A man who detonated a bomb on a Tel Aviv bus last month was recruited and equipped by military intelligence agents of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli security sources. The sources said Abdallah Abu Jaber, a Jordanian citizen working in Israel, was recruited and given the bomb by the agents.
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