(Yediot Ahronot/Ha'aretz) - General Security Services head Avi Dichter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday that the damage caused to Israel by Hamas leader Salah Shehada equaled the damage Osama bin Laden caused America on September 11. Dichter revealed that since the end of Operation Defensive Shield in May, the security services have apprehended 138 potential homicide bombers. Sixty warnings of planned homicide bombings have been received, he told the committee.
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