Posted on 07/05/2009 12:32:04 PM PDT by Libloather
Military ordered to turn back Zelaya's jet
By WILL WEISSERT and NESTOR IKEDA – 1 hour ago
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras' ousted President Manuel said he was getting on a flight home to reclaim his post on Sunday, accompanied by the U.N. General Assembly president and a group of journalists.
The interim government said it ordered the military to prevent the landing of Zelaya's plane. If turned away, it will likely land in El Salvador, where a separate flight was headed with Latin American leaders who support Zelaya's reinstatement.
Thousands of protesters were gathering in the capital of Honduras in anticipation of Zelaya's showdown against the interim government in power since the army ousted him.
Police helicopters hovered over the main Tegucigalpa airport, where soldiers outnumbered travelers and commercial flights were canceled. Access roads were cut off by police checkpoints, with soldiers standing guard alongside.
"The government of President (Roberto) Micheletti has order the armed forces and the police not to allow the entrance of any plane bringing the former leader," the foreign minister of the interim government, Enrique Ortez, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
In Washington, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says the safety of Zelaya's flight could not be guaranteed. Correa said he would fly with the presidents of Argentina and Paraguay and the secretary-general of the Organization of American States on Tango One, the Argentine presidential plane, to the Salvadoran capital.
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I disagree. “Cool” would be if they shot it down the second it entered Honduran airspace.
Protesters against the commie or for?
He simply should not be allowed to land. Why is Fox running some kind of entertainment special — I saw Elvis — when this is going on? Why am I getting the best coverage from Al Jazeera? Univivision has a sports program on, and Telemundo a movie. I get seven Spanish stations from Comcast, and none of them are covering it. It is making me crazy to have to depend on Al Jeez.
The ones at the airport are for.
why not give it some new 20mm air-conditioning, and then turn it into a fireball?
snip from last paragraph
Is this incoherent nonsense or have I lost my ability to understand English?
Where they screwed up was letting him leave the country in the first place. The best solution would have been............well best left unsaid.
It’s your move Baracko!
As I said, I disagree. He should be allowed to land; as a flaming ball of debris going 700 knots or so. Then the Honduran military should prepare a careful, cautious, thorough search for survivors.
It should only take 2 or 3 months to plan it.
Well, the governments of the world are pretty well set against human rights, Democracy and freedom, aren’t they, not to mention Christianity and Judaism - even the “conservative” president of Columbia.
It looks to me as though The New World Order is pretty far along towards Armegeddon. Stay tuned.
vaudine
Freaking coward.
“...defying a would be dictator...”
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More that that, defying the whole world!
... and defying the dreaded OAS and UN!
>> As I said, I disagree.
Oh yeah? Well I disagree with YOU.
He should be allowed to land!
Then the portable gibbet should be wheeled right to the doorway of his plane, and he should be promptly hung.
With piano wire.
;-)
Well I'll say it.
They should have arrested, tried and executed him for treason.
Micheletti’s press conference is live on Al Jazeera now.
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