Temple Stories 2006-03

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Arabs Make Charges Over Temple Mount
Jewish Exponent

JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israel's Islamic Movement accused Jews of secretly building a synagogue under the Al Aksa Mosque.

Movement leader Sheik Raed Salah claimed that Jews have prayed in a five-room complex built under cover of excavations on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, 100 yards from the site of Al Aksa.

Salah has a history of fabricating incendiary charges about the Temple Mount to whip up Muslim anger against Israel.

Israel's Antiquities Authority said his latest salvo had no basis in reality: "Archaeological excavations have never been carried out, and are not being carried out today, under the Temple Mount compound," it said in a statement.

Salah's accusation was echoed by Ikrima Sabri, the Palestinian Authority-appointed mufti of Jerusalem, who said the Temple Mount had never even housed Jewish shrines.

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