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Shin Bet: Doctors Without Borders Staffer Plotted to Kill Israeli Prime Minister
[Jerusalem Post] Yaakov Katz - Mazab Bashir, 25, a Palestinian from Gaza who works for the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, has been arrested for plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Thursday. Bashir confessed that for months he had been collecting intelligence on senior Israeli officials - including Olmert and a number of Knesset members. He was picked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to carry out the planned assassination and underwent arms training with the PFLP.