Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed intelligence provided by his country foiled a plot by the Islamic State group to bring down a passenger plane from Sydney
Last year Australia arrested two brothers — Khaled Khayat and Mahmoud Khayat — and charged them with plotting to bring down an Etihad Airways passenger jet destined to fly to Abu Dhabi from Sydney.
They were accused of trying to smuggle an improvised explosive device onto the July 15 service, but the attempt was aborted before they reached security.
The Israeli Prime Minister told an American Jewish conference in Jerusalem: “The Israeli intelligence services thwarted the downing of an Australian plane, an unimaginable slaughter,”.
“This would have caused a major disruption in global air transport and this is only one of dozens of terrorist attacks we have foiled around the world,” Netanyahu said, later referring to the failed plot as an IS attempt.
Read the article in The Daily Telegraph.