TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Police sappers Tuesday detonated a bomb found in the home of a navy commodore, and Israeli media said the Al-Aksa Brigades of the Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for planting it.
The officer, Commodore Natan Barak who is responsible for computers in the Navy, told police he found a fire extinguisher wrapped in a blanket when he woke up at 5.30 a.m. in his home in Raanana, north east of Tel Aviv. He reportedly took it into the street and alerted police bomb squad who detonated it.
The extinguisher contained 5 kilos of makeshift explosives, a well- placed police source told UPI.
The al-Aksa Brigades of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah-Tanzim militia reportedly assumed responsibility for the incident. They said it was a message to the officer and others "whose hands are filled with others' blood."
Palestinian attackers have never resorted to such tactics and a well-placed security source said he was not sure militants planted the bomb. "There are many strange things about it," the source told UPI.
