Posted on 10/05/2004 6:37:20 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Israeli jet fighters have forced an incoming Lufthansa airliner to land in Cyprus after a bomb alert that German officials had not considered serious. "We wanted to fly to Tel Aviv but the Israeli authorities forced us to land in Larnaca," said a Lufthansa official.
The flight from Frankfurt landed safely and security staff are searching it.
Three passenger jets - two from Greece to New York and one British Airways flight from Berlin - have been diverted after bomb hoaxes in the last 10 days.
"We came to the conclusion with the German authorities that this alert was not serious," a spokeswoman told the AFP news agency.
The threat was transmitted by telephone call to the Lufthansa office in Frankfurt.
There were 331 passengers and 18 crew on board the Boeing 747-400 jet, the spokeswoman said.
Not only did they not send trops to Iraq, they, along with france, did everything they could to stop OUR troops from going. They can both sink into the hellhole of 3rd world muslim nations, joining the list of "must eradicate" terrorist sponsors.
Saying it (or believing it) doesn't make it true.
Foreign affairs do effect the United States.
I for one do not want the United Nations deciding what is best for the United States when it comes to "foreign affairs" of any type.
Excuse me sir, but I never mentioned Bush, Kerry, or the election. But I know someone who's monopolized the thread with those subjects.....
And another thing, I find it VERY arrogant for you to come on an AMERICAN conservative site and tell us what we should and shouldn't do and what we should and shouldn't discuss. The nerve.
You can wait? Ha! How big of you. Perhaps you can find a better German web site to visit until then.
“But the issue, gentlemen, the issue is communism, and the question is whether or not we will leave that country to the Communists or whether or not we will try to give it hope to be a free people.
But the point is they are not a free people now under us. They are not a free people, and we cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now....” John Kerry, Winter soldier hearings APRIL 22, 1971
Do you really believe that this is a man that is concerned about Germany? Had John Kerry had his way there would still be a wall in Berlin.
I think that Germany should be very concerned over who the leader of the free world is.
Yea, imagine if an individual, say from Israel, came to the forum to express an opinion.
Sheesh, get a grip.
What is interesting to me is that some of the countries on that list are doing something about terrorism, there are two countries (FRANCE AND GERMANY) who are trying to run interference for the terrorists.
Well for goodness sake, support us then.
We is willing to support you supporting us.
But if you support Kerry, you support our enemies.
Agreed.
You might enjoy this: Why People Are Irrational about Politics
They sure were rude to me as an American, but if I spoke Russian they were civil. I do admit, Lufthansa is a class airline.
This is a good read. Thank you for posting this link!!
Well, what are we talking about? Are we talking about behaving as you please worldwide or are we talking about a veto about the national security of the US? If we were talking about the first, you could indeed leave NATO, the UN, the OSCE, because talking would make no sense anymore. If we were talking about the latter, your given example of Kosovo is not fitting, because the situation in Serbia never posed a threat to the alliance. I agree with you that some nations in the alliance have consistently undermined the efforts in the war and cooperated with the enemy. Though, it was not a veto.
Let´s say Kerry will be elected, and your European partners continue to cooperate with America - is that supporting the enemy? Do you want us to boycott America once Kerry is sworn in? Certainly not. We both live in democratic societies, and I currently have a leader whom I despise. But he´s still my Chancellor, and in case of war he´d be my CIC, no matter what comes. I don´t have to pay respect to the person, but to the office he holds.
It started with message #2 or 3, OldFriend mentioned Sen. Kerry and his "kitchen cabinet". Bringing the campaign into this thread was too much for me. But unrelated to the actual topic of this thread, an interesting discussion has evolved.
You said that Germany took profit from oil smuggling and armament sales to Iraq. Any evidence for this claim?
Sure, Germany is not engaged in the war on terrorism, and all the soldiers outta my country are just pretending to be Germans... Ma´am, please do a little research on the sites of the DoD to check who is supporting you and who´s not. You will find out that Iraq is not all.
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