They were armed with hand grenades and explosives. One wore a bomb belt.On interrogation, they told Egyptian police who captured them that they belonged to The Army of Islam, the al-Qaeda-Palestinian cell which took part in the abduction of Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit 16 months ago and BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who was later freed.Four of them reached Sinai through a tunnel from the Gaza Strip and were driven by an Egyptian driver who was to have dropped them along the Egyptian-Israeli border. Three were captured; one escaped back into Gaza.As in the days of Noah....

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