Swiss 'foiled hit on Israeli jet'

Good news. The Swiss are vigilant.
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Swiss 'foiled hit on Israeli jet'
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Swiss intelligence agents have foiled a plot to attack an Israeli El Al airliner, officials report.
The federal prosecutors' office said seven people of North African origin had been arrested.
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It said law enforcement agencies in other European countries, notably France and Spain, had played a part in the investigation.
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According to Israeli media, terrorists planned to use a rocket to bring down an El Al plane in Geneva last December.
The anti-terror operation was launched on 12 May in Zurich and Basel, the authorities said.
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Philippe Roy, spokesman for Geneva airport, told the French news agency AFP that El Al had halted flights to the city for a week last December, officially for "commercial or technical" reasons.
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The prosecutor's office said police had begun investigating the criminal cell in early 2005 in connection with a series of robberies. Some of the gang's booty was reportedly transferred to a terror group.
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The officials said one cell member had been in contact with Mohamed Achraf, a Moroccan extradited from Switzerland to Spain in April 2005 for allegedly plotting to blow up Spain's highest court.
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In November 2002 two shoulder-launched missiles narrowly missed an Israeli airliner carrying holidaymakers, which had just taken off from Mombasa, Kenya. The attack was claimed by the al-Qaeda network.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5060936.stm