World Terrorism: Granny's Googles/News/History/Much Much More.

Europe's botched civilization, perverted by socialism and lost faith, seems to have lost the will, the passion to sustain itself. If it continues to practice today's multiculturalist leftism, Europe's demographic doom will be sealed. Some harbingers:

In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name for baby boys is now Mohammad. Sustaining the population of a nation requires that on average each couple gives birth to 2.1 children. The average European couple now has fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to 3.6 babies born to the average Muslim immigrant couple in Europe. Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies are being born into Muslim families. In France at least 12 percent of the population is already Muslim, the fruits mostly of immigrants from former French colonies in North Africa. If present birth trends continue, by 2030 a quarter of France's people will be Muslim, more than enough to determine who controls the national parliament and executive. As this columnist recently noted, the nuclear-armed French military is already 15 percent Muslim. Adjacent Switzerland is now 20 percent Muslim. The German newspaper Deutsche Welle days ago reported that Germany's birth rate in 2005 fell to a level lower than at the end of World War II, to a "historic low," more than fifty percent lower than those of France and Great Britain. But at a meeting this week in Berlin that brought together the interior ministers of six European nations, Germany's leftwing Social Democrats continued to oppose the application of any test or standard that would restrict who could migrate into Germany.

The burgeoning Muslim population within Europe is not evenly spread. It is largely concentrated in and around big cities, whose local politicians feel its pressure acutely and often bend to that pressure. In the Netherlands the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam nearly have Muslim majorities now.

These Islamic enclaves are already taking on the character of conquered provinces that no longer belong to the European countries around them. As FrontPage Magazine recently quoted from the new book While Europe Slept by liberal American expatriate Bruce Bawer:

In France, a public official met with an imam at the edge of Roubaix's Muslim district out of respect for his declaration of the neighborhood as Islamic territory to which she had no right of access. In Britain, imams have pressed the government to officially designate certain areas of Bradford as being under Muslim, not British, law. In Denmark, Muslim leaders have sought the same kind of control over parts of Copenhagen. And in Belgium, Muslims living in the Brussels neighborhood of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek already view it not as part of Belgium but as an area under Islamic jurisdiction in which Belgians are not welcome.

OK, take a tranquilizer, before reading this.

Will the stolen/missing airplane with Padilla, suddenly turn up?

Dumb question, is this plane in Venezuela now? How close is it, from where it disappeared?

I will find the links for Padilla and post in another post, this one first.....granny

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Tehran's Unfriendly Skies
military.com ^ | April 11, 2006 | John Weisman

Posted on 04/11/2006 5:38:52 PM MDT by Tailgunner Joe

A group of well financed Islamo-fascist terrorists buy current models
of American-built jets, paint them to look like passenger or cargo
aircraft, then fly suicide missions against targets in the West.

That sounds like the plot of one of my novels. But according to a
well-placed source of mine, it's exactly what the Iranian government
has been trying to do for more than a year now. Commercial aircraft
brokers on at least two continents have received shadowy inquiries
they believe originate in Tehran to buy eight-year-old or younger
B737 new generation airplanes, and B747-400 aircraft of the same
vintage, price no object.

The fact that Iran may be trying to buy American made jet aircraft
clandestinely and is willing to pay sky's-the-limit prices is hugely
worrisome. According to Joshua R. Edkins [pseudonym], a retired
supergrade CIA clandestine service operative, “Buying aircraft is very
competitive and the first question usually asked is, ‘How much.?'
When price doesn't matter, something's wrong. Such is the case here.
If Iran buys these aircraft, what better way to deliver a nuke?”

Edkins and others with knowledge of the Tehran regime believe that it
would be operationally feasible for Iran to buy an aircraft, fit it with a
primitive nuclear device, and launch the plane against an American
target. The suicide crew might be Iranian, or the mission could be
jobbed out to one of Iran's owned-and-operated Shia surrogates like
Hezbollah, or even sub-contracted to a Sunni al-Qa'ida or al-Qa'ida in
Iraq cell.

“They'll train a crew and insert a Plutonium bomb using dated Fat-Boy
technology -- which is why they need a fat belly aircraft,” says Edkins.

Indeed, flight training could be conducted in Iran. The pilots could
conceivably become proficient enough to fly Iran Air flights in order to
learn commercial procedures and develop confidence dealing with air
control centers.

