Anchorage Airport is one of the world’s top five air-cargo hubs. It ranks second in the nation for weight of landed cargo.
The spate of threats recalls successive waves of bomb threats made against JCCs and other Jewish institutions in 2017, many of which led to building evacuations.
Incident comes after dozens of others landed in southern Israel over the last week.
John William Kirby Kelley of Vienna was charged Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States
The restaurant in recent years has been the target of multiple incidents, including damage to the windows and the pelting of its façade with eggs.
Since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, when Hezbollah launched close to 4,000 rockets and wounded 1,400 civilians in 34 days.
The Jewish community is not safe from Reardon, District Court Judge Patricia Gaughan, said in her ruling Tuesday.
Cesar Sayoc could have been sentenced to life in prison on Monday, as requested by prosecutors, but U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said it was clear the bombs were designed to not detonate.
The bombing, which took place on July 31, 2002, was planned and perpetrated by members of an eastern Jerusalem Hamas cell during the Second Intifada.
A Ben-Gurion Airport security team was dispatched to the plane, which carried out an inspection of both the passengers and aircraft.
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