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TIL Mossad agents kidnapped a Nigerian man in London in 1984, and tried to extradite him by drugging him, placing him in a crate, and shipping him abroad as diplomatic luggage. As they did not label the crates correctly, the crates could be and were searched, and the plan was foiled.

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