http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-malaysian-airlines-fears-over-3247649
TITLE: “Did pilot hijack missing plane HIMSELF in anti-government protest? Fears over Captain Shah’s links to Malaysian opposition”
Excerpt:
Fears emerged tonight that the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet may have hijacked the plane himself as an anti-government protest.
Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a fervent supporter of his country’s opposition leader who was jailed for homosexuality - illegal in Malaysia - only hours before flight MH370 vanished with 239 passengers and crew on board, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
And in a new twist, it emerged that the pilot’s wife and three children moved out of the family’s home the day before the plane’s disappearance.
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I doubt it, so what is he going to do with the plane, bomb Malaysia for not liking homos?
I have all kinds of problems with this speculative yellow journalism. In particular their classifying “the country’s opposition leader” as a radical homosexual. He was possibly those things, tho the sex stuff might have been trumped up by political enemies. But wikipedia says, in a long l article:
“”During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis Anwar, as finance minister, supported the International Monetary Fund (IMF) plan for recovery. He also instituted an austerity package that cut government spending by 18%, cut ministerial salaries and deferred major projects. “Mega projects”, despite being a cornerstone of Mahathir’s development strategy, were greatly curtailed.
“Although many Malaysian companies faced bankruptcy, Anwar declared: “There is no question of any bailout. The banks will be allowed to protect themselves and the government will not interfere.” Anwar advocated a free-market approach to the crisis, including foreign investment and trade liberalization. Mahathir blamed currency speculators like George Soros and supported currency controls and tighter regulation of foreign investment.[7]
In 1998 Newsweek magazine named Anwar the “Asian of the Year”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim#Petition_against_Najib_Razak
After a long and distinguished career, he just doesn’t look like the kind of radical political operative that inspires murder and mayhem amongst his followers. He looks, in fact, like someone FReepers might vote for. No Bailouts was discussed here for a long time, And some of us were passionate about it.
Sooo, it occurs to me that Zaharie might be made to look like the culprit by inference in state controlled media because of his “politics,” but someone else hijacked the plane. Perhaps there was an al Qaeda pilot in first class, perhaps the copilot did it. Perhaps the Malaysians shot it down when it doubled back into their country and are trying to cover their tracks. I don’t know whether they are that corrupt, but I don’t trust anything they say.
And yes, Zaharie is not beyond suspicion. Maybe he did it. But I’m not ready to tar and feather him yet.