Dutch authorities recently detained four Israeli passengers on a KLM plane arriving in Amsterdam from London on the suspicion they were involved in the July 26 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in London.
Only after they were questioned for three hours and then released was it revealed that three of the detainees were Israelis.
Police took the four into custody last week after a passenger on the plane told a stewardess that a woman on the flight looked like the composite picture of a Middle Eastern woman who was spotted near the Israeli Embassy in London shortly before the bomb went off.
The woman, it turned out, was a Sudanese national on her way to Khartoum. The men were Shimon Korek, the director of the Maccabee soccer team in Tel Aviv; Abraham Grant, the team’s coach; and an unnamed Israeli travel agent.
The three were on the way to watch the soccer team, which was in the Netherlands for summer training.
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