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Report: IDF arrests fugitive terrorist having sex in jeep near Arafat’s grave; Update: WND author responds

posted at 2:59 pm on May 28, 2007 by Allahpundit
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This one’s almost too good to check, but given the source, I checked it anyway. Annnnd … it’s probably not true.

Israel today arrested a longtime wanted terror leader here in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

According to Israeli security officials and Palestinian sources in Ramallah speaking to WND, the terrorist was arrested while having car sex just a few hundred feet from late PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s gravesite…

According to Israeli security officials and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades sources in Ramallah, Shawish was arrested after the Israeli police stormed his jeep, which was parked in a lot outside the Muqata, about 200 feet from Arafat’s grave. The sources said at the time of his arrest, Shawish was having intercourse in the back seat of his jeep with a Palestinian woman, whose identity is being withheld by WND. The woman was not his wife.

To see why it’s probably not true, click here. You won’t have to read far.

Update 5/30: Looks like I owe Aaron Klein, the author of the WND piece, an apology. He e-mailed today to say that he stands by his story, with good reason — he’s met Shawish personally and knows him to be physically capable notwithstanding his disability. Klein writes:

In your blog, you state my story about a Fatah terror leader caught having sex near Arafat’s grave is “probably not true” because Haaretz reported the terror leader sustained an injury and was confined to a wheelchair. But actually my article also states Shawish sustained an injury and was confined to a wheelchair, but I report that he was able to drive (and thus also probably have sex). I know the terror leader, Khaled Shawish, personally and have quite good sources in Israel and the Palestinian arena.

Duly noted. Thanks for the feedback, Aaron.


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It could be true, one of the symptoms we were told to check for when evaluating causalities for spinal injuries in the Corps was for as erection that would subside.
I could be wrong though, it has been awhile. Since I was enlisted that is.

hulbstar on May 28, 2007 at 3:07 PM

Did they let him finish first?

Tony737 on May 28, 2007 at 3:08 PM

Is he Klinton’s cousin or something?

Zorro on May 28, 2007 at 3:16 PM

…Workin’ on the night moves…

Now you know this means you only get 71 virgins in that big strip club in the sky.

Mojave Mark on May 28, 2007 at 3:22 PM

According to Israeli security officials and Palestinian sources in Ramallah speaking to WND, the terrorist was arrested while having car sex just a few hundred feet from late PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s gravesite…

“While having car sex”? Was he using the exhaust pipe or something??

Levy on May 28, 2007 at 3:22 PM

Are you sure they weren’t just dancing on his grave?

with a Palestinian woman, The woman was not his wife.

I see a good ol’public stoning coming on!

Kini on May 28, 2007 at 3:34 PM

To see why it’s probably not true, click here. You won’t have to read far.

Well, there’s always OS… and maybe he was the giver.

AlexB on May 28, 2007 at 3:35 PM

“But officer, we were just making more shahids (martyrs) for the Jihad!!”

P. James Moriarty on May 28, 2007 at 3:43 PM

Was she in the martyr position?

Aardvark on May 28, 2007 at 4:25 PM

To see why it’s probably not true, click here. You won’t have to read far.

How can you be arrested for “car sex” near a madman’s grave if you’re already in jail?

Duh-da-DUUUUUHHHHM!

Why do these guys need car bombs if they can do some kinda jihadi magic? Is this like how Chinese people can fly through the air and do some kung-fu fighting while standing on a 50ft bamboo stalk?

ScottMcC on May 28, 2007 at 4:57 PM

According to Israeli security officials and Palestinian sources in Ramallah speaking to WND, the terrorist was arrested while having car sex just a few hundred feet from late PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s gravesite….

Doesn’t that sound like fun? Go forth! Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth! :-)

Kralizec on May 28, 2007 at 4:59 PM

World Net Daily and DEBKA File are as accurate as The Weekly World News.

Hilts on May 28, 2007 at 5:11 PM

I wonder if she had a burka on.

SouthernGent on May 28, 2007 at 5:27 PM

That wasn’t what they meant when they said he was having sex in his vehicle.

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 28, 2007 at 5:34 PM

Oh man that means she is going to get stoned.

400lb Gorilla on May 28, 2007 at 6:21 PM

near a madman’s grave if you’re already in jail?

Yep, Arafat was a madman all right, how he ever gained ANY legitimacy from anyone or any nation beyond being the terrorist thug he was has always baffled me! If Arafat truly loved his “Palestinian People” he would have used all the billions in aid money the US and many other nations sent him on building an economy, develop an infrastructure, and create jobs for his people to make a better life for themselves.

