Israel secret services 'involved in 1976 Air France hijack' AFP June 1, 2007 LONDON -- Israel's secret service may have been involved in the hijack of an Air France plane in 1976 by pro-Palestinian hijackers, according to newly declassified British government documents released Friday. Some 98 people, mainly Israelis or Jews, were held by hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda during an eight-day crisis concluded when Israeli troops stormed the building where captives were detained. The hijackers, from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the German Baader-Meinhof gang, said they wanted the release from prison of Palestinian militants. But according to the new British information, Israel's secret service, the Shin Bet, and the PFLP are alleged to have joined forces in an "unholy alliance" in a bid to change foreign policy in the Middle East. The claim emerged in a document written by official DH Colvin at the British embassy in Paris, quoting a contact at the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association, as the crisis unfolded. "According to his information, the hijack was the work of the PFLP, with help from the Israeli Secret Service, the Shin Bet," he wrote. "The operation was designed to torpedo the PLO's [Palestine Liberation Organization] standing in France and to prevent what they see as a growing rapprochement between the PLO and the Americans. "Their nightmare is that ... one will witness the imposition in the Middle East of a Pax Americana, which will be [to] the advantage of the PLO [who will gain international respectability and, perhaps, the right to establish a state on evacuated territories] and to the disadvantage of the Refusal Front [who will be squeezed right out in any overall peace settlement and will lose their raison d'etre] and Israel who will be forced to evacuate occupied territory. "Hence the unholy alliance of the hijacking." The document also suggested that Ugandan president Idi Amin may have been collaborating with the hijackers. Troops flew some 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) from Israel to land at the airport and storm the building. Three hostages died in the subsequent shoot-out, while an Israeli officer commanding the raiders, 20 Ugandans, and the seven hijackers were also killed. The document was released by the National Archives in London. http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070601-052857-3171r
Posting stuff like this is going to get you labeled as an anti-Semite. I suggest you delete this as quickly as possible.
, yes i am expecting though i just posted the news. not a single word of my own comments. lets see the guys who are complaining on law of balphasy on the name of "freedom of speech" in another thread can digest this news posting without the allegation of "Anti- Semite"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527980537&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull It's always possible...
What a coincidence! I wonder what else (cough...boycott...cough) is taking place in the UK? Big Foot may have been involved in a kidnapping in California.
Complete nonsense, as Gtech said - Big Foot may have been involved. Those are false assumptions, either that or show me some facts.
Shrillary says:"Stop with all the ill-conceived lies and self-loathing...post actual facts please, like the fact I am for socialism."
It might in a very wierd way be true. If we knew all the strange things the secret services of our countries does we would have thought that the world has gone totally mad. The actions of the secret services around the world is 10 times more shocking than what you read about in fiction books. Because its happening in the real world.
No conspiracy, they are doing this in the best meaning. And a lot of the stuff they are doing are good for us. You are pretty naive if you think that the different nations secret service people are sitting and drinking coffee all day. I suggest that you start to read about the subject before you talk about it.
Soooo... the credibility of the 'story' is based on the word of a (then) junior diplomat, quoting an un-named person at the Arab-Europe Parliamentary (Appreciation) Society, an organisation that - certainly at the time - seems to have had a somewhat 'pro-Arab' bias. Strange that no whisper of such a conspiracy has emerged through any other channels. Lets play a game of 'make the headlines'... "The BBC today is in possession of documents claiming that all jews eat babies. The document was written by the deputy junior undersecratary to the Department of Fisheries, based on a conversation with an un-named member of HAMAS. The Department of Fisheries was unavailable for comment, so in order to get an impartial view of the authenticity of the claim, we spoke to senior representatives of HAMAS, the PLO, and Islamic Jihad, all of whom said that they had never seen the document either, but that it was probably true" I wonder how much these journalists are paid ? Meow Purr.