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Fighter Jets Scrambled To Passenger Plane
Sky News ^

Posted on 05/24/2013 6:22:37 AM PDT by UKrepublican

The airline has confirmed it is for security reasons. There are understood to be 297 passengers on board.

The plane was heading west towards Manchester when it was suddenly re-routed near York and headed back out to the North Sea, before travelling south to Stansted.

It is believed to have now landed at the airport.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alteredtitle; manchester; pakistan; pockeestahn; raf; stansted; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: seeker41
"Two trying to charge the cockpit per Fox."

This is not Terrorism! They were just practicing being the bulls for bull-fighting!

41 posted on 05/24/2013 9:21:29 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("The White House can't be trusted." - Ron Fournier, National Journal)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I hear you...nothing to see now here move along....

I think we can expect sustained attacks from here on out thats to zero redefining the war. Idiot!


42 posted on 05/24/2013 9:23:12 AM PDT by seeker41 (Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
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To: seeker41

that=thanks


43 posted on 05/24/2013 9:23:55 AM PDT by seeker41 (Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA remove zero)
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To: seeker41

Exactly. Declaring Al Qaeda defeated was the stupidest move possible. Now they have to prove him wrong. Watch out.


44 posted on 05/24/2013 9:28:49 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("The White House can't be trusted." - Ron Fournier, National Journal)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Anyone else thinking yesterday’s “speech” was a little ironic?

Why doesn’t Barry just say “we double dog dare ya?”


45 posted on 05/24/2013 9:30:52 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (G-d be with and keep safe the Benghazi Whistleblowers)
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To: seeker41

Middle aged men, say Sky News.


46 posted on 05/24/2013 9:38:34 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: stuartcr
I remember some of the details of the Sirhan Sirhan case, being a teenager when he killed RFK.

He was born and raised in a Palstinain home whose parents professed Christianity, but people familiar with them at the time indicated that their family life was more akin to a muslim home. In addition he was schooled, and radicalized through Jordanian textbooks that demonized Jews as "animals," and called to "liberate" the Muslim holy places and Muslim lands. He said himself that he was inspired by a teacher who taught him about the Arab warrior Saladin.

So he may have been born into a Christian home...one that apparently operated very similarly to a Muslim home at the time...but he IMHO he was radicalized by Islamics teachings and ended up acting out those teachings just like an Islamic terrorist.

As to the Pan Am flight, there just isn't much information on it, except the historical note written by the wife of the captain who said the hijacker was a North Vietnamese sympathiser...which I do not doubt, but we know nothing else about him. I am going to remove that one from the list on my page, put a note in there about Sirhan Sirhan, and change the date of the Cairo one.

Thanks for the input!

47 posted on 05/24/2013 10:31:40 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head

No problem. I think a lot of what happened in the late ‘60s/early 70’s, was more politically driven than religious, like Black September. It seems to have taken a more religious turn, when the leadership started changing and realized they could get more support using religion than politics.


48 posted on 05/24/2013 11:18:21 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: UKrepublican

They were Pakistanis checking the defenses. A staged altercation to guage reaction..


49 posted on 05/24/2013 12:25:20 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Throw them into the plane’s engine.

Waste of money. Turbine blades are expensive - one is worth more than the lives of all scuzzlims combined. Tie their hands and throw them into a pig trough. They eat the bones and all.

50 posted on 05/24/2013 2:11:13 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee

We are hardly hearing anything about this. Even on FR.


51 posted on 05/24/2013 2:22:03 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Pakistani version of ‘Red Rover’?


52 posted on 05/24/2013 3:02:30 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: Jeff Head

Don’t forget about the BLACKWATER Bridge incident.... or Nick Berg, who had the misfortune of starring in a video being decapitated.........both caused by - muslim males.


53 posted on 05/24/2013 3:11:44 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Biggirl

For high-information voters, there are NO nights or weekends;)


54 posted on 05/24/2013 4:35:59 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks UKrepublican.


55 posted on 05/24/2013 5:18:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It was on tv at 1800


56 posted on 05/24/2013 5:20:27 PM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: UKrepublican

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330327/Two-men-tried-cockpit-flight-Pakistan-Britain-pictured.html


57 posted on 05/24/2013 7:04:56 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000

I knew the usage of words “British” for the lowlifes was a diversion from their true nature.

Thanks for the update.


58 posted on 05/24/2013 7:38:02 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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