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Thai Jet Fighters Forced down the Plane Carrying N. Korean Arms [Breaking]
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 12/18/09 | Kwon Kyung-bok

Posted on 12/17/2009 7:17:49 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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Thai Jet Fighters Forced down the Plane Carrying N. Korean Arms

Kwon Kyung-bok

2009.12.18 04:19

A Russian daily reports.

The IL-76 freighter plane of Georgian registry which got caught while transporting N. Korean arms did not land on Thailand for refueling, but was forced down to land by Thai fighter planes after entering Thai airspace, according to Dec. 17 report by Russian daily Kommersant.

The paper reported that, as soon as the IL-76 plane which left Pyongyang entered Thai airspace, two Thai jet fighters intercepted the plane and order it to land on Don Muang Airport in Bangkok, tipped off by foreign intelligence.

This contradicts the earlier account by Thai government that the plane landed for refueling and checking tires(?.) It also suggest that the plane was physically blocked in Thai airspace before scheduled refueling stop at Sri Lanka, while carrying N. Korean weapons in violation of UN sanction. Until recently, N. Korea's arms exports have been mainly intercepted on high sea.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: intercept; nkorea; sanctions; smuggling; thailand
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I suspected as much.
1 posted on 12/17/2009 7:17:50 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 12/17/2009 7:18:35 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

mark/ ping updates, etc


3 posted on 12/17/2009 7:20:16 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; Cindy; AmericanInTokyo; All

WHOA this just broke I Think Chia Pet getting antsy here


4 posted on 12/17/2009 7:21:20 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: SevenofNine

BTTT


5 posted on 12/17/2009 7:22:34 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: SevenofNine

ya


6 posted on 12/17/2009 7:24:01 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Another one?

Someone is prepping for something big


7 posted on 12/17/2009 7:25:06 PM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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8 posted on 12/17/2009 7:25:15 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407767/posts


9 posted on 12/17/2009 7:26:27 PM PST by Cindy
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I'd land if this was in my rear view mirror too.


10 posted on 12/17/2009 7:27:25 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Didn’t Japan intercept a ship of Nork arms headed for Iran just yesterday?

I thought the Chia pet and company were saying they were close to some kind of mutual understanding with Obama after he wrote the Ronery one a love letter...

This is interesting. The American People must ask themselves how Obama can deal openly and honestly with the Nor-Coms when it’s obvious their covert activities speak otherwise?

Bush was right. “AXIS OF EVIL”


11 posted on 12/17/2009 7:27:57 PM PST by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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Thai Jet Fighters Forced down the Plane Carrying N. Korean Arms [Breaking]

Thai...

Arms...

Breaking...

Heads will roll. That shipment cost an arm and a leg.


12 posted on 12/17/2009 7:28:06 PM PST by Redcitizen (Zartan for President 2012)
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LOL! beat me to it.


13 posted on 12/17/2009 7:28:24 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: pnh102

That very 1970s special weapon effect yeah 30 years ago LOL!


14 posted on 12/17/2009 7:32:19 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The IL-76 freighter plane of Georgian registry

Is the Republic of Georgia involved in this in some way? Were these arms possibly going TO Georgia, since they can't count on Obama to help them against Putin? Or was this somebody else using Georgian registration?

I'm not a fan of North Korea. But I do side with Georgia against Putin's invasion of that country. And Russia appears to be involved in stopping the shipment.

In other words, what's going on here?

15 posted on 12/17/2009 7:33:01 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Wow...... this is the most important story of the week and it is being totally ignored here


16 posted on 12/17/2009 7:33:02 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: Cicero
Even New Zealand company is implicated. This is a operation by multinational smuggling network. I am not sure some are to be delivered to Georgia. The originally scheduled flight path by this plane strongly suggests that the intended customers are in Africa or Mid-East.
17 posted on 12/17/2009 7:39:48 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Obama will break US diplomatic relations with Thailand, and/or demand UN resolutions condemning its “air piracy”.

Iranian arms procurement agent sentenced to 60 months imprisonment
ICE.gov - News Release | December 14, 2009 | n/a
Posted on 12/17/2009 6:28:18 PM PST by Cindy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2410097/posts


18 posted on 12/17/2009 7:39:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A palm forget to be greased somewhere.


19 posted on 12/17/2009 7:40:01 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (I'd rather be an AGW denier than a dumbass watermelon)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Just for everyone’s FYI, a quick inventory of the Thai Airforce:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Thai_Air_Force#Aircraft_inventory

Not a whole lot of birds, but some of what they have is pretty good. Certainly enough to force an unarmed Il-76 down.


20 posted on 12/17/2009 7:40:39 PM PST by DemforBush (Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
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