Palestinians planned coastal attack
Israel MatzavAnyone who thought that the 'Palestinians' have stopped trying to terrorize anyone other than their fellow 'Palestinians' is mistaken:
Palestinians planned coastal attack
Four Palestinians arrested over the weekend in northern Lebanon said they were planning to carry out attacks against Israeli targets along the Gaza-Egyptian coast, Al-Hayat reported Thursday. The Palestinians were detained Saturday, a day after the Lebanese Army thwarted their attempt to leave the northern coast of the country in a ferryboat packed with weapons and explosives, a high-ranking official told the London-based daily.He said the Palestinians confessed they belonged to Osbat Al-Ansar, an Islamist armed group based in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, near the southern port city of Sidon.
They also said a key figure in the group from the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in the north had planned the unsuccessful operation and provided the boat.
They were planning to attack Israeli targets along the coastal strip between Gaza and the Egyptian city of Al-Arish. [I really don't understand this. Not that I'm encouraging it, but if they were in Lebanon and they wanted to attack Israeli targets R"L, why go all the way down the coast to Gaza? CiJ]
The army reported the arrest of the four Palestinians a day after the Lebanese Navy chased them off the coast of Nahr al-Bared and forced them to abandon their boat. [Why didn't the Navy arrest them? And how did they get their boat back? CiJ]
The army initially said it had thwarted an arms smuggling attempt after finding rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and other explosives in the abandoned boat.
Update (8:05 AM): Now this makes more sense!
Lebanese nab terrorists headed for Gaza
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According to military sources who confirmed the report, the boat was on its way to Gaza from Lebanon and planned to drop off canisters filled with weapons, explosives and rockets off the coast where they were to be collected by Palestinian fishermen.
Government officials speculated that the boat was funded by Iran or Syria and that the weapons were meant to reach either the Hamas or the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
... According to Lebanese media reports, the boat - together with four passengers - was caught off the southern port of Tripoli. The boat's point of origin was a dock at Naher Al Bard - a nearby Palestinian refugee camp. Officials conjectured that the Palestinians onboard were members of the terrorist organization that fired Katyushas toward Kiryat Shmona last month. [As Charles points out on Little Green Footballs, al-Qaeda took 'credit' for that attack. CiJ]
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:05 AM
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