BBC Conspiracy Theory on Entebbe Enrages Rescuers and Survivors

BBC Conspiracy Theory on Entebbe Enrages Rescuers and Survivors
June 07, 2007
Dan Baron
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

JERUSALEM

Israelis are outraged over a 30-year-old British conspiracy theory on the origins of the legendary Entebbe operation. Experts on the Entebbe rescue, including Benjamin Netanyahu, are weighing in to debunk the theory.

A BBC report published June 1 quoted a recently declassified British government memorandum as suggesting that Jerusalem secretly collaborated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists who hijacked an Air France airliner full of Israeli passengers on June 27, 1976.

The plane was redirected to the Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where the hijackers demanded that Israel release Palestinian prisoners en masse.

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