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Iran’s terrifying new terror tactic may be turning airline pilots into 9/11-style attackers, former IDF colonel warns: ‘The new suicide bombers’
NY Post ^ | 10/03/26 | David Spector

Posted on 10/03/2026 5:16:31 PM PDT by Libloather

The hijacking of the Dubai airliner carrying Israeli passengers might be the beginning of a horrifying new terrorist tactic of recruiting and radicalizing real pilots to do 9/11-style attacks, a former IDF colonel and veteran intelligence officer warns.

“An individual doesn’t get the idea on his own to crash a plane full of people including himself. Somebody told him that if you do that you get your 72 virgins,” Miri Eisin, now an Israeli government spokesman, told The Post.

“If you think back to past plane hijackings, including 9/11, the hijacker was never the pilot of the plane. . . . This could be a new kind of suicide bomber,” she said.

Eisin, who served in the Israel Defense Forces as an intelligence officer for over 20 years, said she immediately suspected Iran’s hand in the near-tragic FlyDubai hijacking — though she was careful to stress she has no direct evidence and that the investigation is ongoing.

She said that the Omani pilot who stabbed his Indian co-pilot and attempted to crash the plane full of 174 passengers before he was overpowered by heroic Israeli passengers could have been radicalized by the Islamic Republic or its terrorist proxies.

President Trump has also suggested Iran might have been involved, but did not elaborate.

The pilot has been identified by The Wall Street Journal as an Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami. He had previously been banned from flying by Oman due to suspicions he had become radicalized, according to the publication.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: bombers; flydubai; iran; irgc; jihad; koranimals; mohammedans; pilots; terror

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To: A strike

Yeah, I’m not buying it.

It’s not like they have had 50031 deadly terrorist attacks since 911 or something. The Religion of Peace is...well...peaceful. The Amish could learn a lot from them.

https://www.cspii.org/trop


21 posted on 10/03/2026 6:21:08 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians )
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To: QBFimi

I read that the Jihadi used the standard hand axe located in the cockpit for emergency use..


22 posted on 10/03/2026 6:22:06 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Right. Just after 9/11 the news stories showed and discussed foreign born and often Arab state employees doing daily things at major airports such as loading carts and putting containers and boxes onto cargo holds under the passenger seating areas of airliners. With no xrays for boarding through gates because they are airline workers and not boarding.

After that, talk receded and we still have stories of unvetted terror supporting Gulf states employees.


23 posted on 10/03/2026 6:22:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Paladin2
I read that the Jihadi used the standard hand axe located in the cockpit for emergency use..

He was polite. Had learned from a black employee to first say: "Lemme axe you."

24 posted on 10/03/2026 6:23:54 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: doc maverick

>>I concur……..exactly like BHO.
De-Americanization and de-Christianization of the US by demoncrats all began with the Obamanation of Desolation…..Rev Wright, Farrakhan and other assorted demonic hell-affiliated scum.<<

These anti-white black radicals were unbelievably voted into power by white liberals who are traitors to their nation and their race. They must be disenfranchised if Trumps electoral reforms are to continue.


25 posted on 10/03/2026 6:27:23 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: frank ballenger

I remember that episode. Notice these law and order episodes imitate life. Like the law and order episode “Executioner” sounds similar to Christa Pike


26 posted on 10/03/2026 6:32:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

True. Show producer Dick Wolf should probably testify at a dozen trials a year. So many fit into later ones after his various series are on.

Remember that freak, the deluded E. Jean Carroll whose long delayed alleged return of a memory led to millions of dollars in a lawsuit against Donald Trump in an incident he denies?

https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/trump-lawyer-asks-e-jean-carroll-about-svu-episode-at-trial/


27 posted on 10/03/2026 6:39:07 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: rod5591

Problem is that they began the same tactics as Hamas.
They infiltrated the educational system and it had has gone rogue.
It’s been generating anti-American anti-Christian propaganda in students from the universities down to preschool since 2008.
Hamas tactics:
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16180853/Brave-Gazans-condemn-Palestinian-schools-teach-kill-Israelis.html


28 posted on 10/03/2026 7:00:18 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Libloather

not necessary.

All that was ever needed was the ability to buy a large plane.

You dont have to get hired by an airline. You simply buy a 727 or whatever and then fly it into whatever you wish. You dont even need a real license, flight simulator training will do.

There has never been anything anyone could do to stop what I just described.


