TOP STORIES April 30, 2009, 10:10 AM (GMT+02:00) Seven Israeli Arabs and two juveniles were arraigned at Haifa district court Thursday, April 30, on charges of plotting terrorist attacks and kidnapping Israeli soldiers during Israel's Gaza operation four months ago. Nine bombs ready for detonation were found in their homes and manuals on bomb-making and abduction techniques. The suspects had been practicing those tactics and were apprehended shortly before they went into action. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 1, 2009, 10:06 AM (GMT+02:00) Venezuelan, Palestinian foreign ministers in Caracas Authorative sources in the Venezuelan capital have toldDEBKAfile that Monday, April 27, Iran's foreign minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar and intelligence chiefs secretly got together with visiting Palestinian Authority officials, led by Palestinian foreign minister Riyadh al-Maliki. The matchmakers were Hugo Chavez and the Qatar ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa. If true, this would signal a drastic policy turnabout by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas away from Cairo and over to the radical Tehran and Damascus. April 29, 2009, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00) Four Lebanese generals suspected in Hariri murder DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that, by setting the key witnesses, four pro-Syrian Lebanese generals, free, the pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen Wednesday, April 29, effectively scrapped the international tribunal's mission to pursue the murderers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Their release "for lack of sufficient evidence" under strict security, as Fransen ruled, rewarded Assad for his extraordinary efforts to quash the international legal proceedings for fear of compromising his close circle. 
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