Police uncover weapons lab in home of West Bank settler
Police found equipment used to fix decommissioned guns last month, don't believe motive is ideological.
By Jonathan LisPolice have uncovered a weapons lab in the home of a West Bank settler that they believe was used to illegally fix decommissioned guns, according to information made public Thursday.
In a raid on the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, police found equipment used to manufacture bullet casings, as well as reference books on how to manufacture weapons and explosives. Police also found 15 Uzi semiautomatic rifles, three of which had been restored to function properly.
Police have yet to determine what the weapons were intended for, and if they were to be used in a terrorist or criminal plot. The prime suspect, a secular Jew of Russian origin, apparently was not acting out of ideological motives.
He was arrested at the beginning of the month along with five others, although the allegations were not made public until Thursday. A gag order forbids the publication of the suspects' identities, but police intend to indict them on Monday.
The prime suspect told investigators that the weapons were to be sold abroad to collectors, although police doubt his story.
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I hope he will be treated worse than terrorist if he was intending to sell them to the Palestinians. And if he was, he should be treated like a traitor.
"A Palestinian area a Lab like this would`ve been called in the big headlines (EXPLOSIVES FACTORY)." Rob, if you actually stopped to think and read before spouting your bigoted anti-Israel/anti-Semitic views, you would know that "Weapons Lab" is EXACTLY the term that the IDF uses to describe Palestinian bomb factories -- which by the way are a heck of a lot more lethal than recomissioning a few Uzi's and making bullet casings.
that sounds familiar... oh, wait a minute, i know... Children shot in school yards from sniper towers, families blown apart on beaches, houses demolished, orchards uprooted, cluster bombs dropped in residential areas, limbs broken, land stolen... so, you would go after someone with a gun who killed your child? i dont blame you. huh, sounds so familiar...
If you couldn't get that particular person, would ANY person do, if the other person happened to be Palestinian and the killer also was?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF5wWAsBQks
A Palestinian area a Lab like this would've been called in the big headlines (EXPLOSIVES FACTORY).
If the reason for such armaments was not 'ideological', as this article claims, then what is the reason? Instead of hunting Palestinians, is he hunting women? camels? what?
Buses being blown up , lunch room bombed, holiday dinners bombed. I as a parent would get a gun and go after the person that killed my child because he was a Jew. What woiuld you do if your child that was killed or injured. How about answering
I'm sure the bulldozers will warming up. Oh I forgot, he's not a PAL. Rollin