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Shortly before Ala' Abu Dhaim picked up a semiautomatic rifle, two pistols and lots of ammunition, he called his 17-year-old fiancée and made plans to go shopping the next day in Jerusalem. They were getting married in the summer and hoped to honeymoon in Turkey before moving into a house near olive groves. But Abu Dhaim, 25, was wrestling with darker forces. After hanging up the phone, he gathered his weapons in a cardboard television box and drove to the Mercaz Harav seminary in the heart of Jerusalem. Abu Dhaim climbed the stairs to a library, where...
...Abu Dhaim doesn't fit the typical profile of a suicide terrorist. His East Jerusalem family had money and education, and his fiancée describes him as cheerful, gentle and apolitical. His behavior not only fooled her but shook Israelis who had been lulled into thinking that the specter of Palestinian bombers and gunmen was a distant nightmare (the last suicide bombing in Jerusalem was in September...
...Meanwhile, Israel police moved swiftly over the weekend to calm down the settlers' rage after the seminary killings. Police stopped three right-wing activists from trying to tear down the mourning tent outside the house of gunman Ala Abu Dhaim in the Arab village of Jebel Mukabir...
Meanwhile, on the slopes of a hill terraced with olive groves east of Jerusalem, funeral preparations were being made by Palestinians for their martyr, Abu Dhaim, the quiet and religiously minded 25-year-old who appeared to his friends to be far more obsessed with thoughts of his upcoming marriage than with a jihadi's paradise. Meanwhile, at the tent for mourners outside Abu Dhaim's home in Jebel Mukabir, the flags of Israel's two greatest enemies, Hamas and Hizballah of Lebanon, rippled in the spring breeze. Overnight, Israeli police arrested Abu Dhaim's male relatives, a few neighbors...
...Hamas spokesman there praised the attack but backtracked on earlier claims of responsibility for sending Abu Dhaim on his suicide mission. If it turns out that Hamas was indeed responsible, it would mark the start of a new campaign of terror inside Israel, a likely response to Israel's hammering of Gaza last week, in which 110 Palestinians, half of them civilians, were killed. After Hamas won the January 2006 general elections in the Palestinian territories, it halted suicide bombings, though other Palestinian groups persisted. Many suicide bombers tried to slip into Israel, and most were caught, lulling many Israelis...