An army spokesman admitted responsibility, but stressed that the monk, who is now in hospital in west Jerusalem, had been dressed in civilian clothes and "looked armed".
[link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1926000/1926332.stm|Link.] Note that while the link is to "the thoroughly biased and PLO controlled BBC site", the admission was also mentioned in dead tree version of the Charlotte Observer.