Let's Go To The Video Tape

A security video was released today showing that Arab who was killed while attacking people near a yeshiva in Jerusalem on Friday was not some innocent dupe as his family claimed and indeed grabbed the security guard's gun and fired it repeatedly at the guard and nearby pedestrians.

Surveillance videos clearly show Ahmad Mahmoud Khatib - perpetrator of the Friday shooting in the Old City of Jerusalem - stealing a gun from a security guard and shooting him, despite claims to the contrary by his family. Jerusalem police authorized the publication of the surveillance tapes on Sunday.


Khatib grabbed a weapon from a guard of the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva and then set off through the Old City's street shooting back wildly at another yeshiva guard who pursued him. Ten bystanders and one of the guards were injured in the crossfire before the shooter was killed.

Khatib's acquaintances and relatives of the shooter expressed disbelief that he had been involved in the incident at all, saying he "was a quiet and introverted person… simply a person who is incapable of doing such a thing".

Some acquaintances went as far as to say that incident was made up by the two security guards in order to avoid murder charges, claiming that "there is no evidence" that Khatib had tried to snatch the gun and that the incident constituted "first-degree murder" in which the man was "killed for nothing".

So much for the family claims that Khatib had been innocent singled out and targeted by security officials. If there's someone who was engaged in murder in this incident, it was Khatib, who purposefully engaged in stealing the security guard's gun and shooting him to death.

An Arab MK, Ahmed Tibi, repeated this baseless claim in the Knesset, but the video gives lie to such nonsense.

UPDATE:
Via LGF, here's the video of the incident released by the Jerusalem Post: