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Al-Qaeda Plotted Multiple Terror Attacks in Israel after 9/11, FBI Agent Says
(Times of Israel) Al-Qaeda planned to carry out massive terrorist attacks simultaneously at several Israeli nightclubs in 2002 and was in the final stages of the plan, but was thwarted with the help of U.S. intelligence operatives, former FBI researcher Ali Soufan told Yediot Ahronot on Friday. The details of the plot had previously been blocked for publication by the CIA and have only now been cleared for publication. The information was obtained during interrogations, at a secret CIA black site, of Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, a Palestinian al-Qaeda operative who was captured by the U.S. in March 2002. The U.S. said he was a longtime ally of Osama bin Laden.