A Tangled Web

FAROUK THE TUNISIAN AND FLIGHT 587.



Following on from he horrors of 9/11, I'm sure many people were shocked when the news reached us that Flight 587 from JFK had crashedover Queen's only two months later on November 12th. It was an awful story and must have been so traumatic for those poor people in New York that were still in shock from seeing the Twin Towers downed. However, the cause of the crash has kind of faded into history...until now.



It seems that a captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago. Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with the source that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001. The source claimed Jdey had used his Canadian passport to board Flight 587 and "conducted a suicide mission" with a small bomb similar to the one used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, a "Top Secret" Canadian government report says.



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