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Israel Thwarts Islamic Jihad Plot to Assassinate Defense Minister Lieberman
(Jerusalem Post) Anna Ahronheim - The Israel Security Agency announced Sunday it had thwarted an Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist cell that was planning to place a bomb on a West Bank road on which Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman's convoy was scheduled to travel. Cell members had tried to purchase explosives and had contacted a terrorist organization in Gaza to receive funding for the attack. One cell member said he wanted to carry out the attack in order to be arrested so his family would receive a prisoner's pension. "These terrorist intentions reflect the increasing efforts of the PIJ and other terrorist organizations in Gaza to escalate activity with activists in the West Bank," the ISA said.