What happened
An online newsletter linked to al-Qaeda appears to have praised the September 30 attempted attack on a Flydubai flight and called for Israeli and U.S. nationals traveling on planes to be targeted, the Express reports. The claims have not been independently verified.
Reuters reported that the UAE prosecutor general formally described the incident as an attempted terrorist attack. The copilot, Hamam al-Hammami, 29, allegedly attacked the captain with a cockpit crash axe and tried to take control of the aircraft, which had more than 170 people aboard, most of them Israeli nationals. He is under investigation in the UAE.
In this Newstro Breaking News report: what happened on the flight, what is known about the copilot, what Israeli investigators are examining, and what terrorism monitors say about Al-Bayan, the weekly pro-al-Qaeda publication where the material appeared. Newstro does not show or link to the publication.
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