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Terror Gang Uncovered

February 26, 1982
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Israeli security forces have uncovered an Al Fatah terrorist gang which operated in the Jerusalem and Nablus area. A military spokesman said today that members of the gang were responsible for a grenade attack outside the Old City of Jerusalem last October in which three Jews were wounded, and for a grenade attack last September in an Old City alley in which two Italian pilgrims were killed and 27 wounded.

One member of the gang, from East Jerusalem, confessed during interrogation to supplying grenades to another terrorist gang in Hebron and sabotage material to gangs in refugee camps in the Nablus area. The contact in the Nablus area was apprehended and during his interrogation he revealed the location of a cache of sabotage equipment.

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