JERUSALEM [MENL] -- An insurgency cell composed of followers of Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was captured amid alleged plans to blow up
one of the holiest sites to Islam and Judaism.Israeli military sources said a group of three members from the ruling
Fatah movement was captured in the West Bank city of Hebron. They said the
group planned a series of bombings against Israeli civilians and troops.The plans included the detonation of a car bomb at the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron. The car was to have appeared as a vehicle of the
international peacekeeping force in the city.The cave, believed to be the burial ground of the biblical patriarchs
and matriarchs, is shared by Jews and Muslims and regarded as one of the
holiest sites by both religions.
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