Irans terrifying new terror tactic may be turning airline pilots into 9/11-style attackers, former IDF colonel warns: The new suicide bombers

The hijacking of the Dubai airliner carrying Israeli passengers might be the beginning of a horrifying new terrorist tactic of recruiting and radicalizing real pilots to do 9/11-style attacks, a former IDF colonel and veteran intelligence officer warns.“An individual doesn’t get the idea on his own to crash a plane full of people including himself.Somebody told him that if you do that you get your 72 virgins,” Miri Eisin, now an Israeli government spokesman, told The Post.“If you think back to past plane hijackings, including 9/11, the hijacker was never the pilot of the plane.

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.This could be a new kind of suicide bomber,” she said.Eisin, who served in the Israel Defense Forces as an intelligence officer for over 20 years, said she immediately suspected Iran’s hand in the near-tragic FlyDubai hijacking — though she was careful to stress she has no direct evidence and that the investigation is ongoing.She said that the Omani pilot who stabbed his Indian co-pilot and attempted to crash the plane full of 174 passengers before he was overpowered by heroic Israeli passengers could have been radicalized by the Islamic Republic or its terrorist proxies.President Trump has also suggested Iran might have been involved, but did not elaborate.

The pilot has been identified by The Wall Street Journal as an Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami.He had previously been banned from flying by Oman due to suspicions he had become radicalized, according to the publication.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the attacker had been subject to “Islamic radicalization.”“This to me is very much something that could have come from Hezbollah or the IRGC Quds Force, this is the kind of things that they think of,” she said.Eisin said that Iran, if responsible for the attack, may be trying to unleash a new kind of suicide bomber by infiltrating airlines with radicalized pilots who could launch an attack at any time.Eisin said a pilot’s professional...