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From: dave@andromeda.UUCP (Dave Bloom)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish,net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism, etc. (Just a thought...)
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 13:57:08 EDT
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In article <446@mhuxm.UUCP>, abeles@mhuxm.UUCP writes:
> 4)  We Americans capture the perpetrators of the hijacking.  Questions:  Why
> was Egypt helping to return them to the PLO?

If Mubarek didn't make it seem like he was outraged at the US commandeering
of the Egyptian airliner, chances are he would have already gone the way of
Sadat and been assassinated. Radicals within Egypt are already staging violent
demonstrations... imagine if he would have co-operated with the Americans???

I personally think the commandeering of the Egyptian jet carrying the PLO
hijackers went too easy, too smooth. Maybe Egypt cooperated with the US,
giving them take-off and flight plan info, while at the same time agreeing to
denounce the whole affair to the press. That way they accomplish two things:
They retain their diplomatic ties with the US while saving face with the
Arab world. Pretty clean.

What do you think???

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