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Israel Indicts Palestinian for Working with Al-Qaeda, Holding Biological Weapons
(Ha'aretz) Chaim Levinson - A Palestinian has been indicted in an Israeli military court on suspicion of being an al-Qaeda activist who possessed biological weapons and planned to train other Palestinians in their use. Samar al-Barak, from the West Bank town of Kalkilya, studied microbiology in Pakistan. In 1998 he underwent military training in Afghanistan and was recruited into al-Qaeda in 2001. In August 2010 he was arrested at the Jordanian border. According to the indictment, he practiced killing dogs with poisons and was tasked with developing biological weapons by the head of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. He learned to use the botulinum toxin and agreed to train other Palestinians to use it.