00:09	\|	alan	25/09/08

32.	`palestinian`	00:15	\|	alan	25/09/08

33.	# 29 joseph	00:47	\|	Axel	25/09/08

34.	# 28 paul	00:52	\|	Axel	25/09/08

35.	#34 Axel	01:29	\|	Paul	25/09/08

36.	#33 Axel - I see you`re still sticking to your agenda	05:42	\|	* BEN JABO	25/09/08

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