IDF: Egyptian Bedouin Behind August Attack

(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz - The IDF has concluded that the terrorists who carried out the August 18 attack along the Egyptian border were all Bedouin from Sinai. Several terrorists opened fire at Israeli cars traveling along the border road. Eight Israelis were killed in the attack. The cell that carried out the attack numbered 20 terrorists, most of whom remained inside Egypt, launching their attack from the cover of a nearby Egyptian military post. Three of the terrorists killed in Israel were wearing explosive suicide bomb belts.


2012-01-06 00:00:00

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