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Israel Security Agency: Palestinian Prisoners Plotted to Kidnap IDF Soldiers
(Ha'aretz) Gili Cohen - The Israel Security Agency and the Israel Prison Service foiled a plan by Palestinian prisoners to arrange for the abduction in the West Bank of an Israeli soldier who could then be used as a bargaining chip to secure their release. Abd al-Rahman Uthman, serving a life sentence for his role in a 2006 shooting attack, and his accomplice in that attack, Assam Zin al-Din, were planning a new crime together with a third prisoner, Abd Al-Haq. They contacted a Hamas activist in Gaza through another prisoner and secured the necessary funds for the attack. Uthman's brother Nazia and brother-in-law Nader were to have carried out the abduction last month in Hawara, Ariel or the Yitzhar junction area.