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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: March 15, 2007 |
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The man assumed to be behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States revealed that Al-Qaida had planned a similar fate for Eilat: to crash planes departing from Saudi Arabia into Israel's southern tourist city, reported Haaretz.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is currently being held at the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, recently confessed during a military hearing to planning more than 30 other Al-Qaida terrorist attacks, on top of claiming to have masterminded the September 11 terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 people.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," said Mohammed in a statement read during the hearing last Saturday.
The hearing also mentioned many other targets which "include many Israeli interests throughout the world, and included the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya that killed 18 as well as the near-simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Arkia charger flight," reported Haaretz.
Read more on Haaretz. |
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