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 Bomber planned to use cyanide in Netanya attack: Israel Wed Jun 05 2002 09:27:11 ET A suicide bomber who killed 29 people in the Israeli town of Netanya on March 27 had planned to disperse cyanide with the blast, making the operation more deadly, an Israeli general was quoted as saying Wednesday. Abdelbaset Odeih, who staged the so-called Passover bombing in the Park Hotel, was foiled by a last-minute technical difficulty, General Aaron Zeevi, Israeli military intelligence chief, said, according to the daily Maariv paper. Zeevi revealed this to the parliament's foreign affairs and security committee on Monday, the paper said. The attack, which struck on the night of the religious feast of the Jewish passover, was the worst of its kind to hit the country, and was claimed by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. Two days later on March 29, the Israeli army launched the devastating "Defensive Walls " offensive on the West Bank Palestinian autonomous areas which ended on May 10. Israeli security forces have been on the alert lately for a "mega-attack", and on Monday held a drill in Givatayim near Tel Aviv to train rescue and security services to deal with a scenario of a plane crashing into a building while a large bomb goes off in a basement where toxic chemicals are stored. Last month, a near-disaster was averted when a bomb set fire to a tanker in the country's main fuel depot in a densely populated suburb of Tel Aviv but failed to ignite the vast reserves, an incident which experts said could have killed thousands of people. Also last month, the Israeli army claimed it foiled a plot to blow up the Azrieli Tower skyscraper in Tel Aviv when it seized a large bomb in a raid on the Palestinian West Bank town of Qalqilya. |
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