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France Plays Down Claim Attack Caused Plane Crash
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| 1/5/04
| Opheera McDoom
Posted on 01/05/2004 12:39:33 PM PST by TexKat
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To: uncbob
>I would think they would have timed the crash for someplece besides the RED SEA for maximun damage
Britain's Tony Blair
and his family were there,
on a holiday,
in Egypt. I bet
this plane took off, did something
seen as threatening,
and was shot right down.
Rather than spark French/British
tensions in public,
this is being played
as a technical glitch, not
an "intervention."
To: Palladin
«J'ai perdu ma mère il y a un mois, aujourd'hui ma tante. La série noire continue. Elle m'a laissé des messages sur mon portable me demandant de venir la chercher à l'arrivée. Elle entendait quelque chose de bizarre juste avant le décollage. Il y a eu du bruit, des cris d'enfants puis une coupure», a indiqué son neveu. I will translate this above part:
"I lost my mother a month ago, and now today my aunt. The "black series" [bad luck] continues. She left me some messages on my mobile asking me to come pick her up upon arrival. She heard something strange just before the crash. There was some noise, cries of children, and then she was cut off [the phone line]," said her nephew.
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:15:52 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: theFIRMbss
So why no eyewitnesses claiming they saw a missile heading towards the plane?
Look, anytime something bad happens these days, there is going to be some Islamic "group" (I put "group" in quotes because 9 times out of 10 these new groups are probably nothing more than some guy sitting in his mom's basement) to claim credit for it. Lest we forget, Al Qaeda took credit for the power blackout on the east coast last year.
To: uncbob
It is possible that the passengers fought to stop the plane from being taken over and it was crashed, ala United 93. All French are not cowards. The cockpit voice recorder is going to be key here.
To: theFIRMbss
who shot it down? the egyptian air force?
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To: Yaelle
Thanks for translating, Yaelle. This jibes with what another phone call recipient said...the person talking to him from the plane said "There is something wrong with the flight". Not-"something wrong with the plane". Did she observe a cabin takeover, rather than a mechanical failure?
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:23:34 PM PST
by
Palladin
(Proud to be a FReeper!)
To: truth_seeker
Who to believe? </>French? Muslims?
LOL not much of a choice here truth_seeker.
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:33:03 PM PST
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: oceanview; diamondjoe
>So why no
eyewitnesses claiming they saw a missile heading towards the plane?
>who shot it down? the egyptian air force?
We're talking about
Egypt, remember? Our press
gives almost no time
to Flight 800
witnesses. And I would guess
no one in Egypt
either will admit
they let foreign fighters fly,
or that they did it
themselves. Like our own
Flight 800, I think here
we'll just never know...
To: Palladin
I know. There was another version of this aunt's message that seemed to say that there was a female flight attendant standing next to the aunt at the time. How would anyone know that from a recorded message?? I am sure the experts are poring over this recording now, listening for what that sound was that started this.
What sound would be heard in the event of a mechanical failure? Would there be one loud sound that would scare everyone to death, as seems to have happened (the children crying, etc.)?
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:34:17 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: greenwolf
Let the slammic chicks wear just the headscarves to school...
NOBODY wants to see that.
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:39:20 PM PST
by
johnb838
(Understand the root causes of AMERICAN anger.)
To: diamondjoe
I just find it astonishing when they can rule out terrorism before they even get a boat on the scene. They won't have a black box for weeks. How the hell do they KNOW? Same with the one that crashed in Queens right after 9-11
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:41:58 PM PST
by
johnb838
(Understand the root causes of AMERICAN anger.)
To: theFIRMbss
Or how 'bout that one Egyptian pilot that crashed the airliner while screaming Allahu Akhbar a few years back. They never did admit he was the culprit.
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:43:23 PM PST
by
johnb838
(Understand the root causes of AMERICAN anger.)
To: Viking2002
Sorry, but , France did not wait, that US meet the horror of terrorism attacks, on September 11 2001, and did not wait the last plane's crash, to discover what terrorism is too. The list below gives terrorism attacks against France. Most of them have been made by Islamist groups, on France (Paris) and all over the world too, against France and others.
