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Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has admitted to nearly blowing up a passenger jet over British airspace “sometime after” September 11 attacks on the US.
Blair admitted that he had more or less ordered the shooting down of a passenger plane when it failed to respond to air traffic control while flying over British airspace. He asserted that fighter jets had been ready to take off when the passenger jet “appeared to be deviating for the path it was in.”
Blair admitted that the new protocols that were developed after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center authorized him shot the passenger jet down.
"We were really not very far away from having to take a final decision as to whether to bring the plane down, because we had the provision to do that," admitted Blair in an interview with a state-run BBC presenter, Jon Sopel.
Blair said that the likelihood of blowing up the passenger plane was very high as he admitted, “It came quite close. It was a situation where I ended up talking directly to the officer who was in charge of the operation and trying to work out whether the plane in question was for some reason a mishap which obviously was the overwhelming likelihood, but what if it wasn´t?”
Blair described the fighter jets as “prepared en route to take off” and blow the passenger jet up when he realized that the plane was not a threat as it “had just lost touch with air traffic control.”
Interestingly, former British Premier called for prolonged battles in response to September 11 attacks as he described the incident which could have led to the killing of hundreds of innocent civilians who were on board of the passenger jet Blair intended to blow up.
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Last Updated: 12 September 2011
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