Arab Terrorist Gang Smashed
While Egypt and Jordan Foment
War, Keep Breaking Cease Fire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol congratulated
police and security forces for the
speed with which they smashed
the Arab gang responsible for the
bombing outrage in Tel Aviv last
week in which one man was killed
and some 70 persons injured.
He thanked the public for its
cooperation in the capture of the
vandals and in preventing the
widening of rioting against Arab
residents by infuriated Jews. He
took pains to praise those Jews
who had protected innocent Arab
citizens from attacks by "hood-
lums."
Reporting to the cabinet on the
hand grenade blast, Eshkol called
the attack an atrocity aimed at
killing civilians indiscriminately
and said such outrages must be
viewed with the utmost gravity. He
reported on his talks with Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan and Police
Minister Eliahu Sasson on means
to prevent both such sabotage acts
and the ensuing riots.
Sasson told the cabinet meeting
that the arrested saboteurs had
confessed to all but two of the
recent sabotage acts in Jerusalem
in recent weeks—the bomb pla-ited
in the courtyard of the East Jeru-
salem American consulate and the
explosive charge left by a house in
an outlying quarter of Jerusalem.
No injuries occurred in those two
incidents.
Sasson. in a statement over Kol
Israel. warned Arab residents in
the West Bank, as well as Arabs
in neighboring states, to refrain
from such acts of terror and sabo-
tage. Speaking in Arabic, the police
minister stressed that most of the
Arabs who took part in the grenade
planting and similar sabotage acts
during the past month had been
caught and had confessed.
Police officials, reporting on
the speedy apprehension of the
vandals, said a dragnet was out
for two brothers from Hebron
who were the leaders of the
gang and for one of the four men
who actually placed the explos-
ives in trash cans in Tel Aviv.
The other three were among the
18 men seized after the blasts,
many of whom admitted their roles
in a series of such actions, the
police reported. The police said
that the Tel Aviv bomb planters
also carried out the bombing of
the Orient Cafe in Jerusalem and
the placing of grenades in trash
cans in Jerusalem. The leaders
were identified as Abdul Rahim
Tahim Jaber of Hebron and his
brother Munir Jaber.
A police cordon thrown quickly
around the Tel Aviv bus depot
area, the officials said, made pos-
sible the almost immediate capture
of two of the men who placed the
explosives. Some 300 Arabs were
detained and questioned. Most were
released.
Police then learned that two grad-
uates of a Jerusalem secondary
school, Abdul Latif Said Karnak,
and Salim Nouseibah, both 20, were
among the four who placed the
bombs. From them, police appar-
ently learned the identity of the
other two, one of whom — Ahmed
Sanduka—was arrested when he re-
turned to his East Jerusalem home
the night of the bombing. Marwan
Haref, the fourth man, was still at
large.
Police said that the escape plans
of the quartet were disrupted when
incorrectly-set fuses detonated the
grenades before they could make
their getaway. All of the arrested
men were - remanded for further
investigation.
A group of 17 men and three
youths YY c4.7 i-Arraignal ill magi:.
trate's court here last Friday for
further investigation of charges of
responsibility for the "night of the
grenades" three weeks ago, placing
of a time-bomb near Bikur Holim
hospital in the center of. Jerusalem
and planting of a grenade near a
filling. station.
The three youths were charged
with conspiring to cross into Jor-
dan to 'join terrorist gangs there.
Two of the men pleaded not guilty.
One apprehended Arab was not
charged and it was indicated he
would be a state witness.
An Arab spy ring which main-
tained clandestine radio contact
with Jordanian authorities was
linked Tuesday with the terrorist
gang responsible for the grenade
explosions in downtown Jerusa-
lem and in the Tel Aviv bus
terminal.
According to authorities, the
members of the ring, some of them
former Jordanian army officers,
were in contact with the bomb
terrorists most of whom have been
arrested.
The spy ring was uncovered in
a cave near Hebron along with
wireless transmitters and weap-
ons. The latter were of the same
make as those used by the Jor-
danian army. The ring was as-
signed to provide information on
Israeli troop deployments in the
Samaria and Judea ar?as, authori-
ties said.
