(Jerusalem Post) - Rashed Tarek al-Nimr, a cousin of PLO executive head Farouk Kadoumi, who worked as a chemist in hospitals in Nablus and Bethlehem, supplied chemicals he took from the hospitals to Hamas for use in making bombs. He also told the Shin Bet he used ambulances to transport the chemicals. Details of his arrest on Nov. 24 were released Wednesday. Nimr said senior Hamas commanders from the Nablus area hid inside the hospitals to evade arrest. Nimr sold Hamas commander Khaled Abu Hamed six containers of hydrogen peroxide, one of the ingredients used to make TATP, an explosive used by Hamas in numerous suicide bombings. Abu Hamed then told Nimr there would be a large explosion in Israel in the near future. Days before Nimr was arrested, Hamas member Said Kutab asked him to obtain nitrous acid and hydrogen sulfide, chemicals used in making nitroglycerine.
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