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April 29, 2011| 11 Nissan 9 5771
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Vol. 7, Iss. 17
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PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY POLICE MURDER ISRAELI NEAR JOSEPH’S TOMB
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Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (above), who plotted the attack on the USS Cole. BY FERN SIDMAN
Thousands mourn the untimely death of Ben Yosef Livnat (right insert), who was gunned down by Palestinian police on Sunday.
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BY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU Palestinian Authority police Sunday morning shot and killed one Israeli and wounded four others after they prayed at Joseph's Tomb (Kever Yosef) around 6 a.m. Sunday (11 p.m. Saturday night EDT). The murder victim was identified as 24-yearold Ben Yosef Livnat, a nephew of Likud Minister Limor Livnat and father of four. rabs attacked the funeral procession with rocks as it proceeded from his childhood home of Elon Moreh, where he lived with his wife and four children, to Jerusalem. At least one car windshield was broken in the rock attacks, but no one was injured. People from Elon Moreh stood by the highway in dozens of cars as the funeral procession passed. One of the four who were wounded in the shooting attack is in serious condition, and Army helicopters evacuated the injured to a hospital for emergency care. A group of 15
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worshippers from the Breslov Chassidic sect had driven to the site and were returning when they were gunned down by Palestinian Authority police in a jeep. The PA security forces continued to fire at the cars as they fled. The IDF hurriedly issued a statement that the trip to Kever Yosef was not coordinated with Israeli security forces, and military spokesmen referred to the murder as an "incident" and not an attack. Kever Yosef is a Jewish holy site that was supposed to be under Israeli control and open to worshippers as stated in previous agreements. However, the government has surrendered the area to Palestinian Authority control, and local Arabs have desecrated it several times. The Breslov group was known to Palestinian Authority authorities as people who frequently prayed at Kever Yosef without any other intentions, according to
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In a surprise announcement last Wednesday (April 20), Pentagon prosecutors declared their intention to re-file war crimes charges against the mastermind of the deadly attack on the USS Cole in the Port of Aden, Yemen on October 12, 2000. 17 US sailors were killed and 40 other US service personnel were wounded when a small vessel, laden with explosives and manned with suicide bombers rammed into the American Navy warship. he announcement included the original request of the military prosecution for an imposition of the death penalty on self-admitted Cole bomber, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 46, the former al-Qaeda chief of operations for the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Nashiri is Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni descent. Charges against al-Nashiri had been sworn by the office of the chief war crimes prosecutor, Navy Captain John Murphy, as word of the first full military commission case of the Obama adminis-
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