Hindawi affair
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| Date | 17 April 1986 |
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The Hindawi affair was a failed attempt to bomb El Al Flight 016 from London to Tel Aviv in April 1986 by Nezar Nawwaf al-Mansur al-Hindawi (born 1954), a Jordanian.
On the morning of 17 April 1986, at Heathrow Airport in London, Israeli security guards working for El Al airlines found 1.5kg (3.3lb) of Semtex explosive in the bag of Ann Marie Murphy, a five-month pregnant Irishwoman attempting to board a flight to Tel Aviv with 375 other passengers. In addition, a functioning calculator in the bag was found to be a timed triggering device. She claimed to be unaware of the contents, and that she had been given the bag by her fiancé, Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian. Murphy maintained that Hindawi had sent her on the flight for the purpose of meeting his parents before marriage.
A manhunt ensued, resulting in Hindawi's arrest the following day after he surrendered to police. On 25 October 1986, Hindawi was found guilty at the Old Bailey and was sentenced by Justice William Mars-Jones to 45 years' imprisonment, the longest criminal sentence in British history.
In January 2004 Nezar Hindawi appealed to be released on parole, but the Court of Appeal turned down his request in October 2004. Hindawi remains in Whitemoor high security prison.[1]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The plot to blow up El Al Flight 016 | Article | 6 April 2019 | Marianne Colloms Dick Weindling | Two weeks after Nezar Hindawi's trial, French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac was interviewed on tape by Arnaud de Borchgrave, the editor of the Washington Times. When he was asked about the attempt to blow up the El Al plane Chirac said he had been told by the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that they believe it had been set up by Mossad agents to destabilise Syria's Assad regime. |
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