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TEL AVIV – The suicide bombing here last night that killed four Israelis and wounded over 50 was funded and directed by Hezbollah forces, which may have paid up to $100,000 for the attack, security sources told WorldNetDaily.
A suicide bomber detonated a powerful explosive, reportedly about 66 pounds, around 11:30 p.m. last night among patrons waiting outside the seaside nightclub Stage in the packed Herbert Samuel promenade popular with young Israelis.
The three main terror groups – Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades – denied involvement, and none hung the customary posters of congratulations at the bomber's home. An Islamic Jihad cell had earlier taken credit for the blast, but the faction's leadership in the Gaza Strip denied any knowledge, considered an unusual response if indeed the group was responsible.
The bomber was identified as Abdullah Badran, 21, a university student from the village of Deir al-Ghusun near the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Earlier today, Israeli forces arrested two of Badran's brothers and four neighbors, including a local mosque preacher. It was not immediately clear whether all were suspects, or if the brothers were taken to provide DNA samples for identification of the bomber.
Israeli security sources, working in part with Palestinian preventative security, say a group of terrorists, mostly from Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and some from Islamic Jihad, working for Hezbollah, was responsible for the blast. They say Hezbollah has created a terror apparatus of Palestinian militants in the West Bank receiving full-time salaries from the Lebanese group.
Palestinian security the past few weeks has intercepted a series of communications, including phone calls and e-mails, between Hezbollah and West Bank terrorists indicating Hezbollah had been trying to recruit suicide bombers to carry out attacks that would sabotage a truce reached by Israel and the Palestinian Authority earlier this month, sources say.
One official said intercepted bank transactions suggested Hezbollah had raised its cash offers to Palestinian terrorists and is now willing to pay $100,000 for a suicide bombing operation. In the past, information indicated Hezbollah would pay $20,000 for such attacks.
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