(Ha'aretz) Israel's security establishment last week prevented a suicide bombing planned for central Tel Aviv, according to details released Monday, Army Radio said. Following his arrest in Askar in the West Bank on Sunday, Tanzim member Ahmed Ashkar, 18, said he had set out in the direction of Tel Aviv last Tuesday, accompanied by a number of other Palestinians, with an explosive device hidden in a computer monitor. When they reached the town of Bidya, near Elkana, the terrorists spotted an IDF unit, causing them to hide the device and flee. The bomb was uncovered Monday.
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