Israeli fighter jets almost got Tony Blair
Overdue.
Might have been an appropriate way to go
Two Israeli fighter aircraft threatened to shoot down a private jet transporting Tony Blair after coming under the misapprehension that the aircraft was staging a potential terrorist attack.
Blair…was en route to Israel from a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting at Sharm el Sheikh, in Egypt, on Wednesday morning when the warplanes were scrambled to intercept the jet.
It was only after the warplanes were positioned in attack mode that the aircraft’s crew made contact, informing air traffic control that Blair was on the flight.
New systems have apparently been set up in the past few months to identify suspicious aircraft and Israeli forces have been on heightened alert for threats after Hamas knocked down a wall on the Egyptian border five months ago.
Protecting walls from being breached is a perfectly good reason to threaten to shot down civilian aircraft - if you’re the Israeli government.
Posted: Fri - May 23, 2008 at 07:12 AM