Violence in the Skies - A History of Aircraft Hijacking and Bombing by Philip Baum

Author:Philip Baum
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2016-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

American missile attacks on Tripoli and Benghazi resulted in the deaths of 37 people, including Gaddafi's adopted daughter. The American jets were granted permission by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to use British soil as a point of departure on their destructive mission. The United Kingdom's European partners disapproved.

The selection of an El Al flight, operating from London to Tel Aviv, as a target may also have been precipitated by the Israeli interception of an executive jet en route to Damascus from Tripoli on 4 February 1986. In the skies over the Mediterranean, the Israelis instructed the private aircraft to divert to Tel Aviv. Their rationale was intel that Dr George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was on board. They could not have been more mistaken. Having kept the aircraft on the ground for five hours, it was released with all its passengers. Unfortunately for the Israelis, the passenger list included Abdullah Ahmar, Assistant Secretary-General of the Syrian Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party, and President Assad's number two! Syria, not surprisingly, was furious.

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