Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin accused Syria Sunday of complicity in the bomb attack on the El Al check-in counter at Madrid’s Barajas International Airport where eight people were injured last Friday. The bomb, concealed in luggage, exploded before it was loaded aboard an El Al flight to Tel Aviv.
Rabin said the man who brought the explosiveladen suitcase to Spain and handed it over to an accomplice at the airport, travelled to Spain on a Syrian passport. ” I presume the Syrians knew to whom they were issuing the passport, “Rabin said.
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Avraham Ben-Shushan, commander of the Israel Navy, warned at a press conference Sunday that Syria and other Arab states have increased their military arsenals and threaten Israel on the sea as well as on land.
Ben Shushan, speaking on the eve of Navy Day which will be celebrated Monday, said the Arab states are equipping their navies with a wide range of attack weapons acquired from both the Eastern and Western power blocs. Israel finds itself in danger of attack by sea, he added.
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