So far, nobody mainstream is buying into the Israeli web site Debkafile's report that Ethiopian Airline crash off Beirut was an act of Al-Qaeda terror. Search "ethiopian airlines terrorism al qaeda" and you'll find no one but DebkaFile and mostly conservative bloggers who echo the story.
Debkafile cites "western security agencies in the middle east" as suspecting al Qaeda
"planners picked on the Ethiopian flight for more than one reason apart from the date: They had been tipped off that a group of French undercover agents, including Maria Sanchez Pietton, wife of the French ambassador to Beirut, and top Hizballah operatives, including secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, would be aboard.
Mme Pietton lost her life in the crash, while the Hizballah travelers were saved by switching to another flight at the last minute."
Explosive charges (if I may), but Debkafile can tend to the hysterical. Wikipedia quotes Yediot Achronot's investigative reporter Ronen Bergman writing that "the site relies on information from sources with an agenda, such as neo-conservative elements of the US Republican Party, "whose worldview is that the situation is bad and is only going to get worse," and that Israeli intelligence officials do not consider even 10 percent of the site's content to be reliable."
Photo from the Ethiopia Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
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