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April 7, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=508887

Bethlehem PA Governor's Bodyguard Was Jerusalem Bus Bomb Mastermind

(Independent-UK) Donald Macintyre - Abdul Rahman Makdad, 28, organized the February bomb on the number 14 bus in Jerusalem and the one just a month earlier which had killed 11 people on a number 19 bus. "I was responsible for the last two operations," he answered coolly. "I don't recall the numbers of the buses." With the establishment of the PA in the wake of the Oslo accords, Makdad came to Gaza from Libya with Fatah's Palestinian Liberation Army, and then to Jenin, where he served in the Palestinian Security Services. He was transferred to Bethlehem where he became a bodyguard to the PA governor, and was in that job until he was arrested.

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