Israeli security agents 'foil al-Qaida attack'
Israel’s internal security agency says it has foiled an al-Qaida plan to attack the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and hit other targets in the country.
Shin Bet said today it arrested three Palestinians it accuses of plotting to carry out bombings, shootings, kidnappings and other attacks.
It said the men, two from Jerusalem and one from the West Bank, were recruited by an operative based in the Gaza Strip who worked for al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Shin Bet alleges the Palestinians planned on attacking a Jerusalem conference centre with firearms and then to kill rescue workers with a lorry bomb.
It said al-Qaida also planned to send foreign militants to attack the US Embassy in Tel Aviv on the same day using explosives supplied by the Palestinians.
