The hijacking Wednesday of a Jordanian airliner with 21 people aboard brought a high alert at Ben Gurion International Airport for about an hour in the morning. A watch was kept on the airliner’s movements until Israel Radio reported that the airliner landed at the Benghazi Airport in Libya two hours before noon. Local time.
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