To this day, I am convinced that that airline had a CARGO of corpses. We already know what small value the terrorists put on human lives. Why not herd a bunch of people onto a plane, gas them all, take off, and deliberately fly in a provocative manner directy at a U.S. warship?
Why would you even need to gas them? Just make sure nobody important is aboard, and the passengers would never suspect a thing. Only one pilot would have to know what the mission was, and everyone else aboard would be oblivious until it was too late. And how do we know they were trying to just be provocative? Could they have been trying to hit the warship in the same manner as the 9/11 hijackers?
Remember the Egyptian airliner with a bunch of Egyptian military personnel on board? One guy was allowed to pilot the aircraft, and the tapes reveal the voice of a man repeating "Allah akbar," over and over. That is the same thing the masked terrorists were saying as they beheaded Nick Berg. I think they concluded that the Egypt Air event was also not a terrorist act. Anyone know differently?
See #62. Had to be as you've indicated.