EGYPT
Sources: Terrorists Planned to Attack Three Sinai Hotels Simultaneously
from Ha'aretz on Friday, October 08, 2004
Article ID: D154848
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent Israeli security experts participating in probe of bombings; Ras Satan car bombs may have exploded prematurely due to technical problem. Israeli security officials are participating in the investigation into the terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, according to sources in Jerusalem. Officially, however, the government has not confirmed that Israeli agents are participating in the probe, primarily because of Egyptian reticence to admit that there is cooperation between the two countries in the field of security.
The initial results of probe suggest that the two car bombs that exploded in the resort of Ras Satan were originally designed to blow up at different Sinai hotels. Egyptian security sources told their Israeli counterparts that the terrorists had planned to blow up three hotels, but that two blew up prematurely.
Investigators probing the Taba bombing say that the vehicle used to carry out the attacks, in all probability a truck, was laden with a huge quantity of explosives. It is still not clear whether the bomb was detonated by remote control, or whether a suicide bomber drove it into the hotel.
Israeli sources say that had received four pieces of intelligence information regarding planned attacks in Sinai. Three of these related to planned attacks by Palestinians, while the fourth indicated that a global Islamic group was planning an attack.
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