NEW '9/11' FOILED (Saudi AF Pilot Arrested)

New York Post ^ | Feb. 10, 2004 | Andy Soltis

[Alouette]

February 10, 2004 -- Saudi authorities have arrested a fighter pilot under suspicion of planning to crash a jet in Israel in a Sept. 11-style terror attack, it was reported yesterday.

The pilot had allegedly been recruited by al Qaeda to carry out the homicide mission against an undisclosed target, Israeli TV reported. Saudi investigators are rounding up other people who may have been involved in the plot, and the investigation is continuing, the report said.

[thoughtomator]

We need to take the audio of that quote and run it under the video of the 2nd plane hitting the WTC. Or maybe put the audio on a loop and let it play continuously, while people watch the WTC being destroyed and human beings leap a thousand feet to their deaths.

[swarthyguy]

Maybe filming the farewell video in front of the plane was a mistake?

[jerseygirl]

Someone needs to send him multiple copies of the Freeper terror thread...the latest suggestion was that there are some 30 WMD devices deployed in US cities.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

For what it's worth, the Saudis deny the story. Of course this is why Israel wanted the US to enforce their agreement with Saudi Arabia and not base aircraft near the border.

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Official Source Denies Saudi Arabia Foiled an Air Suicide Attempt Against Israeli Target

www.spa.gov.sa/html/archive_e.asp?srcfile=614654&NDay=10/02/2004&wcatg=0

Riyadh, Feb. 10, SPA (Saudi Press Agency)-- An official source at the Ministry of Defense and Aviation has denied a report circulated by some media quarters while quoting the commander of the Israeli Air Force.

The report had claimed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had foiled an air suicide attempt planned to be carried out by a Saudi pilot against an Israeli target.

According to the report the pilot, who was planning to launch the suicide attack against Israel under directives of Al-Qaeda Organization, had been arrested.

'The report is entirely fabricated and false', the official source added.

--SPA 1048 Local Time 0748 GMT

[BOBTHENAILER]

Perfect post.

[RetiredArmy]

Nothing here. Move along. Ketchup Boy Kerry will tell you this is made up by Bush. Move along. Listen to liberal press give you the true facts. Nothing here.

[JETDRVR]

The Israelis would have shot his a$$ down before he punched the Jordanian FIR! Our country should take notes on proper airspace management...them boys got their stuff in one basket;-)

[SJackson]

Twenty years ago, all fighter pilots in Saudi Arabia were "extra princes", members of the Saudi royal family and the elites. I don't know if this is still the case or not. But if it is, for one of these privlidged people to go along with a suicide pact would be extraordinary.

The few Freepers (not me) who have served with them describe the Saudis as very competent, well equipped too.

[R. Scott]

[polemikos]

According to the report the pilot, who was planning to launch the suicide attack against Israel under directives of Al-Qaeda Organization, had been arrested.

'The report is entirely fabricated and false', the official source added.

According to the report the pilot pilot-instructor, who was planning who had completed plans to launch the suicide attack to launch a bombing run against Israel against the Kinneset under directives of Al-Qaeda Organization it's spelled al-Qa'ida, had been arrested had been released.

"See! I told you! The report is entirely fabricated and false"

[areafiftyone]

Glad they finally came out with the story. I heard this on Fox and Friends this morning. Thanks for the post.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Who cares?

Was Bush AWOL?

[cake_crumb]

Hmmm...interesting. The lower half of the article, apparently unrelated to the title, makes it appear as though the Saudi pilot was going to attack becuase of the fence, not because of all the Irlamist rhetoric about how evil all the JOOOOOZ are.

Is the arrest real, a ploy by the Saudis to inferfere in the internal workings of a sovereign nation - which they don't generally recognize - or is the arrest and plot REAL, but the fence angle going to be spun into a Pali propaganda coup against Israel's right to protect itself?

They'll say it couldn't work because it can't protect against planes. I ALWAYS said it wouldn't work, but it's Israel's right to build it. It's the right to build it which is the distinction here.

[SJackson]

The Israelis would have shot his a$$ down before he punched the Jordanian FIR! Our country should take notes on proper airspace management...them boys got their stuff in one basket;-)

Maybe, though the IAF is concerned. They will be shooting them down in Saudi or Jordanian airspace, with little reaction time if launced from TABUK, none if they target Eilat. The world's (including the US) reaction will be considerable.

US Intelligence: Al Qaeda Planned Israel Attack With Hijacked Saudi F-15's, 9/11/03

[WARNING TO ISRAEL] U.S. REFUSES TO RESPOND TO SAUDI F-15s IN TABUK

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Beat me to it, darn you! LOL! :)

[cake_crumb]

The terror angle will be ignored in the media. The plot will be blamed on Israel's effort to build a security fence against homocide bombers.

[livius]

It was sort of a mystifying article. But I think the fence thing may have been reportorial spin.

The Saudis are/are not our friends. They're our friends when they think that AQ is targeting them, since AQ hates the Saudi ruling family, or at least parts of it, almost as much as they hate us and Israel. I suspect this was one of the moments when they found out that AQ was targeting them, so they were our friends at that particular moment.

[cake_crumb]

Hmmm, even more interesting. Of course, early denials of true events are frequent in the Saudi government, making all news coming from there HIGHLY confusing. Guess we'll wait a bit and see what the next Saudi official says.

[cake_crumb]

"But I think the fence thing may have been reportorial spin."

So do I and we'll know in a few days if THIS is the story that starts the latest anti-fence, propaganda blitz. Agreed, the Saudis are not our friends. What the royals do, they do for themselves. All alliances are extremely...shall we say fluid things in the Arab world. Still, diplomacy is a different animal than friendship and as long as we KNOW just how fluid Arab alliances are the safer we'll be. Unless we kill them all, we still have to deal with them.

[FormerACLUmember]

Twenty years ago, all fighter pilots in Saudi Arabia were "extra princes", members of the Saudi royal family and the elites. I don't know if this is still the case or not. But if it is, for one of these privlidged people to go along with a suicide pact would be extraordinary.

THERE ARE ALWAYS A FEW HOMICIDAL PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENICS AT THE SHALLOW END OF THE GENE POOL.