Netanyahu claims Omani flydubai pilot ‘underwent Islamist radical indoctrination’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts that the Omani first officer who stabbed the pilot on yesterday’s flydubai flight “underwent Islamist radical indoctrination,” in an interview with Fox and Friends.

Netanyahu:

We know that the attacker pilot underwent “Islamist radical indoctrination.”
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Netanyahu says that the copilot is being interrogated, adding that during the incident, “the attacker, he calls out to the aircrew, ‘Kill me, kill me,'” making it “clear he was suicidal.”

He also says that Saudi Arabia, currently holding the copilot, will, “I assume, very quickly” transfer him to Dubai for interrogation. “He’s an Omani national… We’ll join the interrogation and find out what happened there exactly.”

“I think it’s too early to say whether there was Iranian collusion,” he adds, but says he anticipates more definitive findings soon.

It is the second time that the prime minister has spoken to the conservative US Fox News outlet in the past 24 hours.

He says Israel will be able to conclusively say within the coming days whether the copilot had any links to Iran.