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| Israel has no link to Syrians murder: Hungary |
| 2010-03-20 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Two Israeli airforce planes that made a low-level pass over Budapest this week had nothing to do with the killing of a Syrian man in the Hungarian capital on the same day, Hungarian officials said on Friday. Denying speculation that the planes were part of an undercover mission, Hungarian government spokesman Domokos Szollar said the overflight was "routine" training that was cleared in advance with Hungary by the Israelis. Hungarian police said they saw no link between the planes and the shooting of the Syrian man, and their investigation of his murder was confined to Hungary. "The Israeli airforce conducted a training operation at Ferihegy airport the day before yesterday, but it was not spying or reconnaissance, merely a routine pilot maneuver, the so called touch-and-go," Szollar said. However, a breakdown in internal communications meant the Hungarian defense ministry was not informed, and when the planes were sighted and reported in a Hungarian daily, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai ordered an investigation. In the early morning of the day the planes flew over, Syrian-born Bassam Trache, 52, was shot dead in his car at traffic lights on the outskirts of Budapest, and a bag or briefcase was taken by the attacker, Hungarian police said. Budapest chief of criminal investigations Zsolt Bodnar, said speculation about a link was "in the realm of fiction." Hungarian authorities sent no request for information to Interpol about the case, said Richard Leyrer, Hungary's chief liaison with international police associations. "The only connection I have seen between the two cases is that they were in the news on the same day," he told reporters. In Damascus, Syrian officials had no comment. Nevertheless, Israeli and Arab media speculated that the fly-over was part of an assassination by Israeli agents. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Like the Dubai assassins, these Israelis then staged through Tehran for a debriefing... See a pattern there? |
| Posted by: Hotspur666 2010-03-20 21:39 |
| #1 Dubai police chief Ahi Khalfan Tamim demanded the DNA of the Mossad planes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-20 09:56 |