A Belgian criminal court today sentenced the two Palestinian terrorists who tried to blow up an El Al plane at Brussels Airport last April to eight months imprisonment. The court found Husseini Rad Mahmoud and Khaled Dayekh Dokh guilty of attempted murders, using false documents, carrying concealed weapons and illegal entry into Belgium.
The two men wounded several Belgian passengers when they opened fire in the airport transit hall after being identified as terrorists by El Al security guards.
The Belgian prosecutor paid tribute to the El Al personnel and said they had used their weapons in an “obvious case of self-defense” and had also protected the passengers in the hall. The defendants’ counsel said after the trial he expected the two men to be expelled from Belgium in “the interest of all concerned parties.”
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