Posted on 06/02/2003 6:15:39 PM PDT by Mr. Mulliner
Jun. 3, 2003
Two French citizens with alleged ties to Mike's Place bombers deported
By ETGAR LEFKOVITSTwo French nationals with suspected ties to the two British Muslims bombers who carried out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in April have been deported from the country, Jerusalem police revealed Sunday night.
The two suspects, an Algerian-born Muslim and a Christian, were arrested in an east Jerusalem hotel two days after the April 30 suicide bombing at a popular Tel Aviv pub, Mike's Place, an attack that killed 3 people.
A gag order that was imposed on the case was lifted Monday morning.
The two French tourists - who were identified only by their first names Kamal and Emmanuel - told Shin Bet investigators that they knew the two British bombers, but said they did not know of their intentions to carry out a suicide bombing, police said.
A search of their east Jerusalem hotel room uncovered several M-16 cartridges, pictures of them with the bombers, with Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, as well as pictures of police sappers dealing with a suspicious object, and photos of the two donning skullcaps at the Western Wall.
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