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Age of Terror - Part Three

7 years before 9/11 there was a plan to explode a plane over the heart of Paris

Peter Taylor explores how in 1994 Holy War was about to spread across the globe. An Islamist extremist group called GIA hijacked an Air France plane, Flight 8969, in Algiers with a plan to use it as a weapon to destroy the heart of Paris. He speaks to some of the hostages and crew who were on the plane.

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成人快手 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project