Operationally, a mission against the US would be incredibly tough --
but not impossible. And the Iranians have both patience and a
long-term weltanschauung when it comes to these sorts of terror
operations. You want weltanschauung? Long before the Ayatollah
Khomeini came to power, the nucleus of what would become his
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was training in Lebanon's Beka'a
Valley under the protection of the PLO's Yasser Arafat. So by the time
Arafat and his minions left Beirut for Tunis in 1982, Iran had already
established itself to fill the terror vacuum in Lebanon by creating what
would become Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad Organization. And
patience? After the 1979 seizure of the American Embassy, hundreds
of pages of shredded CIA documents were painstakingly reconstructed
strand by strand.

So now, Tehran can take its time too. The Iranians can spend weeks,
even months monitoring and recording communications between
commercial aircraft and regional FAA control centers or even NORAD
by using scanners, thus familiarizing the suicide crew with what they'd
have to say as they approached U.S. airspace. The same techniques
could be used to glean language from flight control in Western Europe.

The airliners could go through a series of identity changes that would
make them nigh on impossible to trace. And when it came time to use
them, they wouldn't have to be painted to look like jets belonging to
United Airlines or other U.S.-based carriers, either. Any airline that
flies 737s or 747s would do -- even FedEx or other airfreight carriers.
The list of false IDs would also probably also include aircraft from
South America, where Iran is currently deepening its ties with such
anti-US leaders as Venezuela's rabidly anti-American president Hugo
Chavez.

Indeed, the growing Tehran-Caracas axis is troubling on a number of
levels. When I was in Paris recently, a source of mine with well-placed
intelligence connections in Tehran mentioned that as far back as early
2005 the mullahs had budgeted more than $200 million to spread
around in South America, where a growing number of the continent's
new leaders, epitomized by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, are
turning both leftward and increasingly anti-US in their policies.

Venezuelan president Chavez is a vocal supporter of Iran's nuclear
program. As far back as March of 2005, the then-president of Iran,
Mohammad Khatami, received a warm welcome from the Venezuelan
strongman. Khatami did not visit Chavez empty-handed either. He
delivered 100,000 AK-47 assault rifles (an impressive number of
weapons considering the fact that the Venezuelan armed forces
number only slightly more than 80,000) as well as a cadre of Iranian
experts -- several hundred “engineers” and “technicians” to help set
up joint commercial ventures. Those joint ventures also provide
perfect cover for status for clandestine officers from Iran's intelligence
service, the Ministry of Security and Information, thus allowing Iran's
Seppah-e Pasdaran (the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), to
establish a fertile and hospitable hub from which to recruit agents,
gather intelligence, and organize terror operations against the United
States.

Chavez and the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have
also exchanged warm greetings in recent months. Ahmadinejad, who
has called for the eradication of Israel and claimed the Holocaust
never took place, is said to have been impressed by Chavez's 2005
Christmas Eve broadcast, during which the Venezuelan made a
number of anti-Semitic remarks.

And how does the current Caracas-Tehran love-fest dovetail with
Iran's attempts to buy American aircraft and fly one at a U.S. target?
The answer is that the Venezuelan president might actually be loony
enough to be persuaded to allow Tehran to substitute its suicide
mission for a Venezuelan flight. Fiction? Like I said, it sounds like the
plot of one of my novels. But stranger things have actually happened.

[The comments are shaping up for reading value, also]

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Iran Proposes Resuming Direct U.S. Flights
LAS VEGAS SUN ^ | January 26, 2006 | NASSER KARIMI

Posted on 01/26/2006 9:56:58 AM MST by gdzla

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said Thursday it
has proposed resuming direct flights between Iran and the United
States after more than 25 years, despite political hostilities between
the two countries.

Read full article:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2006/jan/26/012600040.html

(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
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Post #9 from the list, note the last paragraph.

Iran Proposes Resuming Direct
U.S. Flights

By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press WriterThu Jan 26, 6:30 AM ET

Iran's Civil Aviation Organization said Thursday it has proposed
resuming direct flights between Iran and the United States after more
than 25 years, despite political hostilities between the two countries.

Raza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the aviation organization, said
Iranians living in the United States had asked for the flights when
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited New York to attend a U.N.
meeting in September, and the Iranian leader directed the
organization to consider the request.

"On Wednesday, we sent a letter to the head of the civil aviation in
the United States declaring our readiness" to resume direct flights,
Jafarzadeh said.

There was no immediate response from the United States.

Iran and the United States severed air links when Washington broke
relations in 1979 after Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran and held the occupants hostage.

Iran's proposal comes amid an international impasse over a
U.S.-backed push to bring the Islamic country before the U.N. Security
Council over its nuclear program. The United States suspects Iran is
trying to develop atomic weapons, a claim Tehran denies.

