The actual bombing had been planned for Passover. From Reuters, with thanks to David:
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Hamas militant drove a powerful car bomb into the Tel Aviv area last month but returned to the occupied West Bank without carrying out an attack, Israel's Shin Bet security service said on Tuesday.There was no immediate comment from Hamas, an Islamist group that heads the Palestinian unity government. Hamas last carried out a bombing in Israel in 2004, one of 60 such attacks the group launched since a Palestinian uprising that began in 2000.
In a statement, the Shin Bet said a member of a Hamas cell in Qalqilya, a West Bank city near central Israel, drove a commercial vehicle laden with about 100 kg (220 lb) of explosives into the Tel Aviv region last month.
"But the attack was not carried out and the vehicle was returned to Qalqilya," the security service said, without elaborating, in a statement faxed to Reuters.
The vehicle later exploded in a "work accident" in Qalqilya, the Shin Bet said, using an Israeli term for a technical malfunction. The statement did not say if the blast caused any casualties.
Nineteen members of a Hamas cell in Qalqilya suspected of involvement in the planned bombing, timed for the Jewish Passover holiday, were arrested by Israeli security forces, the Shin Bet said. Their names were not released.
But they deserve a state. Condhimmi said so.
From above:
From numerous JW/DW posts:
Divinely inspired justice.
...and dhimmicrat congressmen and senators are meeting with Hamas leaders to demonstrate that unity is possible....
......the same dhimmicrats who condone a ban on prayer in school, agree to the removal of the ten commandments from public view, object to the flying of the American flag in front of private homes and some public places, want to cut the funding of military supplies to our combat soldiers, and who support socialized medicine and government welfare...
That tells me all I want to know, what a nice sting. Israelis discover bomb, deactivate it, then boobytrap it. Terrorists wonder what happen, go and check, see vehicle is still in place think that something is wrong with the timing mechanism and bring it back to try again. Boom work accident. Nice one Israel.
A "work accident" eh? Has OSHA been informed?
"Hamas last carried out a bombing in Israel in 2004,"
...this is incorrect, see:
August 28, 2005: A suicide bombing outside the Central Bus Station in Beersheba severly injured two security guards who stopped the bomber from entering the bus station.
January 13, 2005: Six Israelis were killed and five other civilians were wounded in a double suicide bombing at the Karni crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The two suicide bombers used a very large explosive device to blast through a defensive wall that separates the Israeli and Palestinian sides at the crossing. Following the blast, the bombers crossed into the Israeli side, carrying explosives on their bodies, which they detonated.
Well thank God nothing happened on Passover like in 2000 (or was it 2001) during the recent intifada. This time it was safe.
oh abu lets bomb here
oh abu lets bomb
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Something to look forward to once we take in the 3000 Palis at the behest of the UN.
In code this story reads, an Israeli agent in Hamas built a non working car bomb and a dupe drove it to Tel Aviv where the person could not get the thing to go off.
He returned to Gaza and there it was detonated.
The apparent sharing of this story is now more important than the cover of the agent in trying to get Olmert or the next government to be elected to be proactive in going in and fighting this out this summer.
May Hammas suffer from many work accidents.
Hamas is a health hazard...
I say this is Israels fault. hammas, fattah scattah and all that outher mo crap would not exist without Israels blessings!
"all that outher mo crap would not exist without Israels blessings!
Posted by: AMartinez at April 10, 2007 07:54 PM "
......well....Israel did give them millions of dollars
......Israel did release their frozen bank accounts...
......Israel did give them a boatload of new weapons....
......Israel did release a boatload of prisoners (who are now able to use those new weapons, provided by Israel)
......Israel did give up land (which was acquired by the spilling of Islaeli blood in previous conflicts) and the land which has strategic locations from which assaults on Israeli can be launched.
....I see it now...Israel is committing suicide...
This just in...
Actually the real reason why they "inexplicably" (term used in another report on same subject) returned without commencing their homicide bombing, often careening on & off the road in the process:
One of the IDF guys took our advice:
Throw into the cab one of shaitans works of evil:
a can of SPAM, at the checkpoint they ran.
The islamoterrorists panic trying to secure and remove shaitans evil work, SPAM, driving all over the road careening uncontrollably, so they return back to their headquarters and jumped out as fast as they could from the dreaded work of shaitan called SPAM.
Unfortunately for them someone "pressed the little red button" on the way out, expediting their trip to the hereafter a little faster than they would have preferred, all without taking out any jew, christian, or other infidel.
A wasted trip to the hereafter-a total loss of virgin access.
*snickering*
;-)