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Israel:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Imprisoned Palestinians Planned to Make Chemical WeaponsFrom Tuesday, January 7, 2003 issue.
A group of Palestinian militants held in a Israeli prison planned to attack prison officials with chemical bombs, but were discovered last week before they could carry out the attack, the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv reported Sunday (see GSN, Aug. 2).
Officials at the Shiqma prison last week raided the cells of a prisoners’ group known as the “engineers” and found detailed information on how to produce chemical bombs using various medical supplies, according to Ma’ariv. The prisoners had acquired medicines, including mercury, alcohol and Vaseline, from the prison clinic after complaining of various ailments. Officials also discovered that the prisoners planned to build chemical laboratories in their cells, Ma’ariv reported (Shim’on Epergin, Ma’ariv, Jan. 5 in FBIS-NES, Jan. 5).
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