A greater disaster Catastrophe was averted Preventing_or_letting when Mordechai Rahamim , an undercover Israeli security agent stationed Placing on the plane , opened Openness fire at the attackers Attack and killed Killing the terrorist Terrorism leader .

The FBI had been monitoring Scrutiny the two attackers for years and an undercover agent was right behind them when the first shots were fired Attack .

The day began Process_start with an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) operation , organised Arranging by Michael Collins , to assassinate Attack the 'Cairo Gang ' – a team of undercover British intelligence agents working Employment and living Placing in Dublin .

operation flavius was a military operation Military_operation in which three members of a provisional irish republican army ( ira ) cell were shot Use_firearm dead by undercover members of the british special air service Supply ( sas ) in gibraltar on 6 march 1988 .

Then , at the funeral of one of the mourners , the IRA shot Use_firearm two undercover British soldiers who had driven Self_motion into the procession .