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MAURITANIAN PASSENGER PLANE HIJACKED TO WESTERN SAHARA - MAURITANIAN POLICE
Reuters ^
| February 15, 2007
Posted on 02/15/2007 11:05:28 AM PST by HAL9000
MAURITANIAN PASSENGER PLANE HIJACKED TO WESTERN SAHARA - MAURITANIAN POLICE
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 737; africa; airmauritania; airpiracy; aviation; canaries; canaryislands; france; gando; hijacking; laspalmas; mauritania; morocco; mr465; nouadhibou; nouakchott; paris; sahara; spain; westernsahara
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:05:29 AM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Those crazy Christians again?
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:06:44 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:06:55 AM PST
by
LikeLight
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To: HAL9000
Oh that Religion of Peace makes friends everywhere. (sarc)
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:08:42 AM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: HAL9000
Some time ago an Ethiopian 767 was hijacked and was forced to ditch in the ocean because it ran out of fuel.We'll have to see if it's those nasty African Anglicans (the "homophobic" ones) who are responsible.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:13:07 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: HAL9000
Shades of the PFLP in 1970
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:14:37 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Off with their heads, jump from the hook, you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise)
To: HAL9000
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said. "The plane was hijacked. Now it is at Dakhla (Western Sahara) to take on fuel," a police officer told Reuters.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:15:13 AM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:17:52 AM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: HAL9000
Thanks.
Initially I had the impression they were going to have it land IN the desert, not at an airport.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:18:52 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Off with their heads, jump from the hook, you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:18:59 AM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: HAL9000
I've never heard of Mauritania (I wint to publik skool). Learn something new every day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania
Hope this turns out alright - hope it's just some desperate person seeking amnesty or something and not out to harm people.
To: HAL9000
Fueled up, a 737 could certainly reach European cities from that spot (if someone wants to pull a 9/11). Air forces will, I'm sure, be on patrol to prevent that.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:25:44 AM PST
by
LikeLight
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To: California74
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:25:52 AM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: HAL9000
THE USE OF UPPER AND LOWER CASE LETTERING WILL LESSON THE CHANCE OF PEOPLE THINKING THIS WAS A WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY. PERHAPS EVEN KEEP FOLKS FROM JUMPING OUT WINDOWS, CLOSING THEIR CHECKING ACCOUNTS AND BLAMING BUSH FOR WHATEVER IS GOING ON!
...just a suggestion
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:26:00 AM PST
by
Fighting Irish
(My opinions have been forged by where I've walked - not by who I hear on the radio)
To: HAL9000
Hey HAL.. have another look at the Airport pic... notice that the two "Tarmac"'s are blacked out..Just a HMmmmm (Interesting)
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:27:37 AM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: HAL9000
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane on an internal flight from the capital Nouakchott to the northern port of Nouadhibou was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said. "The plane was hijacked. Now it is at Dakhla (Western Sahara) to take on fuel," a police officer at Nouakchott airport told Reuters by telephone.
The police officer did not say how many passengers were on board or how many hijackers were involved, but said they wanted the plane to travel to Paris.
The plane had been scheduled to fly on from Nouadhibou to the Spanish Canary Islands.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:27:44 AM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: California74
I never heard of it either.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:28:50 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
To: HAL9000
Paris?
Well, well, well.....
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:29:40 AM PST
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: HAL9000
Wonder if it has anything to do with those 11 terrorists arrested in France yesterday.
To: California74
I've never heard of Mauritania (I wint to publik skool). Learn something new every day!
Interestingly, Western Sahara was the last country that I hadn't heard of, not really any reason to know about it I guess.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:31:31 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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