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Friday January 12, 1996

`The Engineer' devised death and destruction in Israel

JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Yehiya Ayash, called "the Engineer" because he studied chemical engineering and devised bombs, was directly r
The following is a list of attacks he was believed to have been involved in:

*A few weeks later, another booby-trapped van was driven into the bus parking lot at the Mehola junction in the Jordan Valley, and exploded next to a bus. All the buses in the lot were empty, however; the suicide bomber and a worker in the adjacent restaurant were killed.

*January 1994: A bomb exploded at an Israeli army firing range in Rosh Ha'ayin. Two soldiers were wounded.

*Feb. 19, 1994: Ayash was involved in the shooting death of Zippora Sasson, who was in a car on the Trans-Samaria Highway.

*April 6, 1994: A suicide car bomber drove up to a bus in Afula taking on passengers, including schoolchildren, and detonated the bomb. Eight people were killed and 44 wounded.

*April 13, 1994: A suicide bomber set off a pipe bomb he was carrying at the Hadera Central Bus Station. Five people were killed and 29 wounded.

*Oct. 19, 1994: Bus No. 5 is blown up on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. Twenty-two were killed and 46 wounded.

*Dec. 25, 1994: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a bus carrying soldiers outside the Jerusalem International Convention Center. Twelve people were wounded.

*July 24, 1995: A suicide bomber blew himself up on Bus No. 20 in Ramat Gan, as it passed near the Diamond Exchange. Six people were killed and 31 wounded.

*Aug. 21, 1995: A suicide bomber blew himself up on a Jerusalem bus, near the Rene Cassin High School in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood. Seven people were killed, including former San Franciscan Joan Davenny, and 107 were wounded.

Ayash was apparently not involved in the fatal suicide bombings at Beit Lid last January and in Netzarim last April.

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