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...week, threatened to mar President Clinton's five-country Middle East tour with more violence. Since the bombing, Israeli authorities have rounded up dozens of second- and third-tier Hamas operatives from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including, Rabin disclosed today, two alleged accomplices of the suicide bomber, Salah Abdel Rahim Hassan Assawi. Rabin also pledged to amass a 10,000-member security force for Clinton's arrival in Jerusalem Thursday. In Washington, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the Administration is likely to propose legislation to quash U.S. fund raising by Hamas and other terrorist groups...
...blasted the move as "economic and social war" on his people and "collective punishment" for Wednesday's Tel Aviv bombing by Hamas. Meanwhile, Hamas today distributed a videotape of a man it said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh. At least one witness, however, swore he wasn't the culprit...
Rather than come right out with it, the Israelis hinted at and leaked their charge after Mohammad Jarad and Mohammad Salah, two naturalized Americans, were arrested as Hamas organizers in the occupied territories. Ehud Yaari, an Arab affairs commentator for the state-run Israel Television, said a shaken Hamas leadership had selected the U.S. as a safe haven and moved its "nerve center" there from the occupied territories. The Hamas militant underground, he said, consisted of four regional commands now directed from the U.S. headquarters...
Though Jarad and Salah are being held without charge and have had no access to attorneys, Israeli authorities say their guilt is clear from their "confessions" and the documents they had with them. The Israelis say the two men met with Hamas leaders in Virginia and London before they arrived in Israel in mid-January. Then they contacted Hamas activists in the territories, passing out money and "specific instructions to carry out terrorist operations." The Israelis claim that they found minutes of those meetings and $100,000 in cash in Salah's room at the Y.M.C.A. in East Jerusalem...
...they went to Jerusalem to visit relatives. "We've never been involved with politics," says Jarad's wife Amal. Her husband, she says, works 11 hours a day, six days a week "in front of the public" at the Holy Land Bakery and Grocery on Chicago's North Side. Salah is a used-car salesman...