- RAMALLAH -- The Hamas organization
has launched an Internet course in the production and assembly of explosives.
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- Israeli and Palestinian sources said Hamas, which claims
responsibility for the lion's share of Palestinian suicide bombing attacks,
has established an Internet site that offers Muslims instructions in the
production of bombs, rockets and light aircraft. They said the news of
the site has spread throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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- The instructions can be found on the web site of Hamas's
Izzedin Kassam military wing, Middle East Newsline reported. The site,
called "Military Academy," offers 14 lessons in bomb-making as
part of what the Islamic group said is a campaign to expand the pool of
bomb-makers. Health insurance for the self-employed: Special offer The
courses include lessons on the production of a belt filled with explosives
that can be worn by a suicide bomber. Other courses demonstrated how to
manufacture RDX plastic explosives, material that is said to be difficult
to detect.
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- The Hamas online course also provides instructions on
preparing regular bombs as well as methods to identify targets.
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- Izzedin Kassam said the process of producing suicide
bombs requires three people. They are a bomb expert, an electrician and
a tailor to sew the belt to the proportions of the suicide attacker.
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- The Hamas site is interactive and those taking the course
can correspond with the movement's bomb instructors. But the military wing
warned that those who miss one lesson will not be allowed to continue the
course.
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- The site said those who ask a question about a lesson
that already was given would be removed from the course. Those taking the
course would also be required to take tests after each stage. 'BREAKDOWN':
How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 Hamas has made
extensive use of the Internet to relay instructions and transfer funds.
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- Last month, Israeli authorities arrested three Palestinians
who had been corresponding with Hamas in their attempt to poison patrols
of a popular Jerusalem cafe. Officials said the Palestinian recruits failed
to understand the instructions relayed over the Internet.
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- Israeli sources said Hamas has used the Internet as part
of its drive to restore its infrastructure in the West Bank. They said
some 100 Hamas agents have been arrested in the West Bank since April.
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- Hamas and the Lebanese-based Hizbullah have cooperated
in recruiting suicide bombers. The mothers of some of the Hamas suicide
bombers have appeared on Hizbullah's Al Manar television, widely viewed
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and praised the decision of their children
to kill themselves in attacks on Israel.
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- But one would-be suicide bomber surrendered to Israeli
military authorities outside the northern West Bank of Nablus on Tuesday.
Palestinian sources said the young man had been pressured by his mother
to abandon plans for a suicide mission.
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