A Foreign Ministry spokesman denied a report Thursday that Israel had offered to help rescue the Cyprus airways hostages from the two Palestinian Killers of Yousef Sibai, editor-in-chief of the semi-official Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram. “A completely groundless story,” said the spokesman an hour after the report was carried over the Agence France Press wire.
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