Posted on 03/29/2016 12:46:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
BREAKING: At least one armed hijacker seized control of an EgyptAir flight from Alexandria to Cairo and ordered it flown to Cyprus Tuesday morning, according to officials from both countries.
A Cypriot government official told the Associated Press the hijacked plane landed at the airport in Larnaka, on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island, and that there are suspicions of a bomb on board.
A second Cypriot official says there "seems like there's more than one hijacker." He says there have been no demands other than that police vehicles move away from the aircraft.
Another Cypriot official said that women and children on board the aircraft were being allowed to leave and had begun to disembark.
Sky News reported that the short-haul Flight 181 took off from Alexandria at 8 a.m. local time. A hijacker contacted the control tower in Lanarka 30 minutes later and was given permission to land.
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Shades of the 1970s.
Shades of the 1970s.
Women and children allowed to disembark. How quaint. Too humane to be a typical Muslim hijacker. OTOH, what other kinds of hijackers are there in that part of the world?
It is not paranoid to think that this event is being used to divert attention away from some other “spectacular event” being planned. With the shooting at the Capitol CVC yesterday, terrorists may believe they can exploit these disruptions or interruptions.
The hijacker is a professor of veterinary medicine — strange profession for a hijacker?
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
The hijacker is a professor of veterinary medicine — strange profession for a hijacker?
An arab vet is kinda like an OB-GYN doctor.
This is like my childhood all over again, and why we should never take Israel off the Favorite contact list.
Now that right there.... That was funny.
“The hijacker - named as Seif Eldin Mustafa - allowed most to disembark. The Cyprus foreign ministry described Mustafa as “unstable” and said he appeared to be Egyptian.”
SKY News
According to A7, it was one lone dumbass, trying to reunite with his estranged wife in Cyprus.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210038
I did a search and got this from CBS
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There were initial reports on Cypriot and Egyptian media that a passenger on the flight identified as Ibrahim Abdel Tawab Samaha, a professor of veterinary medicine at Egypt's Alexandria University, was the hijacker. However, Samaha appeared hours later on BBC Arabic to discount those reports, saying he was not connected to the hijacking and was himeself held briefly as a hostage on the plane.
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So, is the hijacker dead?
No
I hear the hijacker belonged to a pretty large terrorist cell known as Al-Qrazy Ex-husbands.
#EgyptAir
No woman should be with a guy who is not willing to hijack a plane for her. #EgyptAir
Love us in the air #EgyptAir
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