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JERUSALEM-The Israeli army has specific information that members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization granted amnesty this summer by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are planning suicide bombings inside Israel, WND has learned. Yesterday the Israel Defense Forces raided the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the stronghold of Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, in an attempt to arrest a Brigades cell there actively planning terror attacks, according to IDF sources.Three of four members of a Brigades terror cell surrounded by the army yesterday were granted amnesty by Olmert last June as a gesture to bolster Abbas' Fatah organization. The cell, among other things, was planning suicide attacks and shootings against Israel, sources said.A Brigades leader – Ahmed Senakre, the brother of the group's West Bank chief – was killed during yesterday's operation when he tried to escape the IDF siege. The three others were arrested.The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's military wing, is listed by the State Department as a terror group. It took responsibility, along with the Islamic Jihad terror organization, for every suicide bombing in Israel in 2005 and 2006 and for thousands of shootings and rocket attacks. Olmert granted amnesty to 178 Brigades members and was considering pardoning hundreds more on condition the terrorists disarm, refrain from terror activities and restrict their movements to the area in which they reside for three months. Many Brigades leaders openly defied the conditions of their amnesty by publicly retaining their weapons and committing scores of attacks.Yesterday's IDF operation comes after WND reported the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced it will attempt a series of suicide bombings inside Israel."The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades calls on its members in the Gaza Strip and West Bank to launch a series of martyrdom bombing attacks, shooting attacks and rocket attacks in response to the Zionist escalation in Gaza," said an official Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades pamphlet distributed in the West Bank and obtained by WND."The military wing of Fatah stays loyal to Fatah strategy and the way of Abu Amar (Yasser Arafat). We call on our brothers to take their weapons and plan attacks and attack every Israeli target. ... Al Aqsa threatens our reaction will come very soon in the middle of your (Israeli) cities," stated the pamphlet.In an interview, Abu Oudai, a chief of the Brigades in the northern West Bank, told WND the pamphlet addresses his group's objectives."The second intifada is entering a new cycle," said Abu Oudai. "We are proud to declare that on its 43rd anniversary Fatah is back to leading armed struggle. The Israelis will learn in the coming days what are our capabilities."The terror leader claimed his group's planned attacks were in response to Israeli "atrocities" in the Gaza Strip, referring to Israeli anti-terror efforts the past few days to combat escalated rocket fire from Gaza into nearby Jewish communities.Palestinian terrorists in Gaza yesterday fired some 30 rockets into Israel. On Thursday more than 40 rockets were fired, wounding four people, including two motorists hurt when a rocket slammed into a busy intersection.In what would be considered a major escalation, Hamas Wednesday claimed to WND it fired Katyusha rockets from the Gaza Strip aimed at a strategic Israeli city. Katyusha rockets can travel farther and carry much larger payloads than Qassam rockets, the brand usually launched by Gaza-based terror groups.The escalation in violence follows a visit to the region last week by President Bush in which the U.S. leader termed Abbas a "negotiating partner" and urged Israel to create a Palestinian state before the end of the year.Bush aimed to inject momentum into negotiations started at November's Annapolis summit in which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to commence talks leading to a Palestinian state. Israel is widely expected to withdraw from most of the West Bank and key eastern sections of Jerusalem.Senior Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met the past few days, including yesterday. Also, according to top diplomatic sources in Jerusalem and Ramallah, Abbas and Olmert held a secret personal meeting in Jerusalem Wednesday to advance talks.http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59761
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