29 posted on 10/03/2026 7:23:30 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Heck, you dont even need to pay for the plane, you could crash it before the first payment is even due.


30 posted on 10/03/2026 7:24:58 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: frank ballenger

Yep, she took her alleged “rape” from that episode..anyone with an IQ above AOC would have seen that if they were not partisan hacks


31 posted on 10/03/2026 7:35:13 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: BenLurkin
Muslims should be excluded from ANY position that has a security or strategic risk, including teaching, water treatment, electrical, military, and agriculture/foid distribution.

Two areas that might by OK are garbage dumps, and sewage treatment, reflect their worth to civilized society.

32 posted on 10/03/2026 8:31:44 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: doc maverick

No, it began long before obama, near US founding. Obama just sped up the process.


33 posted on 10/04/2026 3:20:49 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: Libloather

If you think there is a Moslem in the cockpit don’t get on the plane. It may cost you the price of your ticket but if you fly with him it may cost you our life. I have followed that rule for 25 years. I always get the cheapest flight I can find but Moslem country airlines often offer cheaper seats and I forego that risk.


34 posted on 10/04/2026 3:58:15 AM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: A strike

Why is it “bullSchiff”?

It’s merely reporting that some think it might be a tactic by Iran or other radicalized folks to cause more terror - they admit that there’s no direct evidence, but are investigating - which seems prudent considering the situation today.


35 posted on 10/04/2026 5:16:03 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; Libloather; frank ballenger
Sarah Barracuda: "Germanwings Flight 9525 Iran was NOT involved, crazy co pilot downed the plane..so this is rare but it does happen, its not a new terror tactic its been going on for a long time."

Here is a list of historical analogies.
One difference between those previous and Flydubai FZ1073 is that none of the previous were identified as terrorist attacks:

DateNationalityFlightOutcomeDescription
9 Feb 1982Japanese
(Captain)
JAL 350CrashedCaptain, reportedly suffering from severe mental illness, intentionally pushed the DC-8 into a descent during approach to Tokyo. Other crew members attempted recovery, but the aircraft crashed into Tokyo Bay.
19 Dec 1997Singaporean
(Captain)
SilkAir 185CrashedBoeing 737 entered a near-vertical dive into the Musi River in Indonesia. U.S. investigators concluded the captain most likely deliberately caused the crash, although no universally accepted finding emerged.
31 Oct 1999Egyptian
(Relief First Officer)
EgyptAir 990CrashedBoeing 767 entered a steep descent into the Atlantic Ocean after departing New York. U.S. investigators concluded the relief first officer intentionally caused the crash; Egyptian authorities disputed that conclusion.
29 Nov 2013Mozambican
(Captain)
LAM 470CrashedCaptain locked the copilot out of the cockpit and programmed a descent into terrain in Namibia. The official investigation concluded the crash was deliberate.
8 Mar 2014Malaysian
(Suspected)
MH370DisappearedAircraft deviated from its planned route and vanished over the Indian Ocean. Some theories involve deliberate cockpit action, but no official finding has established pilot responsibility.
24 Mar 2015German
(Copilot)
Germanwings 9525CrashedCopilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the Airbus A320 into the French Alps, killing all 150 people aboard.
30 Sep 2026Omani (Copilot)Flydubai FZ1073PreventedCopilot allegedly attacked the captain with a crash axe and attempted to seize control of the aircraft. The plane entered a steep dive, but other pilots, crew members, and passengers intervened, allowing a safe diversion and landing.

36 posted on 10/04/2026 5:17:04 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: Libloather

Gosh, it’s almost like Muslims are just dangerous people in general, like gangsters in a cartel.


37 posted on 10/04/2026 6:03:38 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; BenLurkin

It seems there may be religion that says:

1. Kill non-believers
2. Committing suicide to kiill non-believers is good.
3. Lying to further your religion is good.

If US “freedom of religion” says we must tolerate such a religion, don’t we now have enough evidence to ban commercial airlines as too dangerous for public use?

I would like to see such a ban proposed in Congress, simply to see the debate that would have to follow (or how much that should logically be debated would be suppressed.)


38 posted on 10/04/2026 7:33:38 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Libloather

It’s not new.
This has been going on since the ‘60s.
If the FBI was really doing their job, 911 would have never happened.


39 posted on 10/04/2026 7:52:04 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Libloather

Need to reinstall the old navigator seat for a 3rd person armed with a black jack and a knife and a stun gun.


40 posted on 10/04/2026 11:26:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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