Jerusalem - Investigators probing the December 22 bus
Bombing in Bat Yam now say that the explosive device detonated was similar to
those used in the Boston Marathon Bombings back in April.
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL reports that the device -a pressure
cooker filled with nails and screws-closely resembles the same ones Dzhokar
and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are alleged to have assembled from instructions placed on
an al-Qaeda website.
Officials also announced that 14 arrests have been made
associated with the Bat Yam bombing, and that through “intensive intelligence
work” investigators were able to crack a terror cell.
Thanks to the alertness of a bus passenger, no one was
injured in the Bat Yam attack, but the bus was destroyed when the device
unexpectedly went off while bomb squad experts were attempting to diffuse it.
According to the report, four of the suspects are Islamic
Jihad operatives from Bethlehem who had subsequent plans to execute a larger
bombing attack in Tel Aviv.
Yusef Salamah, 22, Shehada Ta’amri, 24, Hamdi Ta’amri, 21
and Sami Harimi, 20, are the four operatives named in the report.
Officials say both Harimi brothers have previously served
time in Israeli prisons, and that the younger, Sami, is a Palestinian Authority
police officer currently enrolled in officer training school in Jericho.
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