Four prominent Arab leaders of
East Jerusalem and Hebron, who
were accused of fomenting the hos-
tile atmosphere in which the recent
bombing outrages in Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv were carried out,
were served with expulsion orders
and expelled across the Allenby
Bridge to Jordan last week.
The four were identified as Kamal
Dejani, 45, a judge and former
minister in the Jordanian govern-
ment; Dr. Daud Husseini, 65, a
member of the family of the ex-
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj
Amin el-Husseini; Mrs. Zalicha
Shihadi, the leader of the Arab
nationalist women's organization,
and Yasr Amer, 45, a Hebron
lawyer.
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
signed the expulsion orders
served on the three residents of
East Jerusalem, and Brig. Gen.
Rafael Vardi, commander of the
West Bank, signed the order
against the Hebron lawyer.
Authorities said the action
against the quartet was a direct
result of the investigation into
the Tel Aviv bus depot bombing
outrage.
Arab newspapers gloated over
terrorist bombings in Tel Aviv. .
They touted them as a "major
victory" for Arab commandos
and tried to create the impres-
sion that Israelis were in panic,
according to dispatches.
A newspaper headline in Iraq
said "Zionist authorities lose
nerve, arrest 100 Arabs." Beirut
newspapers carried front-page
photographs of people fleeing
the scene of the bombing over
the caption, "Commandos strike
heart of Tel Aviv." The papers
also carried accounts of subse-
quent attacks by Jews on Arabs.
The incident prompted an ex-
treme left-wing columnist in
Cairo to write in the newspaper
Al-Gomhoria that the only solu-
tion to the Middle East crisis is
a "peoples war of liberation"
against Israel in the style of the
Viet Cong. In Damascus, it was
reported, units of the "peoples
army" staged exercises to foil
a mock Israeli paratroop attack
which, Damascus radio said,
were "very successful."
ern
last Sunday severely damaged a
Coptic Church and hit several
mosques in the town of Kantara
near the northern entrance of the
Suez Canal, a military spokesman
reported Tuesday. Kantara is the
only civilian center on the Israel-
occupied East Bank of the canal
but it was nevertheless a target
of Egyptian gunners who were
able to sight on the church tower
and minarets, he said. Two local
residents were injured in the shell-
ing which forced the population to
take refuge in shelters for many
hours. The spokesman said that
priests of the Coptic Church were
deeply grieved by the damage.
Repairs had only just been com-
pleted on damage done during the
fighting of June, 1967, the spokes-
man said.
(The London Times reported
from Cairo Tuesday that the
towns of Suez and Ismailia are
strewn with rubble from Sun-
day's artillery duel between
Israeli and Egyptian forces and
the population is still dazed. Ac-
cording to the Cairo dispatch,
a government b u i l din g, two
mosques and a church received
direct hits and Ismailia was left
without water when a main was
hit.)
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
and Israeli Chief of Staff Maj.
Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev visited the
Suez Canal Zone Monday and in-
spected Israeli positions opposite
Ismailia and Suez. They were ac-
companied by Gen. Yeshayahu
Gavish, commander of the south-
ern front.
Egyptian artillery was deployed
well in advance for the concerted
attack all alon,g the was Canal
demarcation line and was waiting
only for a pretext to commence
firing, Israeli military circles indi-
cated Tuesday. The pretext came
on Sunday when the Israeli sappers
detonated the mine on a road near
the canal's east bank.
The evidence of considerable ad-
vance planning for the attack is
the swiftness with which the Egyp-
tian guns were brought into action
on the entire 103-mile front and
the fact that the guns were placed
close together so that their fire
was concerted on various targets,
military experts said
They linked Sunday's barrage to
a deliberate escalation by Egypt
from relatively minor incidents
along the Sinai front to the ambush
killing of the two Israeli soldiers
and kidnaping of the third on Aug.
26. The Egyptians apparently be-
lieved- that they have military su-
periority on this front, they said.
They noted a report in the semi-
official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram
to the effect that Egypt has re-
solved to "react forcefully" to any
Israeli action.
12—Friday, September 13, 1968
(A Beirut dispatch to the
Guardian in London by David
Hurst Tuesday said that Egypt
is adopting a more aggressiire
attitude in confronting Israeli
troops across the Suez Canal and
has declared that it will initiate
"preventive defense operations."
Hurst observed that there acre
political as well as military mo-
tives behind this stance which,
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