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9/11 Report: Qaeda Planned Eilat Strike; Israeli Tackled Hijackers

(Ha'aretz) Nathan Guttman - According to the report by the September 11 commission, published Thursday, during the summer of 2001 Sheikh Mohammed proposed to Bin Laden that they try to recruit a Saudi air force pilot who would use a Saudi combat plane in an air attack on the southern resort city of Eilat. The report also elaborates on the story of the Israeli flying on American Airlines flight 11 who attempted to stop the hijackers from breaking into the cockpit before the plane plunged into the World Trade Center. Daniel Levin, 31, who had served in the IDF General Staff's elite reconnaissance unit, saw two of the hijackers getting up in order to enter the cockpit and take control of the plane. He tried to stop the two, but a third hijacker, sitting behind him, stabbed Levin. According to a telephone conversation from a stewardess aboard the plane, Levin was badly injured in the stabbing.
2004-07-23 00:00:00
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