Posted on 06/10/2009 5:11:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on board the Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board, it has emerged.
French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 31.
Agents are now trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, and family connections.
There is a possibility that the name similarities are simply a "macabre coincidence," the source added, but the revelation is still being "taken very seriously."
A source working for the French security services told Paris weekly L’Express that the link was "highly significant."
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And another piece falls into place.
I believe I saw a report tht there were two from Morocco and one from Lebanon listed as passengers.
This could get really interesting...
How many more cars could they possibly burn in france?
I remembered reading this in a comment on FR about a day after it happened. The passenger names were released except for two who were listed as country of unknown origin.
Don’t get on a plane with Muzzies.
I’m always suspicious anytime authorities with the help of the media, are way to eager to place blame on a “mechanical malfunction”, in this case an air speed indicator, and in the case of flight 800 a fuel tank explosion caused by a electrical short. It may end up being a mechanical problem, but they should wait until all the available facts are gathered.
I don’t doubt it’s terrorism.
Could be either that something went wrong with the terrorists plans and they decided to bail early, or (what I’ve often thought) is that they are doing all these little terror acts that look like natural disasters to deflect attention from themselves and yet get good kill numbers, while they work on something else.
Or there’s the possibility that much of this stuff is terror related and we’re just being flat out lied to to avoid panic, or retaliation, or hurting certain industries, or demanding the border be closed, or any number of self-serving reasons by the government whose job it is to protect us and they aren’t.
Agree and well said.
Why would anyone rule ANYTHING out at this point?
Authorities do it because they're under pressure from higher-ups. Freepers do it because either, a) they like to show how not afraid of terrorism they are, or b) they're posting here with an agenda.
You should see some of the earlier threads on this. Anyone who didn't rule out terrorism was excoriated, ridiculed and oftentimes insulted by these people.
They won't be visiting this thread, I'm sure.
Someone should check to see if they have donated money to the Democrats.
Maybe some kind of device that jams the instruments, like a mini EMP.
Putting the links together finally.
Very interesting. And yeah, keeping a cool head in every direction is almost always the best SOP.
bttt
That’s going to disappoint people who wanted to blame AirBus.
From Sky News:
France has received numerous threats from Islamic terrorist groups in recent months, especially since French troops were sent to fight in Afghanistan.
Security chiefs have been particularly worried about airborne suicide attacks similar to the ones on the United States on September 11 2001.
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