Defense Minister Ezer Weizman has revealed that Palestinian terrorists are being trained as pilots in Libya for suicide missions in which they would crash explosive-laden planes in Israeli cities. Weizman’s statement was in response to a question by Housing Minister David Levy at last Sunday’s Cabinet meeting as to whether reports about this new type of terrorist acts were true.
Weizman confirmed the reports and added that “we are preparing ourselves against the possibility of such attacks.”Ahmed Jibril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a component of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was quoted by a Lebanese newspaper last week as saying that his men were training for suicide raids such as those undertaken by Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War 11 if Israel continued its ground and aerial attacks in south Lebanon.
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