Jerusalem, June 03: Israeli police has ruled any involvement by Osama bin Laden`s al-Qaeda terror network inthe April 30 suicide attack against a popular Tel Aviv pub, police sources said. The investigation also revealed that an Italian journalist had given the two British bombers` a ride to the West Bank and then to the Gaza Strip, where they obtained the explosives for their operation, the sources said. The journalist, a woman whose name was not revealed, was not aware that the two men she drove were about to commit a suicide attack. Three people were killed when a British bomber blew himself up at the entrance of Mike`s Place, becoming the first foreign suicide bomber since the beginning of the Intifada.


An accomplice escaped after failing to detonate his explosives. His body was found floating off the beach two weeks later. Bureau Report