Israel Matzav

Deadly terror attack foiled

I'm sure that a lot of you missed this, but a powerful, cell phone activated bomb was discovered on the Egyptian-Israeli border on Tuesday. IDF robots detonated the bomb. The picture above is of some of the shrapnel which was added to the bomb to make it more deadly.

"The bomb was meant to hurt people, and its long-distance activation mechanism would have allowed it to be detonated safely by the terrorist," an officer from the army's elite combat engineering unit said. "If the explosive was activated in a mall, a bus, a town or near an IDF unit, we would have been dealing with a different kind of story."

According to the preliminary investigation, the belt was hidden in a bag that was thrown over the border from the Egyptian side into Israel. An elite force that was laying in ambush detected the terrorist, who escaped back into Sinai.

Large IDF forces were deployed to the scene, closed off the area and used robotic equipment to study the bomb from afar. It was then detonated in a controlled environment. When the troops studied the aftermath they discovered a cell phone meant for the bomb's remote activation.

Aren't you glad we got rid of Mubarak and put the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian army in charge of security in Sinai?

Labels: Egyptian army, Hosni Mubarak, Islamic terrorism, Muslim Brotherhood, Sinai

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:06 AM