http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49380
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
"Palestinians charged with membership in al-Qaida
Indictment stokes fears jihad group infiltrated Israel, poised to attack"
Posted: March 21, 2006
2:45 p.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JERUSALEM – For the first time ever, two West Bank Palestinians today were charged with membership in al-Qaida, stoking fears here the global jihad group has infiltrated the Jewish state.
The indictment follows months of warnings by Israeli intelligence officials al-Qaida was able to make it to the area after Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last summer.
Two Palestinians from the West Bank town of Nablus were charged in a north Samaria military court with recruiting suicide bombers and seeking financing to carry out a large-scale al-Qaida attack inside Israel.
Azzam abu-al-Adas and Balal Hafnawi, both in their 20s, are accused of traveling to Jordan to meet an al-Qaida operative about their planned attack, which included the use of car bombs. They received funding from al-Qaida's Jordan branch, according to a court indictment, and were planning to recruit Palestinians in the West Bank to set up an al-Qaida cell in the territory."