ISA AND ISRAEL POLICE FOIL TERRORIST PLOT TO POISON FOOD AT RAMAT GAN
RESTAURANT(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Office)

Thursday, 10 April, 2008

The following has been released for publication:

The ISA and the Israel Police, on 19.3.08, arrested Ihab Yehye Ahmed Abu
Rial and Anas Mustafa Said Salum, residents of Nablus, both born in 1987.
They admitted to planning a perpetrate a terrorist attack by poisoning food
at the restaurant where they worked in Ramat Gan, despite lacking valid
permits to be present in Israel..

The two men were recruited into a military cell of the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, directed and financed by Hezbollah. They were due to receive the
tasteless, odorless white powder poison from Hosni Tzalag and Hani Ka'abi,
fugitives from the Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus. Abu Rial and Said Salum
sought a poison, the effects of which would not be felt for approximately
four hours, in order to poison as many people as possible. They were
arrested several days before they intended to perpetrate their attack.

They also admitted that Hosni Tzalag had asked them about the possibility of
helping to infiltrate a suicide-terrorist into Israel.

It should be emphasized that the terrorist infrastructure headed by Hani
Ka'abi is currently active in attempting to perpetrate other terrorist
attacks, possibly with the assistance of other Palestinians illegally
present in Israel.