Leila Khaled: Hijacker Page #2

"Oh no, you are not flight 840 anymore..."

Ladies and gentlemen,

your attention please...

This is your new captain speaking

Shadia Abu Ghazali...

The Che Guevara command unit of the

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

which has taken over command

of this TWA flight.

Then they flew over lsrael.

Fighter planes came up on

both sides of the plane...

And then they also talked to the ones

on the ground, saying:

"Well, we're here... ha ha...

like, what can you do about it?"

And now we are becoming a little insistent

that they tell us were they would

ultimately like to land.

Because in a not too far distant

future we were going to land

whether they wanted to or not,

because we would be running out of fuel.

So finally they said:

"Well, let's go to Damascus."

And ultimately we did.

We landed at the brand spanking new

piece of concrete at Damascus.

I remember at the very end

when we had landed, come to a halt

that she came over the

loudspeaker and said:

"Please get out,

there's a bomb on the plane."

Everyone was calm and

there was no problem.

The plane made a nice landing

and all the passengers got out.

There was an lsraeli assassin on board

who was responsible for the deaths of

many Arab women and children, and all

they wanted to do was to bring this

assassin to a friendly Arab city

and give him a fair trial.

That's all they wanted, really.

But the lsraeli assassin

wasn't on the plane.

At the last moment,

he decided not to take Flight 840.

The assassin was the lsraeli

ambassador to the United States

Yitzhak Rabin.

Leila and her companion

are detained by the Syrian police

but mostly for the

sake of appearances.

They are both released

after three weeks.

The hi-Jacking is still a success.

Leila and the Palestinians

are suddenly world famous.

Foreign newspapers start reporting

on the situation in the Middle-East.

Leila, however, has disappeared.

Nobody knows where she is.

Some say she is being protected

by her organization,

the PFLP, the Popular Front

for the Liberation of Palestine.

Another rumor says she has

visited a Lebanese plastic surgeon

to change her appearance.

- Hello, is this Leila Khaled?

- Yes.

Hello, my name is Lina Makboul

and I'm calling from Sweden.

Hello.

I have read about you and I would

like to make a film about you.

- A film?

Its early morning when

Leila Khaled and her companion

Patrick Arguello, board Flight 219

from Amsterdam to New York.

The PFLP has planned

a synchronized attack.

A number of planes will be

hi-jacked at the same time

and converge on

Dawson Field in Jordan.

Leila's mission is to hi-Jack

an lsraeli EL AL plane.

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