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Israel Foils Al-Qaeda Plot to Blow Up U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv
(AP-Washington Post) Israel on Wednesday said it had foiled an "advanced" al-Qaeda plan to carry out a suicide bombing on the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and bomb other targets. The Israel Security Agency arrested three Palestinians who plotted the attacks. They were recruited by an operative based in Gaza who worked for al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The Palestinians planned on attacking the International Convention Center in Jerusalem with firearms and then killing rescue workers with a truck bomb. Al-Qaeda planned to send foreign militants to attack the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv on the same day using explosives supplied by the Palestinians. Five men were to fly into Israel with fake Russian passports to attack the American Embassy. Aviv Oreg, a former head of the Israeli military intelligence unit that tracks al-Qaeda, said, "This is the first time that Ayman al-Zawahri was directly involved."