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The thwarted airplane hijacking last week could have been even more deadly than we realized if the Omani terrorist had been able to carry out his plan.

Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani who was a “free Palestine” activist, attended a UK university, drew inspiration from al-Qaeda, and was too radical even for Oman to allow him to fly, was the copilot who hacked up his pilot and tried to crash a FlyDubai flight this week. Fortunately, a group of Israelis and two off-duty pilots were able to eliminate the threat and land the plane. Al-Qaeda has since praised al-Hammami and called for more hijackings. And just as when Al-Qaeda performed the 9/11 attacks, al-Hammami was planning not only to kill about 180 people on the flight, mostly Israelis, but also to crash the plane into a building.

Apparently, the reason the terrorist committed his assault on the pilot so close to Israel was that he was aiming to hit Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli officials relayed this information to their press after interrogating the pilot.
JFEED reported October 4:

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The plan, investigators say, was to approach Ben Gurion as if for a normal landing, and then, at the last moment when interception would no longer be possible, to crash the plane into the terminal and cause mass casualties. The attack was foiled only because the wounded captain managed to open the cockpit door…

Israeli officials also noted that al-Hamami arrived at Ben Gurion in June as part of the flights he was operating. During that visit in June, he gathered intelligence to prepare and plan the terror attack he intended to carry out.
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Crew members reportedly told the Israelis who restrained al-Hammami to untie him. Suspicious, yes?
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Al-Hammami has been planning this attack for a long time and specifically studied which airline companies would best suit his genocidal antisemitic purpose. "I searched and checked which company flies to Tel Aviv, and that's why I chose Fly Dubai. I tried to get hired by all the companies. I planned the operation even before I was accepted by the company,” he reportedly told interrogators.

FlyDubai messed up really badly, because, as I mentioned above, Oman — which is often favorable toward the terrorist Iranian regime — found al-Hammami a too dangerously fundamentalist Muslim even for them and grounded him. FlyDubai hired him without consulting his former employer. Furthermore, pilots from countries that do not have diplomatic ties to Israel are not supposed to be flying to Israel, so that was another strike against an Omani.

Thinking is not one of their strong traits over there!

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