A Dutch teenager is under arrest on suspicion of planning to shoot down an El Al plane. Netherlands television reported last Friday that the 19-year-old son of Moroccan immigrants was among seven terrorist suspects arrested last month. According to the report, the suspect planned to shoot down an El Al passenger plane as it took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
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