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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 United Press International TEL AVIV — A member of an un- derground Jewish terrorist network pleaded guilty yesterday in the at- tempted bombing of five Arab buses in East Jerusalem a month ago. Israel Radio said Noam Yinon, 27, a resident of the Keshet settlement on the annexed Golan Heights, admitted hauling explosives for the terrorists. He had been charged initially with attempted murder and sabotage. The trials of 26 men also suspected of. being members of the under- ground network were scheduled to start June 17, according to Israel tele- vision. Most of the charges involved - a series of attacks against Palestin- ians in the West Bank in the last four _ years. Yinon’s trial was separated: from the others’ after an apparent plea bargain. He will be serfitenced next week. ; In a related case, an Israeli newspa- per disputed Defense Minister Moshe Arens’ statement that he had been unaware of the fate of two Palestin- ian bus hijackers who were beaten: to- death last month while in captivity. The tabloid Hadashot and its pho- tographer, Alex’ Levak, said Arens and aides were on the scene when the two Palestinians were led away alive before their death during inter- rogation. “Tt can’t be that they did not see what I saw,” said Levak, whose pho- tographs, suppressed by the censor for six weeks, broke open the case of “the two Palestinians’ deaths. Levak’s photographs, including. one of a captured hijacker being led away alive, were published in Israel yesterday for the first time. They were taken the night of the hijack- ing, April 12. Many foreign néWspa- pers, including The Inquifer, also ‘published the photographs P A sequence obaix of Laval? photo- graphs showed wounded Israelis tak- en off the bus, passengers. leaving the. yéhicle, Areris rd hk his -party, andthe captured hijacker. Levak said he took the picture se- ries in less than a minute’standing near the defense minister and his” aides at the place where Israeli forces Halted’ the hijacking, outside Deir El Balah in Gaza. : SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 30 May 1984 Pe. Israeli guilty in bomb plot LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL 9 May 1984 P11 Jewish terrorists use arms stolen from Israeli army By MICHAEL WIDLANSKI @ Cox News Service JERUSALEM — The stealing of high. explosives, ammunition and guns from the Israel army has reached epidemic propor- tions, according to Israeli offi- cials, and this has been a major factor in the recent wave of Jew- ish terror aimed at Arab targets around Jerusalem and the Israe- li-ruled West Bank, Much of the stolen arms and ammunition, the officials said, also finds its way to the Israeli underworld where it often is used in violent crimes such as bank robberies and murders. In addition, the officials said, part of the stolen arsenal is sold to Arabs — even those who mount terrorism against Jews. “They (Israeli criminals and soldiers) do it without senti- ments,” said a police investigator here. “They, even sell to Arabs, and they don’t think what the re- sults will be.” : Senior officials in the Israeli police, the Ministry of Interior and the defense community con- firmed that “thousands” of guns and hand grenades, plus “hun- dreds” of pounds of explosives had been stolen by Israeli sol- diers since the beginning of Isra- el’s war in Lebanon in June 1982. The officials said that stélen Is- raeli army weapons played a leading role in the attatks and attempted attacks on Arab tar- gets in recent months, including: “ The attempted bombing in late April of several Arab buses here. “ The attempt earlier this year to bomb the Islamic shrine of the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. The sniping at an Arab bus in the West. Bank town of Ramal-. lah north of here. ; Four different Jewish groups, with differing levels of expertise, operated independently in these incidents, according to Israeli of- ficials, but the group arrested some two weeks ago operated at the most sophisticated level. © “Security offitials noted that among the more than 20 people arrested, there were a significant number who either served in se- lect Israeli army combat units or as supply and engineering offi- cers, thereby giving them easy access to Israeli army weaponry. Court orders have prohibited the press from identifying those arrested, but the suspects are known to be leading members of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights, territor- ies captured by Israel from the attacking Jordanian and Syrian armies in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. “You wouldn't believe how much ammunition and how many guns are stolen from the army all the time,” said Shlomo Efrati, a police investigator here. “Every special investigatory Squad I’ve been in has found large numbers of stolen weapons. In the case of the shooting of the Ramallah bus, they stole an M-16 (assault rifle) and filed off the (serial). numbers, “The army unit (from which the rifle was stolen) hadn’t done an inventory in more than three years,” he said. “They didn’t even know it was missing.” Officials said that the war in Lebanon had made access to Is- raeli army weapons especially easy. “Wars cause the outflow and use of arms,” said Yaakov Mar- kovitz, the director of the Bureau of Police Affairs in the Ministry of Interior. “Since the IDF (Israel Defense Forces, the army’s official name) is a citizen army with large re- serves, there is easy entry to arms supplies and even emergen- cy stores,” said Markovitz, He added that much of the stolen arms and explosives now find their way not only to Jewish set- tlers but to the Israeli under- world and even to Arab terror- ists. “There’s no scarcity of arms for somebody who’s willing to pay, and there’s always some- body wiljing to sell,” Markovitz said. - 1 48 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5