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| Qaeda killers miss civil aircraft with SAMs... |
| 2002-11-28 |
| The pilot of an Israeli airliner targeted in a missile attack spotted smoke trails following the plane seconds after liftoff from Mombasa, Kenya. But Rafi Marek decided to continue to Tel Aviv, the scheduled destination, after checking that the aircraft was working properly. Holidaymakers among the 261 passengers and crew sat back in their seats unaware the plane had been fired on. They were only told after the Arkia Airlines Boeing 757 entered Israeli airspace. That made a hell of a lot more sense than heading back to Mombasa to give the bastards a second shot, didn't it? The attack coincided with a suicide bomb at the Israeli-owned Paradise hotel in Mombasa in which 11 people are reported to have died. The two together were supposed to be this month's spectacular atrocity. It looks like they're trying for one or two a month. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Just part of Ramadan celebrations. Nothing unusual there. |
| Posted by: marek 2002-11-28 14:07:41 |