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Tel Aviv Bombing Fourth Since Passover Began

Aired March 30, 2002 - 22:24   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: That bombing in Tel Aviv was the fourth such attack aimed at Israelis since Passover began. CNN's Ben Wedeman is on the scene with the latest there.

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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just hours after the end of the Jewish sabbath, suicide bomber walked into the My (ph) Coffee Place, a popular Tel Aviv coffee shop on Allenby Street. Inside, he blew himself up, leaving 29 people at least wounded, one critically injured, a woman, and six seriously wounded.

According to Palestinian sources, the bomber was Mohammed Selahad (ph), 22 or 23-years old, from the Nablis area in the northern West Bank. According to those sources, he was a member of the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group affiliated to the Fatah movement of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

This, as Israel ends its second day of what it is calling an extensive military operation against Palestinian terrorism. This operation, however, doesn't seem to be working.

I'm Ben Wedeman, CNN, reporting from Tel Aviv.

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