The six hijackers used metal tubes from the crutches as weapons in the attempt to hijack the passenger plane. One of the terrorists, named Musah, said @1:25, they wanted to get the plane to another country to join the jihad.

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Iggy Lats also known as the "migratory Jihad," is a group of professional terrorists. The terrorists within the organization claimed to Allah and leave their homes and abandon all the property and migration together in one place for violent activity, "jihad". Members of the organization is essentially a collection of professional terrorists. Although it is not similar to the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement" with a complete and unified organization, but it naked to promote violence, and professional terrorists together. From existing material, after the organization in 2005 in Kashgar, Xinjiang terror time concern seems has developed into a major manufacturer of the current activities of terrorist violence in Xinjiang.