By Stan Goodenough
Jun 02, 2008
Three Israeli Arabs [that's right, three Arabs enjoying all the privileges of Israeli citizenship] were recently arrested for plotting to kidnap and murder an IDF soldier, and use his body to trade for Palestinian prisoners.
The suspects are believed to have taken a page out of the Hamas and Hizb'allah training manuals; both those terrorist organizations have successfully implemented this strategy, more than once.
A knife and a gun were to be used kill the soldier, who would be videotaped before being buried in secret, according to the indictment.
The victim's identification card would then be given to an unknown accomplice.
According to Ha'aretz, citing the Shin Bet Internal Security Service, the three men are all residents of Lod, near Ben Gurion International Airport. They are all activists in the Islamic Movement, and one is a student of Islamic shari'a law in a Jordan university.
Further details in the courtroom brief reveal that the three men held a secret meeting in the Great Mosque in Lod during a Muslim holiday last December, where one of them declared that every Muslim has the duty to uphold the precept of jihad against the "infidels."