Jafarzadeh acknowledged the proposal stood in contrast to the
prevailing political tensions between the two countries, but said: "It
was just an answer to a demand by passengers who found their
luggage was being damaged at various connection points on the way
to the United States."

About 1 million Iranians live in the United States, mostly in California.
Thousands fly to Iran every year, often changing planes in London,
Amsterdam and Frankfurt.

"Iran plans to resume flights to both New York and Los Angeles,"
Jafarzadeh said. "Iranian and foreign airlines, including American
ones, could fly the routes."

AP via Yahoo
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http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=airliner%20crashes%20in%20Iran

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Iran%20blames%20U.S.%20for%20plane%20crashes%20in%20Iran

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Iran%20has%20plans%20to%20attack%20the%20U.S.

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=different%20types%20of%20attacks%20that%20Iran%20plans%20for%20United%20States

Enough for now, as this will give me nightmares..........g

Nov. 2005

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"Stolen Iranian laptop, as evidence of N-plan" [NYT
Has Also Picked Up This News]
Iran Mania ^ | Nov. 13, 2005 | Unknown

Posted on 11/14/2005 6:17:30 AM MST by conservativecorner

LONDON, November 13 (IranMania) - US intelligence officials have
shown leaders of the International Atomic Energy Agency a stolen
Iranian laptop computer containing nuclear designs as proof the
country is secretly pursuing a nuclear weapons program, The New
York Times reported on its website.

The newspaper said that during the demonstration, which took place
in Vienna in mid-July, officials displayed selections from more than a
thousand pages of Iranian computer simulations and accounts of
experiments, saying they showed a long effort to design a nuclear
warhead.

The Americans acknowledged that the documents do not prove that
Iran has an atomic bomb, the report said.

But they presented them as the strongest evidence yet that the
country is trying to develop a compact warhead to fit atop its Shahab
missile, which can reach Israel and other countries in the Middle East,
the NYT added.

The briefing for officials of the IAEA, including its director Mohamed
ElBaradei, was a secret part of a US campaign to increase
international pressure on Iran, The Times said.

But while the intelligence has sold well among countries like Britain,
France and Germany, which reviewed the documents as long as a year
ago, it has been a tougher sell with countries outside the inner circle,
according to the report.

According to the NYT, The computer contained studies for crucial
features of a nuclear warhead, according to European and US officials
who had examined the material, including a telltale sphere of
detonators to trigger an atomic explosion, the paper said.

Nonetheless, doubts about the intelligence persist among some
foreign analysts because US officials, citing the need to protect their
source, have largely refused to provide details of the origins of the
laptop computer beyond saying that they obtained it in mid-2004 from
a longtime contact in Iran, according to The Times.

"I can fabricate that data," the paper quotes an unnamed senior
European diplomat as saying of the documents. "It looks beautiful, but
is open to doubt."

I had forgotten this one, is/was it a test run? England first and then America, has there been a like incident in Iraly, I think so, forgot details, something with the Vatican?........granny

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Plane flies too low into airport [UK airport, Iranian
plane]
BBC News on line ^ | February 23, 2006 | Unsigned

Posted on 02/23/2006 12:52:31 PM MST by aculeus

Inquiries have started after an aeroplane landing at Birmingham
International Airport came in too low.

The passenger airliner is reported to have descended to 600ft (182m)
six miles from the airport - experts said it should have been at 1,800ft
(550m).

National Air Traffic Services has confirmed the incident near
Kenilworth, Warwickshire, happened on Thursday.

The aircraft and its flight data recorder are being held by the Air
Accidents Investigation Branch.

The Airbus A310, with an unknown number of passengers on board,
was being operated by Iranian airline Mahan Air.

It was spotted flying low over Honiley, near Kenilworth, as it began its
descent at about midday.

'Wheels too low'

A farmer in nearby Meer End rang the airport to say a plane had flown
too low over his farm.

John Conneally said he could see the plane's wheels were down.

"It looked like it was only 200 to 300 feet up as it nearly hit the straw
stack. It happened so quickly it was like a boom," he said.

The plane then started to climb again, he said.

"The pilot on the plane must have seen us. We were looking after the
cattle in the shed and the cattle went mad," he added.

Reports say the pilot was alerted and told to climb, which he did
before making a second attempt at landing.

