According to reports from Brussels regarding the suicide bombing attack there last month, the terrorists originally planned to target the El Al check-in line at the local airport.
According to information being released, a terrorist told authorities during interrogation that they had planned to target the check-in line to a flight departing for Tel Aviv, French TV reports.
Military correspondent Kobi Finkler told Kol Chai Radio on Thursday morning 6 Nissan that often El Al will change a gate, check-in location or flight departure time without explaining why. In this case, the intelligence community B”H received information of “something suspicious” that prompted such a change. Rarely are we to understand why these annoying changes occur but in this case we are told the decision was security related.
As a result, the terrorist blew themselves up elsewhere, still with devastating results as over 25 people were killed. In his report Finkler added at present it remains uncertain if the intelligence data was gathered by Israel and passed to relevant officials in Brussels or if they became alerted based on local information.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Maybe that explains why flight arrival information for two El Al flights in to Tel Aviv has been way off in the past couple of months. Once a New York flight showed up as being two hours late but arrived on time and the second time a London flight showed as being on time but came in 35 minutes early.
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