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Militant's Death

Jerusalem (JTA) — Palestinian
police continued to investigate
the killing of a fugitive member
of the Islamic Jihad who was
found strangled in a house in El-
Bireh, north of Jerusalem.
Salah Tuhaina, who escaped
from prison earlier this year and
is suspected of planning terror
attacks on Israelis, probably
was killed in a dispute by other
members of the fundamentalist
group Islamic Jihad, said Pales-
tinian security officials in Ra-
mallah.
However, the Islamic Jihad
distributed a leaflet blaming Is-
rael and the Palestinian Au-
thority for Mr. Tuhaina's death.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian
Authority reportedly released
at least 20 Islamic militants de-
tained in March after a wave of
suicide bombings in Israel.
The prisoners belonged to the
Hamas and Islamic Jihad fun-
damentalist groups.

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Jerusalem (JTA) — An Israeli
army inquiry into an ambush in
which three soldiers were killed
has resulted in the dismissal of
the commander of the Jordan
Valley Brigade.
Col. Avi Burger was relieved
of his duties after the investi-
gation of the June 26 ambush
on Israeli forces showed a series
of mistakes.
Lt. Gen. Amnon Shahak, the
Israel Defense Force chief of
staff, announced the dismissal.
"It was a terrible failure: of
planning, execution and con-
trol," Lt. Gen. Shahak said.
Other IDF sources were quot-
ed as saying that the entire
chain of command failed in con-
nection with the attack, which
also resulted in the wounding of
two Israeli soldiers.
According to the report, after
the gunmen fired on an Israeli
patrol, they overtook the com-
mand car, using its machine
gun to fire on a second patrol
that arrived at the site about an
hour later.
While Israeli forces had re-
ported hearing shots to their
south, it was not until 45 min-
utes later that the company
commander decided to send a
second patrol to see what had
happened to the first, the report
said.
That afternoon, it was deter-
mined that the gunmen had
crossed from Jordan into Israel
and back into Jordan.
A pro-Syrian Palestinian
group, Fatah-Uprising, claimed
responsibility for the attack.