Why were 'Palestinian' terrorists at IDF Colonel's home?
A senior security source said it was still too soon to conclusively determine the motive for deadly attack, but added that some media reports claiming that the incident was a failed robbery or otherwise criminal in nature were unfounded.
It appears that security forces believe the slaying was most likely a terrorist attack.
Ofer, nicknamed Yaya, was set upon by men carrying metal bars and axes after stepping outside of his home in the holiday village of Brosh Habika early on Friday morning. His wife, Monique, fled the scene and survived.
The Shin Bet [Israel Security Agency] took the lead in the investigation, and began chasing down intelligence leads from the moment the murder was reported. Meanwhile, a mobile crime scene investigation lab set up by Judea and Samaria District Police found several items, including murder weapons, security forces said.
On Saturday, following an intelligence tip off received by the Shin Bet, three Palestinian residents of the village of Dir Samat, near Hebron, were arrested.
Two of the suspects, named as Fard Talab Harub, 18, and Basher Ahmed Harub, 21, confessed to carrying out the murder, the Shin Bet added.
The suspects said during questioning that they arrived at the murder victim's home two weeks ago late at night, though they did not assault anyone on that occasion. The information is consistent with an account given by Sraya's wife, Monique, who told security forces that youths from Hebron had previously arrived at her home in a suspicious manner.
Five Palestinians arrested by security forces on Friday have been released without charge.
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"After fleeing the scene, the killers walked eight to ten kilometers south on foot, before entering a vehicle and leaving the area," Bruner said. "We found the footprints at 3 a.m.," Bruner said, adding that soldiers tracked them into the morning hours.
Bruner said none of the equipment left behind by the attackers indicated that they had intended to rob Ofer's home.No, they didn't want to rob Ofer's house. But this wasn't a random terror attack either. Hebron is nowhere near Brosh Habika, and if these terrorists wanted to carry out a random terror attack, they could have found plenty of targets much closer by.
And what were they doing at Ofer's house two weeks ago? Staking it out?
Three possible answers:
1. Ofer was a Leftist and they came to meet with him. I have not found any evidence of this yet one way or the other.
2. They came to meet with Ofer to demand something, and when he didn't give them what they wanted, they took revenge against Ofer for something in the past. He had a rather checkered background.
In 2009, Sraya Ofer was sentenced to six months community service and an NIS 20,000 fine, on charges that included obstruction of justice and tampering with an investigation, for his role in the intimidation of a witness in a tax case against him. Another defendant, attorney Avital Lambursky, received a similar sentence in the case. Ofer had hired Lambursky to find the witness, Shimshon Naamat, who was suspected of forging tax receipts worth some NIS 16.5 million.
According to the indictment, Ofer and Lambursky tracked down Naamat and followed his car to Tiberias, where they met with him at night, with a number of armed associates present, and pressured him to give false testimony to tax investigators.
In 2011, Sraya was acquitted of fraud, counterfeiting, tax evasion and conspiracy, following an indictment issued in 2003 accusing him of failing to pay some NIS 13m.Shades of Elhanan Tanenbaum?
3. The 'Palestinians' staked out the house two weeks ago because they wanted to kill a high-ranking IDF officer. Ofer fit the bill.
Ofer served in a range of combat posts, including as commander of the Shaked commando unit – which was subsequently dissolved in 1979 – and as a founding member of the Israel Air Force’s Shaldag commando unit.
He was one one of the founders of the Brosh Habika vacation village where the attack took place.I think it's safe to say that this was not a random killing, and therefore, unless you classify all attacks by Arabs on Jews as terrorism, it was not a terror attack. The real questions are the motive for the killing and who hired two young kids to carry it out.
Labels: crime, IDF, Palestinian terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:21 PM
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