Kahane writings found in dead soldier's room

[Scurrilous]

Police uncover extreme-rightist publications among belongings of US-born haredi soldier Israel Reinman who committed suicide in mosque last week. Findings back theory Reinman was planning terror attack in place

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261704,00.html

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"The Shin Bet and the military police reported progress in the investigation into the suicide of American-born soldier Israel Reinman at a mosque near Jenin last week. A search of the dead soldier's room in the Old City in Jerusalem revealed books and publications of the Kahane Chai extreme-right movement, as well as writings of extremist rabbis.

As Reinman did not leave a letter behind, these findings support the assumption that the soldier intended to carry out a terror attack at the mosque.

Sources familiar with the probe said that this was only one theory the police was looking into, and that it may be rejected if contradicting evidence emerge."

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"Reinman left his home in Brooklyn and arrived in Israel about two months ago and enlisted with the haredi Nahal unit three weeks ago.

Last Monday he disappeared from his army base during a military drill, and was found dead several hours later at a mosque in the village of Akraba. Reinman fired several burst of gunfire at the building's walls before killing himself."

[Karmakaze]

1. LOL

A frustrated suicide terrorist - shooting up the walls, probably imagining he was shooting all the Muslims he thought would be there, and knowing that there was no turning back!

Too damn funny.

[cali]

2. Yeah, that's just a riot.

It's fortunate that he killed himself rather than killing others, but thinking that it's a riot is fucked up. Whether it's a Palestinian suicide bomber who blows himself up before reaching his target, or this guy, there's nothing humorous about it. It's a symptom of the hatred that's been consuming the region for decades.

[Karmakaze]

3. No, it is indeed a "riot"

There is nothing funnier than a violent arsehole getting killed by his own stupidity (even his own hand) while all the innocents come out untouched!

Now if only ALL the violent aresholes would take themselves out without hurting anyone else, then the world would be a much better place!

[Englander]

4. JPost;

'Background: Another symptom of what's wrong with Nahal Haredi

Anshel Pfeffer, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 8, 2006

Whether Yisrael Reinman's death was just another tragic case of a lonely immigrant committing suicide or whether it was some bizarre botched anti-Arab attack, you've got to be asking what a 28-year-old Brooklynite, only two months in the country, was doing with an M-16 in a Jordan Valley mosque. When, however, you take into account the IDF unit that Reinman belonged to, it all of a sudden makes sense.

The Nahal Haredi battalion has been one of the army's pet projects for the past decade. Eager to prove to the haredi community that its sons can serve in the military while not sacrificing their religious lifestyle and beliefs, the army has gone a long way and invested an inordinate amount of resources in trying to ensure the unit's success.

A special base was set up to enable its soldiers to undergo their entire basic and advanced training in a secluded environment, without contact with female soldiers, with long periods for prayer and Torah lessons and a mess with the highest level of kashrut supervision. Religious officers were brought in from various units to command them and a special department in the Defense Ministry was set up to find and enlist yeshiva dropouts.

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The first sign that something was going wrong was when a number of Nahal Haredi soldiers were caught throwing stones at Palestinian cars. It turned out that a number of youths who had been involved in the outlawed Kach movement and who had been tagged by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) as "undesirable" for IDF service had been allowed to enlist in Nahal Haredi just to make up the numbers.

As the intifada intensified, so did reports of insubordination in the unit, especially of mistreatment of Palestinians at roadblocks. Last year, two soldiers from the unit, both living in West Bank settlements, were caught after having planted a fake bomb at Jerusalem's Central Bus Station as a protest against the disengagement from the Gaza Strip. There was no question at any stage of involving the unit in the disengagement, but there were still a number of cases where soldiers were disciplined for disobeying orders during that period. A special order was also issued forbidding the soldiers from wearing Gush Katif orange T-shirts during the exercise periods.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1149572637395&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

[Tom Joad]

5. Why am i not surprised this sicko was from the USA?

Or that the Israeli military has a special unit that harbors religious/political extremists.

Imagine the uproar here if we had a special US Army battalion just for Christian fundamentalists? I would think that a crazy idea. things are already bad enough with some military schools mixing official duties and religion.