Saudi Arabia denied Israeli charges that Al-Qaida tried to recruit a Saudi pilot to attack the Jewish state in a Sept.11-type attack. According to the Jerusalem Post, the comments by the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya’alon, are “incorrect, baseless and nothing could be farther from the truth,” an unidentified senior Saudi official said Wednesday, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.
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