Via Live-pr.com (Austria) -
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Police said an Egyptian hijacker who commandeered a Turkish passenger plane together with a Turkish citizen had received training at an al-Qaida camp and wanted to be flown to Iran and to join al-Qaida in Afghanistan, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported Monday.
The two men, wielding a fake bomb and claiming al-Qaida ties, hijacked the plane early Saturday after it took off from northern Cyprus, and held passengers and crew hostage for more than four hours before surrendering peacefully at the Turkish Mediterranean resort Antalya.Police said the 33-year-old Eyptian, Mommen Abdul Aziz Talikh, had also served time at the same prison in Saudi Arabia with a senior al-Qaida member, called Ahmad, who was sentenced to life in prison for helping to organize the Sept. 11 attacks, Anatolia said.
Police did not say at which al-Qaida camp or which country Talikh received training, the agency said. Police also did not say why Talikh was jailed in Saudi Arabia.
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