Posted on 03/21/2009 2:58:51 PM PDT by fella
Mar 21, 2009 22:05 | Updated Mar 21, 2009 23:45
Major Terror Car Bombing Averted at Haifa's Lev Hamifratz Mall
By YAAKOV LAPPIN
A major terrorist car bombing was averted at a Haifa mall on Saturday night when one of several explosive devices hidden in a parked vehicle malfunctioned.
After being alerted by an employee of the Lev Hamifratz shopping center, who reported hearing an explosion, police sappers were dispatched to scan the area.
The sappers found a partially exploded bomb in the trunk of a white Subaru car which was parked outside the shopping center, and registered to a woman who lives in Jerusalem. A further search of the vehicle uncovered several more unexploded bombs, containing dozens of kilograms of explosive material, which were neutralized by the sappers.
"We believe this is a terrorist incident," a police statement said.
Police immediately moved to evacuate the mall, which was filled with shoppers at the time, and sealed off the area. A major traffic route adjacent to the mall was also closed off to traffic, as police went on high alert across the Haifa area.
On the ground, roadblocks sprang up and police presence was increased in crowded areas.
It was not immediately clear how the vehicle managed to get past security checks at the entrance to the mall.
A joint police-Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) meeting was held in the hours following the incident.
"We received a call at 20:30 from the mall reporting an explosion heard outside," Northern Police Head Cmdr. Moshe Koren said. "Additional explosives were then discovered."
No one was injured in the incident
I wonder if she had any visitors today.
This was the Hand of G-D
Barukh Hashem!
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073099.html
Last update - 02:37 23/03/2009
“PA source: Iran-backed group may be behind Haifa bomb attempt”
By Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel and Fadi Eyadat
Tags: Haifa Terror, Israel News
SNIPPET: “A senior source in the Palestinian Authority told Haaretz Sunday that he suspects Hezbollah or another organization with links to Iran was behind the attempted bombing of the Lev Hamifratz shopping mall in Haifa on Saturday night.
According to the source, the PA holds definitive intelligence that Hezbollah has been trying for some time to recruit members of Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in an attempt to get operatives of those terror groups to carry out an attack in Israel.
The aim of the Lebanese Shi’ite group is to carry out a massive terrorist attack that would avenge the assassination of its mastermind terrorist, Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus in February 2008, the Palestinian source said. Hezbollah blames Israel for Mughniyeh’s death.
Last week, two police officers were killed in the Jordan Valley, and an anonymous caller claimed responsibility in the name of the Mughniyeh Units.”
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3690382,00.html
Police: 30,000 people were in range of thwarted terror attack
Published: 03.22.09, 19:02 / Israel News
Northern District Police Commander Shimon Koren bestowed a certificate of honor upon police sappers who dismantled an explosive device found near a Haifa mall Saturday.
“Thirty thousand people were in danger of being injured,” Koren said. (Ahiya Raved)
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