[Lion's Cub]

"(Brahim) was involved in financial activities for the network such as buying and selling boats and computer equipment," a civil guard spokesman said.

My, my, my. We know why they needed computer equipment, but what do you suppose they wanted with boats? That opens up a lot of possibilities...

[aristeides]

Remember how the package hijacker Jarrah mailed to his Turkish girlfriend in Germany right before 9/11 contained documentation of his flying and diving lessons?

[aristeides]

Speaking of boats, I think I've read that some of the terrorist attacks in recent weeks on Israeli coastal towns might have been mounted through boats.

Today's Washington Post has an article on the Passover bombing in Netanya (a coastal resort), A Short Journey From Friend to Foe: Cities Linked by Attack Shared Hopes for Peace . It contains this interesting paragraph:

Investigators do not know for certain how Odeh made his way to Netanya that day, according to Lt. Col. Avi Biran, the city's police chief. He could have walked from Tulkarm to Taibe, then taken a taxi west, as did Mahmoud Ahmad Marmash, the man who bombed the Sharon Mall. Or someone could have driven him down an unguarded road from any number of West Bank towns and villages. There was nothing to stop him, no way to elude his fatal embrace. "If somebody wants to get in, there's no border, no fences," Biran said.

No mention of a sea route, but the bomber Odeh had disappeared from his home town of Tulkarm several months before the bombing. Who's to say he was located in a place that require movement over land?