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Related: About this forumSudanese citizen tried to kill Israeli on int'l flight
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Arik, 54, works in an Israeli communications company that operates in Africa. He had intended to travel on to Israel after landing in Addis Ababa.
"About 20 minutes before the plane started its descent the passenger sitting behind me identified me as Israeli and Jewish," Arik told Ynet.
"He came up behind my seat and started to choke me with a lot of force," he continued, "and at first I couldn't get my voice out and call for help.
"He hit me over the head with a metal tray and shouted 'Allah akbar' and 'I will slaughter the Jew.' Only after a few seconds, just before I was about to lose consciousness, did I manage to call out and a flight attendant who saw what was happening summoned her colleagues," Arik added.
According to Arik, most of the passengers on the half-empty flight refrained from getting involved. "After they pulled him off me he hit me and shouted in Arabic. Some of the flight staff took me to the rear section of the plane and two guarded the attacked during the last part of the flight."
A Lebanese passenger was one of the few who came to Arik's rescue. Arik says that after they had already overpowered his attacker, the Sudanese citizen tried to convince the other passengers to lynch him.
"After we landed the Lebanese guy told me that I'd been saved twice, because after they'd overpowered my attacker he said to everyone: 'Let's finish him off.'
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COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)and never considered anything else. Their lounge at Ben Gurion was wonderful.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Very telling.
shira
(30,109 posts)I don't know about you, but I certainly don't expect condemnation from folks who are more offended by the demolition of terrorist homes than actual terror attacks against Jews of all ages.
Talk about broken moral compasses.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Would never have happened.
King_David
(14,851 posts)6chars
(3,967 posts)Russian plane crashes in Sudan
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/11/04/plane-crash-south-sudan/75141908/
Any jihad action there or just bad luck? (just mention because the last Russian plane to crash this week has been claimed as a potential ISIS act).