Arafat was never interested in peaceful coexistence with Israel nor was he interested in creating a better life for his “Palestinian People” because there was no money to be made through peaceful coexistence with Israel. So instead Arafat used all that money to line his and his cronies pockets and foment hatred and violence by blowing up innocent men, women, and children at bus stops all in the name of liberating his “Palestinian People.”

I place Palestinian People in quotes because these people are not some sort of “special” oppressed race as the Arab propagandists have brainwashed the liberal left and others around the world to believe, the truth is they are Arabs that happen to live in Palestine, nothing more and nothing less! The idea of a special oppressed race of “Palestinian People” is like saying I’m a “Arizonian People” because I happen to reside in Arizona! The “Palestinian People” is a myth created by Arabs to garner world sympathy (especially from the gullible liberal left) that the Arabs living in Palestine are somehow a special race that had its land “stolen” from them and are being oppressed by Israel!

The truth of the matter is these Palestinian Arabs lost some of their lands to Israel when they and several Arab nations attacked Israel unprovoked! They got their butts kicked in a war they started with Israel and in the process lost some of their land and ever since they have been trying to paint Israel as the aggressors and themselves as the victims (Arabs have made painting themselves as victims an art form…no pun intented) that they are merely fighting (if you want to call killing innocent men, women, and children fighting) to liberate themselves from the evil Israeli empire!

I have a message for them, “don’t provoke a war with another country unless you’re willing to lose the war and some of your land, and if you go to war and lose you lose the right to bitch, whine, or point your stupid finger at the innocent country you attacked, instead take your losses like men and stop playing the victim!!”

Yet the Arab propaganda myth of “The Palestinian People” and their struggle against the evil Israeli occupiers continues on because of the support of the gullible liberal left apologists as is evident by the sheer fact the liberal left not only supported Arafat and Fatah, but just like his “Palestinian People” they placed Arafat on a pedestal like he was some great hero, diplomat, and leader on par with the presidents, heroes, leaders, and diplomats of free nations, when in reality the man wasn’t fit to shine their shoes let alone sit at the same table with the them!

I can only hope that Arafat is getting what he deserves in the after life, he was no hero, diplomat, or leader, all he ever was and ever will be in my opinion was a terrorist thug with blood on his hands! He only cared about his ego and getting rich off the misery and grief of his own beloved “Palestinian People” and for this reason alone did I ever feel any sympathy toward the “Palestinian People” in the past, but after the “Palestinian People” celebrated in the streets on 9-11 I don’t have one ounce of sympathy for them, they deserve the legacy Arafat has left them, and they all deserve each other!

Liberty or Death on May 28, 2007 at 6:41 PM

Hope it was good cause now he’s ironing pants for some guy named Gustafa.

Speakup on May 28, 2007 at 6:57 PM

Yassar Arafat was listed as in stable condition…

BobH on May 28, 2007 at 7:19 PM

I hope they put a stake through the place where Arafat’s heart was supposed to be when they buried him, otherwise this could rouse him like Nosferatu from his unsavory slumbers.

I can almost hear the coffin boards creaking… the long yellow fingernails digging upward… the khaffiyeh getting tangled in a stray tree root…the cursing in Arabic as he cannot get the mini-tablecloth unhooked… the raggedy baldpate breaking the surface of the stony soil… looking like Ringo Starr after the apocalpyse…”

profitsbeard on May 28, 2007 at 7:21 PM

profitsbeard: “I can almost hear the coffin boards creaking . . . the raggedy baldpate breaking the surface . . . and croaking, “Next time, make it a teenaged boy!”

smellthecoffee on May 29, 2007 at 12:12 AM

What is true, however, is that Arafat was one of the ugliest people, inside and out, this Earth had ever encountered.

Entelechy on May 29, 2007 at 1:13 AM

For those of you that don’t know this, just because he is in a wheelchair doesn’t mean he can’t perform. I have a very good friend in a wheelchair, he and his wife have a very good sex life, and yes it does work! Don’t discount this story just because he is a parapalegic.

NeverSubmit on May 29, 2007 at 10:45 AM

Apparently the Israeli Police failed to read the bumper sticker….”Don’t come a knockin, if this Jeeps a rockin”

soulsirkus on May 29, 2007 at 10:54 AM

Back seat of a JEEP ?? oh, well.

gary on May 29, 2007 at 6:29 PM

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