- 15 septembre 1974 : PARIS,FRANCE Drugstore Saint Germain (2 dead, 34 injured)
- 27 juin 1975 : PARIS,FRANCE rue Toullier (2 dead, 1 injured)
- 2 décembre 1978 : PARIS,FRANCE BHV (8 injured)
- 27 mars 1979 : PARIS,FRANCE rue de Médicis (33 injured)
- 18 juillet 1980 : PARIS,FRANCE tentative contre M. Bakhtiar (2 dead, 2 injured)
- 3 octobre 1980 : PARIS,FRANCE Synagogue de la rue Copernic (4 dead, 22 injured)
- 29 mars 1982 : PARIS,FRANCE Le Capitole (5 dead, 28 injured)
- 22 avril 1982 : PARIS,FRANCE rue Marbeuf (1 dead, 63 injured)
- 9 août 1982 : PARIS,FRANCE rue des Rosiers (6 dead, 22 injured)
- 11 août 1982 : PARIS,FRANCE rue de la Baume (1 blessé)
- 17 septembre 1982 : PARIS,FRANCE Lycée Carnot (33 injured)
- 15 juillet 1983 : PARIS,FRANCE Aéroport d'Orly (8 dead, 60 injured)
- 25 août 1983 : BERLIN GERMANY, Maison de France, Berlin (1 dead, 23 injured)
- 30 septembre 1983 : MARSEILLE, FRANCE Foire de Marseille (1 dead, 25 injured)
- 23 octobre 1983 : Beyrouth, le Drakkar (58 dead)
- 19 novembre 1983 : PARIS,FRANCE restaurant l'Orée du Bois (21 injured)
- 23 décembre 1983 : PARIS,FRANCE restaurant le Grand Véfour (10 injured)
- 31 décembre 1983 : MARSEILLE, FRANCE gare Saint-Charles, Marseille (5 dead, 50 injured)
- 5 janvier 1984 : FRANCE TGV (Very High Speed Train), Tain l'Hermitage (2 dead)
- 4 février 1984 : PARIS,FRANCE hôtel le Méridien (1 blessé)
- 2 avril 1984 : PARIS,FRANCE rue de la Tour d'Auvergne (1 blessé)
- 16 août 1984 : FRANCE Annecy (1 blessé)
- 25 janvier 1985 : PARIS,FRANCE(1 dead : Général Audran)
- 23 février 1985 : PARIS,FRANCE Marks and Spencer (1 dead, 14 injured)
- 29 mars 1985 : PARIS,FRANCE cinéma Rivoli-Beaubourg (18 injured)
- 30 avril 1985 : PARIS,FRANCE TRT (1 blessé)
- 5 septembre 1985 : PARIS,FRANCE ATIC (1 blessé)
- 7 décembre 1985 : PARIS,FRANCE Galeries Lafayette ; Printemps (51 injured)
- 3 février 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE Galerie du Claridge (7 injured)
- 4 février 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE librairie Gibert-Jeune (4 injured)
- 5 février 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE FNAC (15 injured)
- 3 mars 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE rue de Lancry (3 injured)
- 17 mars 1986 : FRANCE TGV (Very High Speed Train) (10 injured)
- 20 mars 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE Galerie Point-Show (2 dead, 21 injured)
- 3 mai 1986 : Colombo, Sri-Lanka (3 dead)
- 9 juillet 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE Brigade de Répression du Banditisme=Police (1 dead, 20 injured)
- 8 septembre 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE Hôtel de Ville de Paris=Town hall (1 dead, 16 injured)
- 12 septembre 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE Casino la Défense (43 injured)
- 14 septembre 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE Pub Renault (2 dead, 1 blessé)
- 15 septembre 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE Préfecture de Police de Paris (1 dead, 45 injured)
- 17 septembre 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE rue de Rennes (7 dead, 54 injured)
- 17 novembre 1986 : PARIS,FRANCE (1 dead : M. Besse=Chaiman of Renault's Car)
- 15 décembre 1986 : FRANCE Provins (1 dead)
- 18 mars 1987 : AFRICA Djibouti (13 dead, 60 injured)
- 24 juillet 1987 : AFRICA Air Afrique (1 dead, 1 blessé)
- 19 novembre 1987 : PARIS,FRANCE Paris 15e (3 injured)
- 11 juillet 1988 : GREECE City of Poros (9 dead, 80 injured)
- 22 octobre 1988 : PARIS,FRANCE cinéma Saint-Michel (13 injured)
