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Israel switches flight paths;
says jet interception legal
by Hugh Orgel
I EL AVIV (J I A) I he Trans
port Ministry’s Civil Aviation
Authority announced Sunday it
has established new flight paths tor
civilian aircraft arriving at and
departing from Israel. The mea
sure was taken in response to threats
by Libya, Syria and various terror
ist groups to retaliate for the inter
ception by the Israel Air Force last
week of a private Libyan plane
which Israel had reason to believe
was carrying top terrorist leaders.
Israel’s intelligence proved false
in this case and the plane, a Gulf-
stream Executive jet enroute from
Benghazi, Libya, to Damascus, was
released four-and-a-half hours after
it had been forced to land at an air
base in northern Israel.
The reprisal threats were not
specific but they are taken seriously
here and in other countries. Ter
rorist leader Abu Nidal. one of
those presumed to have been aboard
the intercepted plane, warned civ
ilians to stay off Israeli and Ameri-
can airliners. Libyan leader
Muammar Qaddafi charged that
the U.S. Sixth Fleet, operating
near Libyan waters, had pinpointed
the private plane for the Israel Air
force.
Greek civil aviation authorities
who operate air traffic controls in
the eastern Mediterranean jointly
with Cyprus, have also assigned
new' flight paths well away from
L ibyan air space, Maariv reported.
A spokesman for El Al, Israel's
national airline, said the Libyan
threats have had no adverse effects
on bookings.
Israeli officials, meanwhile,
sought to justify the interception as
having been within Israel's rights
under international law.
Israeli officials have pointed out
that the intercepted plane was not a
commercial airliner carrying pay
ing passengers on a regular route
but a private plane not subject to
ICAO regulations chartered to carry
home participants in a conference
in Tripoli, Libya, where terrorist
activities were discussed and prob
ably planned.
According to these officials, there
was sufficient intelligence informa
tion to indicate that prominent ter
rorist leaders were in the plane and
to justify the intercept order.
Some sources said that Nidal
and George Habash, leader of the
Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, may have actually
boarded the plane in Libya and
promptly left by another door to
mislead foreign agents who may
have been watching the aircraft.
Terrorist leaders have been known
in the past to switch planes at the
last minute.
AJF hails Shcharansky release
The following statement has been
issued by the Atlanta Jewish Feder
ation in conjunction with the release
of Anatoly Shcharansky by the
Soviet Union. In the community’s
program where organizations and
synagogues “adopted” a refusnik for
special communication, Shcharan
sky had been adopted by the
Federation.
Editor
It is with profound joy that we
greet the release of Anatoly Shchar
ansky from the Soviet Union. Lovers
of freedom throughout the world
can have nothing but the deepest
respect for Mr. Shcharansky whose
courage and heroism have given
strength and hope to the 2.5 million
Jews living in the Soviet Union and
to millions of other people who
struggle for the retention of their
human rights.
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The Atlanta Jewish Federation
and all other organizations in the
Jewish community, as well as many
non-Jewish organizations and reli
gious institutions, take inspiration
from the bravery of Mr. Shchar
ansky, and reaffirm their commit
ment to advocate on behalf of the
over 20 Jewish Prisoners of Con
science still languishing in Soviet
labor camps: on behalf of the 30,000
refusniks; indeed, on behalf of all
2.5 million Soviet Jews.
The Atlanta Jewish Federation
expresses its appreciation and grati
tude to President of the United
States Ronald Reagan, to Secretary
of State George Schultz and to all
American officials who have been
so instrumental in securing the
release of this brave man, thereby
allowing him to reunite with his
beloved Avital.
We hope and pray that the gates
of emigration will open soon and
that all Soviet Jews will be given the
opportunity to return to their home
land, Israel.
Gerald //. Cohen, President
Atlanta Jewish Federation
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of
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Wednesday evening,
February 19,1986
8:00 p.m.
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Sandy Springs
Admission is free and open to all
For more information call:
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