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Israeli Arab charged over Al-Qaida terror plot
By Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: al-Qaida, israeli arabs 

The Be'er Sheva District Court on Friday charged an Israeli Arab man with spying on Israel on behalf of the Al-Qaida terror organization.

A gag order lifted Friday revealed that Khaled Abu Rakak, a 24-year-old resident of Tel Sheva, was arrested in late July following a year-long Shin Bet investigation.

He is accused of trying to set up a cell which would carry out suicide bombings in Israel.
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Police said that Rakak was charged over alleged contact with Al-Qaida, as well as with the Islamic Jihad.

Rakak's arrest was the third time in a month that security services have arrested Israeli citizens for alleged links to Al-Qaida.

Israel security services revealed in early July that they had arrested two Israeli Bedouin from Rahat suspected of passing strategic information to Al-Qaida, a charge the men's relatives are denying.

Later in July, six Arabs - two of them Israeli citizens and the other four Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem - were arrested also with alleged links to Al-Qaida.

The suspects allegedly planned to attack U.S. President George W. Bush's helicopter during one of his recent visits to the region.

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