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(IsraelNN.com) IDF officials said Tuesday that a terrorist arrested in the Samaria village of Kfar Kadum on Monday was responsible for a series of shooting attacks.  The terrorist, Fatah member Mussa Ahmed Daoud Akel, was responsible for a shooting attack in October of 2007 in which an Israeli man was seriously wounded.

Akel was a member of the PA police force in Ramallah.  Members of the PA police have been responsible for two fatal shooting attacks in recent months, in which Israeli citizens Achikam Amichai, David Rubin, and Ido Zoldan were murdered.

Akel turned himself in to Israeli troops on Monday night after troops surrounded his house for several hours, threatening to destroy the building if he did not come out.  He has been taken to security services for questioning.