Update on Tehran plsne crash:
IRAN: PLANE CRASH IN TEHRAN KILLS ALL PASSENGERS
Tehran, 6 Dec. (AKI) - An Iranian military aircraft has crashed into a residential district in the south of the capital Tehran and according to the city's mayor, all 94 people on board the plane have been killed. Iranian state television said the plane was attempting an emergency landing shortly after it had taken off from the Mehrabad airport. The Hercules C-130 was carrying journalists, photographers and cameramen who had been covering military manoeuvres at Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf.
Iranian media reports say the aircraft ploughed into a ten-storey building in a neighbourhood close to the airport, causing an explosion and setting the building on fire. Some 25 people inside the building are reported to have died. All of the capital's hospitals were immediately put on alert to receive casualties from the disaster and it is feared the death toll will rise further.
The head of the rescue services in Tehran, Dr Panahi, was quoted by the Iranian ISNA news agency as saying that 132 people were injured.
The security forces have surrounded the crash scene, preventing any media access. There were reports that journalists and cameramen, including those working for Iranian state television, were beaten by security officials when they tried to approach the area where the plane crashed.
In a telephone interview with Adnkronos International (AKI), one resident in Shahram Towhid, the neighbourhood where the plane crashed, described a scene of "total chaos" and the "disorganisation of the rescue operations". The same source also confirmed that dozens of family members of the people on the C-130 flight have descended on the scene of the plane crash, but had not been allowed to get close to the site.
The last serious air accident in Iran was on 19 February 2003, when an Ilyushin-76 which was transporting troops, crashed in the southeast of the country, killing all 276 people on board, including Revolutionary Guards and members of the flight crew.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.236943000&par=0
Jonathan Pollard to Likud Members: Choose Feiglin
In a letter sent by Jonathan Pollard to the 130,000 members of the Likud Party, the jailed American Jew urged supporters of his freedom to vote for Moshe Feiglin to head the party.
"This is a critical moment in the history of the Jewish Nation. We are bereft of leaders that understand that true Jewish leadership must be subserviant to the will of the Almighty. It is only by G-d's grace that we live in The Land. Until we have leaders who recognize this simple fact and act accordingly, we as a Nation will continue to be at the mercy of both our friends and our foes.
"We believe that Moshe Feiglin may be the only leader in Israel today who understands that power is a test, not a gift, and that it must be wielded judiciously. We believe that because of his faith in the G-d of Israel, Moshe is the only leader in the Likud today capable of withstanding the wiles of our enemies and the pressures from our friends to act contrary to our own national interests.
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http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=94295
In my opinion, Pollard's conviction and sentence was just and he should remain jailed.
I have already posted that I thought it might have been a way to take care of reporters, who had seen something, they didn't want out.
I see nothing in your report to change my mind.
Your report fits, what I expected.
Can't tell you why i feel that way, not thick enough
tinfoil, I guess.
I grieve for all the good Iranians that are trapped in Iran.
I think that I remember the prior crash, you may find that it was also a 'caused crash', I am thinking, that they needed to change some of the military to more evil leaders, as they have been doing lately.