http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/31/israel.uk.embassy.ap/index.html

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"JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police commandos stormed the British Embassy late Thursday and captured a Palestinian man holed up inside. There were no reports of injuries. The man had burst into the embassy several hours earlier, demanding political asylum. After capturing the man, Israeli police said he was wielding a plastic gun. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld earlier had said the man was armed with a pistol. Embassy spokeswoman Karen Kaufman confirmed the man was arrested. "As far as the embassy is concerned, the event is over," she said. The man burst into the embassy earlier Thursday demanding political asylum, saying in a dramatic interview on live television that he would rather die than return to the West Bank. Nadim Injaz, 28, a resident of the West Bank city of Ramallah and suspected informer for the Israeli security services, infiltrated the embassy in Tel Aviv by jumping a fence. He remained inside the compound for several hours. He said he was demanding asylum, fearing Palestinian militants will kill him, and threatened to commit suicide. "They will either take me out of here to Europe, or as a body," Injaz, speaking Hebrew, told Channel 2 television. He said he was forced to take the dramatic step after Israeli authorities rebuffed repeated demands for help. "If no one comes to help me soon to save my life, I will finish myself here." Injaz said militants in the West Bank told him that he would only be allowed to return to Ramallah if he carried out a suicide bombing. He said he chose this path instead. "I don't want to kill children," he said in tears in a separate television interview with Channel 10 TV. "I want to be taken from here, I don't want to be here." Anti-terrorist units surrounded the site. The embassy, on the Tel Aviv seafront, is ringed by a fence, and visitors are normally screened by security guards at the gate. Police officials said Injaz managed to jump the fence of the compound but was stopped by security before he could enter the building. Embassy spokeswoman Karen Kaufman said an investigation would be launched into how the man breached security. Police officials said Injaz was apparently a Palestinian informer for Israeli security services and had encountered financial and legal troubles. Injaz said he has petitioned Israeli courts and contacted local media and human rights groups to win residency rights in Israel. Injaz said he would be killed if forced to return to Ramallah because he had collaborated with Israel, police officials said. Injaz initially positioned himself inside the parking lot of the embassy."

I can barely imagine being put in that position.

8/31/2006 4:37:21 PM

That's pretty terrifying.

8/31/2006 4:57:22 PM

I just can't imagine being so desperate that I'd break into an embassy. I don't even want to know what those thugs plan on doing to him.

8/31/2006 4:57:54 PM

If they just kick him back to the West Bank and the durka durkas go after him he can use their training against them and totally kick their asses. He can fight his would be assasins and find out where they head bad guy is and kill his way to the top and then kill the bad guy after saying an awesome one liner like "Sherp sherp... BAKALA!" and then he kills the bad guy in some totally bitching way and they make a sweet movie out of it.

8/31/2006 4:58:22 PM

^^which thugs?

8/31/2006 4:59:18 PM

I'm wondering what the Israelis will do with him. Even as an intelligence asset, he's fucked. He can't work for the Mossad again, and I doubt they'd allow him to emigrate anywhere either.

8/31/2006 4:59:46 PM

Uh the ones that wanted him to blow himself up in the attempt to kill as many innocents as possible. The Muslim ones.

8/31/2006 4:59:49 PM

I nominate this guy for today's "having the worst day of his life" award.

8/31/2006 5:04:23 PM

Haha instant winner.

8/31/2006 5:05:52 PM

Of course, if I were a palestinian trying to get asylum somewhere, thats probably the same shit that I would say.

8/31/2006 5:07:25 PM

He was an informer, I bet he had a good reason to seek asylum. Probably even the reason he claimed.

8/31/2006 5:09:18 PM

i still think my idea is the best.

8/31/2006 5:11:23 PM

I'm wondering if this guy was a double agent. Seriously.

8/31/2006 5:43:44 PM

Man, this is sad.

Poor guy... he sold his sould to work as an informer for the Israelis, and now, he is going to lose his life too, if the Israelis don't give him residence rights in Israel.

The Palestinians hate Palestinian informers more than they hate Israelis. When they are found out (or even suspected sometimes), they are lynched on the streets in a mob frenzy. I have seen pictures of informers hung from bridges and Palestinians putting out cigarettes on their bodies. Sick, I tell you. And the lucky few who actually face the courts over their activities, are usually given the death sentence (whether youu agree with that or not, remember, most countries give that for treason).

Anyway, let's see what the Israelis do. If they turn him over to the Palestinians, we will come to know how humane they say they are while denouncing Palestinians for barbarism.

8/31/2006 9:21:16 PM

Sold his soul? I guess Israel really is Satan to you, that's kind of sad. Neither side here is the good guy.

8/31/2006 9:45:43 PM

man, it would be the shit if we didnt have any religion at all

9/1/2006 2:20:52 AM

^I admit, without religion it would be entertaining to see what excuse they would all then come up with .

9/1/2006 7:25:54 AM

Keep smoking up Lucky, Imagine all the people...








getting nothing done...you hooo...you may say that I'm a dreamer...

9/1/2006 7:27:31 AM

By and large humanity as a whole isn't mature enough to stand without religion.

9/1/2006 9:12:57 AM

yeah it seems like people use religion as a crutch

9/1/2006 2:29:08 PM

I think of it more as a placeholder for understanding, with a compelling emotional element that can help some, and is totally destructive in others.

Or, as I put it a different time...

Religion is ethics with a plot.

[Edited on September 1, 2006 at 2:34 PM. Reason : .]

9/1/2006 2:33:57 PM