(Reuters) - Dan Williams Two Britons who carried out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv were recruited to the Palestinian militant group Hamas by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, Israel's military chief of staff Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon told Army Radio on Wednesday. Israeli officials said Hanif and Sharif spent time in Syria before entering Israel via Jordan. From there, they entered Gaza, linked up with Hamas, and used their British passports to re-enter Israel and strike in Tel Aviv, officials said. According to the intelligence journal Jane's, the bombers carried a copy of the Koran that contained so-called "datasheets," refined plastic explosive rolled to resemble normal paper pages.
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