“Iranian asylum-seeker used stolen passport on Malaysia Airlines flight, police say”
Published March 11, 2014
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SNIPPET: “Police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said Tuesday that the man, whom the BBC identified as 19-year-old Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, was not believed to be a member of a terrorist group. Bakar says Mehrdad was believed to be planning to reach Frankfurt, Germany, and added that that the young man’s mother was waiting for him and had been in contact with the police. Bakar said she contacted Malaysian authorities to inform them of her concern when her son didn’t get in touch with her.
The second passenger using a stolen passport has not been identified.
However, late Monday, the BBC’s Persian service reported that both men who bought the stolen passports were Iranians who planned to use them to migrate to Europe. The report cited a friend of both men who hosted them at his home in Kuala Lumpur as they prepared to travel to Beijing, the final destination of the flight.”
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“Mystery fake-passport holders on flight MH370 were Iranian”
By Arron Merat
10:57PM GMT 10 Mar 2014
SNIPPET: “The two men travelling on stolen passports on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that mysteriously disappeared on Saturday have been identified as Iranian nationals.
A BBC Persian report quotes an Iranian friend of one of the men, who said he hosted the pair in Kuala Lumpur after they arrived from Tehran in the days preceding their flight to Beijing.
The friend, who knew one of the men from his school days in Iran, said the men had bought the fake passports because they wanted to migrate to Europe.”
SNIPPET: “One of the Iranian nationals’ intended final destination was Frankfurt, where his mother lives, while the other wanted to travel to Denmark.
The same source that spoke to BBC Persian also emailed CNN with a photograph of him posing with his two friends in the days before they embarked on their fateful trip.”
Note: Photos at the link below.
“Malaysia Airlines live: search chief says ‘there are some things I can’t tell you’
by Josie Ensor By Josie Ensor, and Malcolm Moore in Beijing
10:20AM GMT 11 Mar 2014
SNIPPET: “10.30 A military source has told Reuters news agency that it believes it tracked the missing plane of the radar to the Strait of Malacca. What this suggests is that the plane tried to turn back, which is why they have now widened their search
Members of a Chinese emergency response team prepare to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane
10.28 Ronald Noble, Interpol’s secretary general, is giving a press conference now. He says the two Iranians flew from Doha to Kuala Lumpar, where they were flying on to Beijing. They used Iranian passports to enter Malaysia on February 28, but used stolen passports to fly onwards.
He said the name of the second passenger on the stolen passport was Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza, 30, also Iranian.
Neither Iranian is on the Interpol database.
10.17 A picture of the two suspects who boarded the missing plane with stolen passports. They are wearing the same clothes, which suggests it was taken earlier in the day”