Although intelligence warnings of terrorism attacks continue to be received, the general alert in the north has been called off after several days of tense uncertainty there. Security agencies succeeded in tracking down the remaining two members of an Islamic Jihad cell that was responsible for the failed massive bomb attack in Haifa on Sunday.



The first of the three-man cell brought a multi-bomb pack to the city, but apparently changed his mind soon afterwards and separated the bombs from the detonators. Alert police officers, among the many deployed there that day in search of the terrorists, noticed his suspicious movements and apprehended him: he at first insisted that he was in Haifa only to find work. Even after he finally admitted that his intentions were terrorist in nature, he refused for several tense hours to divulge where he had placed the bombs. He broke down and led the police to the spot sometime in the afternoon. Later that evening, one of his murderous cohorts was arrested at a roadblock between Haifa and Afula, while the other was surrounded in his home in the Arab village of Anin and was killed when he tried to escape.