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Shin Bet: We've caught Bat Ayin axe terrorist
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, Bat Ayin 

The Shin Bet has apprehended a Palestinian who it believes killed a 13-year-old boy with an axe in the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin at the beginning of April, the security service revealed Sunday.

A 7-year-old boy was also moderately wounded in the attack, which ended when a local man fought the terrorist and managed to pry the axe away from him. The assailant, however, managed to escape the scene.

Moussa Tayet, the suspect, is a 26-year-old resident of a nearby Palestinian village. He was arrested on April 14, according to the Shin Bet.
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At the time of the attack, a murky Palestinian group claimed responsibility. But authorities discounted the claim and said Sunday that Tayet had no links to any organized militant groups.

The security service said he has confessed to the attack and that he perpetrated it of his own volition.

Tayet said he was driven by religious motives and wanted to "die as a shaheed" [matyr], according to the Shin Bet.

Tayet told investigators he acquired the axe two weeks before the attack.

The slain boy, Shlomo Nativ, was laid to rest in a funeral procession attended by hundreds. The child who was wounded, Yair Gamliel, is the son of Ofer Gamliel, who is serving a prison sentence for his role in a plot to attack a Palestinian girls' school.

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      1.   Bravest of arab martyrs nothing more than child murders. 13:59  |  disgusted american 26/04/09
      2.   religious fanatics! 15:21  |  Israeli 26/04/09
      3.   you could say the same 16:23  |  jennifer 26/04/09
      4.   #2 Israeli--Be careful you will be labelled an Anti Semite 17:08  |  Erik 26/04/09
      5.   Moussa Tayet Is Not An Axe Terrorist 17:14  |  Jeff Northridge 26/04/09
      6.   Jeniffer , no , you cant say the same 17:50  |  TOMY 26/04/09
      7.   Lets the highst penalty be available to him, murderer at cold 17:52  |  JP 26/04/09
      8.   disgusted american 18:03  |  neil 26/04/09
      9.   Re# 3 To Jenniffer Is not the same ... 18:13  |  ines 26/04/09
      10.   Re# You are very right Jeff... 18:30  |  ines 26/04/09
      11.   Re# 7 Right Neil You are right... 18:36  |  ines 26/04/09
      12.   JP There is no death penalty in Israel 18:39  |  ines 26/04/09
      13.   See Haaretz article on Dr. Michael Oren 18:47  |  Ines Lebel 26/04/09
      14.   TOMY 18:56  |  jennifer 26/04/09
      15.   Grant him his wish 19:11  |  David 26/04/09
      16.   If this suspect committed this act 19:21  |  Palestinian Prince 26/04/09
      17.   #1 19:21  |  Amrican 26/04/09
      18.   tomy 6 19:29  |  potobac 26/04/09
      19.   To # 10 19:33  |  Jeff Ward 26/04/09
      20.   David 20:02  |  jennifer 26/04/09
      21.   They have to GO! 20:04  |  fritz t. 26/04/09
      22.   What was the penalty that Israeli officer got? 20:06  |  Colin Wright 26/04/09
      23.   Jeniffer 20:19  |  Brad 26/04/09
      24.   POTOBAC who set off a bomb in a school full of children?? 20:35  |  PETER SM 26/04/09
      25.   people who kill children 20:43  |  rm 26/04/09
      26.   Re# 16 Palestine Prince... 21:50  |  ines 26/04/09
      27.   Re# 19 I call the bombs.... 22:01  |  ines 26/04/09
      28.   Brad 22:48  |  jennifer 26/04/09
      29.   Re# 21 To Fritz... The settlers in Gaza... 23:11  |  ines 26/04/09
      30.   Re# 29 Jennifer.. Right ... so What then 23:17  |  ines 26/04/09
      31.   Terror in Irak, Pakistan and Afhganistan 23:21  |  ines 26/04/09
      32.   Jennifer 00:34  |  Peter 27/04/09
      33.   above 00:49  |  moishe 27/04/09
      34.   jennifer #20 00:51  |  felix 27/04/09
      35.   # 17 01:45  |  oz 27/04/09
      36.   Terror in Bat Ayin 01:51  |  Howard Hamilton 27/04/09
      37.   The truth is, the man was consumed by Hatred! 02:45  |  Bitin Dawg 27/04/09
      38.   BITINDAWG hatred? take alook at the racist media of Hamas 11:53  |  PETER SM 27/04/09
      39.   peter sm 24 13:54  |  potobac 27/04/09
      40.   Axe terrorist 15:13  |  ks 27/04/09
      41.   #1 American 15:27  |  EE 27/04/09
      42.   felix 16:02  |  jennifer 27/04/09
      43.   jennifer #38 16:31  |  felix 27/04/09
      44.   felix 17:00  |  jennifer 27/04/09
      45.   jennifer 18:29  |  felix 27/04/09
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