- 19 décembre 1988 : PARIS,FRANCE foyer Sonacotra (1 dead, 10 injured)
- 19 septembre 1989 : AFRICA DC 10 d'UTA (170 dead)
- 27 septembre 1990 : AFRICA Djibouti (1 dead, 15 injured)
- 23 octobre 1990 : PARIS,FRANCE(1 dead : Dr Cyrus Elahi)
- 18 avril 1991 : PARIS,FRANCE (1 dead : M. Boroumand)
- 25 décembre 1994 : MARSEILLE, FRANCE détournement de l'Airbus d'Air France (3 passagers décédés et 236 otages)
- 11 juillet 1995 : PARIS,FRANCE Paris 18e (2 dead dont l'Imam Sahraoui)
- 25 juillet 1995 : PARIS,FRANCE SUBWAY Saint Michel (8 dead, 200 injured)
- 17 août 1995 : PARIS,FRANCE Place de l'Etoile (20 injured)
- 3 septembre 1995 : PARIS,FRANCE marché Richard Lenoir (4 injured)
- 7 septembre 1995 : FRANCE école de Villeurbanne (32 injured)
- 6 octobre 1995 : PARIS,FRANCE avenue d'Italie (16 injured)
- 17 octobre 1995 : PARIS,FRANCE SUBWAY Orsay (30 injured)
- 27 mai 1996 (1 dead : M. Mazlouman)
- 3 décembre 1996 : PARIS,FRANCE SUBWAY Port-Royal (4 dead - 170 injured)
- 1993 à 1996 : ALGERIA(43 French murdered)
- 6 février 1998 : FRANCE Corse (1 dead : M. Claude Erignac, Préfet)
- 19 avril 2000 : Quévert (1 dead, 6 injured)
- 11 septembre 2001 : New York-Washington (3028 dead, 5 french).
- 2001 à 2002 : Israël (113 dead, 12 French),
- 11 avril 2002 : Djerba, Tunisia (19 dead)
- 8 mai 2002 : Karachi, Pakistan (14 dead, 12 injured).
- 12 octobre 2002 : Bali (Indonésie) 4 french dead
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posted on
01/05/2004 1:59:08 PM PST
by
EvilGate
(Toutes les vérités ne sont pas bonnes à dire)
To: TexKat
bump
To: EvilGate
And they still plant their lips on whatever bomb-laden posterior is bowing towards Mecca. What cowardice and lack of national will.
To: Viking2002
If Paris went up in a mushroom cloud.....It would never get to that point -- the Frogs (or CESMs) would surrender long before it came to that.
BTW, the deficiencies seem to have been paperwork issues rather than mechanical issues.
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posted on
01/05/2004 2:15:35 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: TexKat
Although France says no conclusions can be made on why the plane crashed until all the facts are known, French Justice Minister Dominique Perben said: "On the basis of the information in my possession, (the claim) is not very credible." If no conclusions can be drawn until all the facts are known, how come they ruled out terrorism about five minutes after the plane went down?
We probably won't see proof that terrorism was responsible, but the way the French and Egyptians are responding there's no way that it can be ruled out. They have lost all credibility, much like the investigators of TWA 800.
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posted on
01/05/2004 2:19:57 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: johnb838
I just find it astonishing when they can rule out terrorism before they even get a boat on the sceneProbably wishful-thinking -- reminds me of the time Klinton said "We'll never know why Vince Foster died" the day after his death.
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posted on
01/05/2004 2:22:16 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: TexKat
I heard the plane exploded into thousands of pieces. This would automatically = some kind of explosive! Strange thing is that it happened shortly after take off. Within range for the person on the ground to use a remote control device to set it off! IMHO!
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