PALESTINIAN AL QAEDA MEMBERS CAUGHT IN WEST BANK

Palestinian Al-Qaeda Terrorists Caught in West Bank - Amos Harel (Ha'aretz)
Nablus residents Azzam Abu Al-Ades and Bilal Hafanawi were charged on Tuesday in a Samaria military court with planning a terror attack and membership in al-Qaeda. Israeli intelligence figures said Palestinians from Nablus and Jenin had made contact with groups identified with Al-Qaida and received financial support from them. The two met with al-Qaeda operatives in Jordan and were planning an attack on the French Hill section of Jerusalem that was to involve a suicide bomber and a car bomb.

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Al-Ades and Hafanawi visited Jordan at least three times, together and separately, to meet their al-Qaeda handlers, named Abdullah and Abu Talha. Al-Ades made the first contact with Abdullah in May 2005 and the following month, during a visit to the Jordanian city of Irbid, Al-Ades introduced Hafanawi to Abdullah. Another member of the cell, Maher Samaro, was to get another 5,000 Jordanian dinars ($7,000) from a woman named "Naam" from the United Arab Emirates who was in contact with him by Internet, the indictment said.