Israel arrested three members of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction who it alleges planned to carry out a bomb attack in Jerusalem. The three members of Force 17, arrested Sunday, admitted they were sent by their Ramallah commanders to set off a bomb in a northern Jerusalem neighborhood, according to a statement released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
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