(AP/Ha'aretz) The Shin Bet security service has arrested a Palestinian police officer who took part in the lynching of two IDF reserve soldiers at the hands of an angry mob in Ramallah in 2000, security officials said Tuesday. Mohammed Abu Eida, 28, told his interrogators he took part in the killing and was the officer who initially arrested the two soldiers. Abu Eida fled to Egypt shortly after the killings and was caught Jan. 31, when he tried to return.
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