Friday night, April 28, the al Qaeda cell announced they are waiting for the final signal to execute the order they received in mid-week to "revive the traditional sacrifice of apostates" against four Palestinian targets.
They are identified as Fatah followers of Mahmoud Abbas: former interior minister and Gaza strongman Muhammad Dahlan, prominent West Bank figure Yasser Abd Rabbo, deputy chief of GazaÂ’s Preventive Security Service Samir Mashrawi, and Abu Ali Shihin, an old Yasser Arafat crony from Rafah.
The statement is signed "Al Tawhid al Jihad of the Levant and Egypt," the group which took responsibility for the Sharm el-Sheikh bombing attacks on July 23, 2005, the Katyusha rocket attacks on US ships and the Israeli port of Eilat a month later, the bombing attacks on Amman hotels on Nov. 9, 2005 and the rocket strike against N. Israel from Lebanon on Jan. 5, 2006.
The same group has also claimed this weekÂ’s suicide attacks against the Sinai resort of Dahab in which at least 34 people lost their lives.
The personal videotape released by al QaedaÂ’s Iraq commander, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, on April 27, contained a specific threat to attack Israel. DEBKAfile reported then that the tape portended further terrorist action in view of the Iraq-based terroristÂ’s marked predilection for serial strikes.
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