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A film being shot at Malta airport
stanley cup about a plane hijacking was disrupted amid the real hijacking of a Libyan Airbus A320 on Friday. Maltese special forces soldiers approach a hijacked Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 on t
stanley cup he runway at Malta International Airport. Reuters Photo According to a BBC report the film crew was forced to stop the shooting of the movie as the hijacked Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane landed at Malta International Airport. Weve had five hijackings landing here and ironically today they were actually filming Entebbe on the airport grounds
stanley cup - and that had to be stopped, Magda Magri Naudi, the mayor of Lija told the BBC. The movie - Entebbe - is based on a hostage situation that occurred 40 years ago in Uganda. In 1976, an Air France aircraft carrying 250 passengers - many of who were Israeli - and 12 crew members was hijacked and flown to Ugandas Entebbe airport. The hijackers demanded that release of 54 militants held by Israel and four other countries and a $5m ransom. The Ugandan government supported the hijackers, and dictator Idi Amin personally welcomed them. In one of the most daring operations in its history, Israel secretly dispatched a unit of elite commandos - led by Yonatan Netanyahu, the brother of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - to rescue the hostages. They flew eight-and-a-half-hours over 4,000km, through hostile territory and beneath the scope of enemy radar, to mount a surprise raid. The Israeli forces freed 10 Cuwq We re not interested in staying in Afghanistan: Hillary Clinton
In a fresh ultimatum demanding release of four terrorists imprisoned in Mali by March 1, north African wing of the Al Qaeda has offered to free two of the six European hostages in exchange. HT Image The Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb AQIM has set new deadlines of February 20 and March 1 for France and Italy respectively offering to free their nationals it has been holding captive for more than two months to secure the release of its members from
jordan Mali jails, according to a statement posted on Saturday on SITE, extremists websites monitoring group. The statement came after Mali s President Amadou Toumani Toure said on Thursday that his government was working for peaceful solution of the crisis. Ruling out military operations, the President said efforts were on to secure the release o
stanley cup f all the hostages either by paying ransom or by freeing AQIM prisoners. 61-year-old Frechman Pierre Camatte was taken from his hotel in Menaka, around 1,500 km from Mali capital Barnako in November. The Italian Sergio Cicala, 65, and his wife Philomene Pawelgba Kabore were abducted Dec 18, while three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped on November 29. In an earlier ultimatum issued Jan 11, the terrorist group had threatened to kill the French hostage in case the Mali government fails to
stanley cup free its members within 20 days. The new statement, however, does not mention about the release of Cicala s wife and the Spanish volunteers- Albert Vilalta, 35, Alicia Gamez, 35, and Roque Pascual,
