............9/11 IS A DAY I WILL REMEMBER FOREVER.......Kim.......
............9/11 IS A DAY I WILL REMEMBER FOREVER.......Kim.......
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine has claimed responsibility for the
attacks on the World Trade Center, according
to the BBC and Abu Dhabi television.
However, DFLP sources have denied any
involvement.
It is unclear who is responsible for today's
apparent terrorist attack on the World Trade
Center in New York, but it is unlikely that
Palestinian groups are involved, said an
expert on international terrorism.
"They have a lot to lose because America
would react very harshly against the
Palestinians, however it is not impossible that
a radical group was involved," said Eli
Carmon, of the Herzliya Interdisciplinary
Center's counter-terrorism department.
Two jets, one of them apparently an American
Airlines 767 hijacked from Boston, crashed
into the Twin Towers shortly before 9 am.
EST.
Carmon noted that the World Trade Center has
been targeted once before in 1993, when a
bombing killed six people and injured more
than 1,000. Carmon said that there have been
threats by unidentified Islamic groups to target
the World Trade Center again if Sheikh Omar
Abdul Rahman, the militant Egyptian cleric,
who is serving a life sentence in the US after
his conviction in a plot to bomb the United
Nations and New York landmarks, was not
released.
He added that it is possible that terrorist
mastermind Osama Bin-Laden is also
involved.
Carmon said that the alleged terrorist attack
amounts to a "declaration of war" on the US,
and that the US will have to "react in an
extremely harsh manner."
Israel, he noted, had already envisioned the
possibility of an air attack, and shot down a
small plane that took off from Lebanon in May
after it flew menacingly into Israeli airspace.