UAE says Flydubai hijack suspect radicalised in Australia and targeted Tel Aviv airport
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UAE Attorney-General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi said Omani co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, 29, wounded the captain with an emergency crash axe on a Dubai–Tel Aviv Flydubai flight last week in a suicide attempt to crash into Tel Aviv’s airport before passengers overpowered him; another crew member landed in Saudi Arabia. Interrogations cited a drift toward extremism from 2017 while he studied at RMIT in Melbourne without finishing engineering, influenced by takfiri ideology and glorification of suicide attacks, and inspiration from al-Qaeda’s 11 September 2001 attacks, Wam reported Friday.
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