We Warned Them, They Warned Us
During the last 5 years, we warned our allies in the Middle East about several al-Qaeda plots of suicide attacks in Egypt, Israel and Turkey. “In October 1996, the intelligence community obtained information regarding an Iranian plot to hijack a Japanese plane over Israel and crash it into Tel Aviv,” says Eleanor Hill, of the U.S. Intelligence Committee. “An individual would board the plane in the Far East. During the flight he would commandeer the aircraft, order it to fly over Tel Aviv, and then crash the plane into the city.” These plots were either foiled, or the CIA later decided they were disinformation.
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