An alert secretary in the Labor Party-affiliated Beit Berl College, outside Kfar Saba, helped prevent a major Palestinian terrorist attack today. She noticed a bag with suspicious wires alongside the college fence, and quickly alerted police. Upon arrival, they saw that it was connected to a cellular phone, which was to be its detonator, and police sappers neutralized it. The college is presently not in session due to the Passover vacation, but many students and faculty members are on campus for administrative and research purposes. Police believe that the terrorists were unaware of the vacation schedule.
Brig.-Gen. Amichai Shai, Commander of the Sharon Police District, told reporters that the 3-kilo explosive device was packed with an arsenal of nails, screws, metal ball bearings, razor blades, and even knives - all designed to intensify injuries. "If that bomb had gone off in a classroom or auditorium," Shai said, "it would have caused the same kind of damage as we saw in the Hebrew University bombing last year [when nine people were killed]."
An even larger explosive device, weighing 15 kilograms, was found near the Binyamin community of Psagot this afternoon. Sappers safely detonated it as well.
In other Oslo War news, wanted PFLP terrorist Yasser Ahmed Halili was captured in the kasbah market in Shechem (20 miles east of Netanya) as he was preparing to depart for a terror attack in an Israeli city today. An accomplice, Nidal Fakiyah of the PLO-Fatah terror organization, was apprehended with him. Over the night, ten terrorist suspects were arrested in Judea and Samaria.
Brig.-Gen. Amichai Shai, Commander of the Sharon Police District, told reporters that the 3-kilo explosive device was packed with an arsenal of nails, screws, metal ball bearings, razor blades, and even knives - all designed to intensify injuries. "If that bomb had gone off in a classroom or auditorium," Shai said, "it would have caused the same kind of damage as we saw in the Hebrew University bombing last year [when nine people were killed]."
An even larger explosive device, weighing 15 kilograms, was found near the Binyamin community of Psagot this afternoon. Sappers safely detonated it as well.
In other Oslo War news, wanted PFLP terrorist Yasser Ahmed Halili was captured in the kasbah market in Shechem (20 miles east of Netanya) as he was preparing to depart for a terror attack in an Israeli city today. An accomplice, Nidal Fakiyah of the PLO-Fatah terror organization, was apprehended with him. Over the night, ten terrorist suspects were arrested in Judea and Samaria.