Story from BBC NEWS:

Published: 2006/02/23 17:25:02 GMT

More history and unfinished business:

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BEA finds no likely cause for January 2004 Flash
Airlines Egypt Boeing 737-300 crash
Flight International ^ | 28 Feb 06 | staff

Posted on 03/02/2006 3:22:44 AM MST by saganite

Investigation into Flash Airlines accident highlights several potentially
fatal factors

When the final report on the 3 January 2004 Flash Airlines crash into
the Red Sea is published in late March it will not identify a probable
cause for the accident, according to the Egyptian chief investigator
Shaker Qelada. He indicates that a number of potential causes will be
cited, but the report will not clarify whether these are alternatives or
cumulative effects.

The Boeing 737-300, flying a charter taking French holiday-makers
back to France from Sharm el-Sheikh on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, was
airborne 3min 6s from the beginning of the take-off roll until it crashed
into the sea in a steep dive at night, according to the preliminary
factual report published by the investigators. The Egyptian Civil
Aviation Authority, quoted by the country’s official news agency MENA,
says the report will, among other factors, cite “faults in the automatic
pilot”. According to the flight data and cockpit voice recorder (FDR and
CVR) information in the factual report, the autopilot would not remain
engaged; there was 5s between the captain calling for the autopilot
and the co-pilot reporting it was “in command”, then another 2s
before the autopilot disengage warning sounded. The FDR indicates
the autopilot remained disengaged for the rest of the flight.

The rest of the report is here. I missed it because it was further down
on the page below a oictorial of the flight path A possible cause for the
autopilot’s failure to engage is that the aircraft was out of trim.
According to the FDR read-out in the factual report, when the captain
called for flap retraction some 30s before the attempt to engage the
autopilot, the No.1 leading-edge slat alone remained extended in its
mid-position for the rest of the flight – with no warning of this status
acknowledged by either of the crew. The slat asymmetry would have
produced a tendency to roll right, from this point the aircraft began
gradually to roll from the crew’s intended left turn into a right turn
with progressively steepening bank, reaching 111?x2DA; right wing
down at its maximum. During the 1min between the autopilot
disengage warning and the aircraft’s impact with the sea, the captain
says “Autopilot” four times, seemingly unable to understand why it
was allowing the aircraft to turn right. With only 10s to go to impact,
the co-pilot exclaims “No autopilot, commander!”
2 posted on 03/02/2006 3:25:36 AM MST by saganite (The poster
formerly known as Arkie 2)

grrrr, I fought the Free Republic search for what seemed like hours, gave up and went to google, found 1, but so far not the other half dozen..........

Check the comments to get the full story:

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Hide in Plane Sight (Authorities fear Boeing 727
stolen in Angola may be used in terrorism)
ABC News ^ | June 18, 2003 | Pierre Thomas

Posted on 06/18/2003 8:45:15 PM MDT by HAL9000

Hide in Plane Sight

Family of Possible 727 Pilot: "He Is Not a Terrorist"

W A S H I N G T O N, June 18 - While international authorities
continue their search for a missing jetliner, fearful that it could
be used in a terror attack, the family of the American believed
to have been piloting the aircraft worries about his fate.

Workers at Luanda Airport in Angola watched dumbfounded on
May 25 as a Boeing 727 taxied down the runway and took off -
without permission. The plane - which ABCNEWS has learned
was refitted to haul diesel fuel tanks, making it a potential
flying bomb - has not been seen since.

The man the U.S. government suspects of piloting the 727 is
Benjamin Padilla - a U.S. citizen from Florida. Padilla, too, has
vanished, and his family is worried.

"I am concerned that he might have been hijacked," Padilla's
brother, Joseph, said in an exclusive interview with ABCNEWS.

"It's very painful," said Padilla's sister, Benita. "The whole
family is in anguish, not knowing what happened to our
brother."

The family believes Padilla, a licensed mechanic and pilot, flew
to Angola on behalf of Aerospace Sales and Leasing, a
Florida-based company that bought the 727 from American
Airlines two years ago. The plane had not been moved for
more than a year, and his family believes Padilla went to see
whether it was fit to fly.

Neither Padilla's family nor ABCNEWS has been able to reach
anyone at Aerospace Sales and Leasing. No one was at the
office when ABCNEWS visited today and phone calls were not
answered.

U.S. Officials Stumped

Despite the use of satellites to scour the African landscape,
and a request to all African embassies for information, U.S.
officials said they still have no clue about the plane's location.

"We don't have any reliable assessments about what this
portends, what it could be, who may be behind it." White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer said today.

Most intelligence officials believe the plane was stolen to run
drugs or guns, or as part of an insurance scam.

However, they have not ruled out the possibility the plane is in
the hands of terrorists - perhaps plotting to target U.S.
embassies in Africa.

Padilla's family maintains there is no way he would be involved
in such a plan.

"I can guarantee my brother is not a criminal and he is not a
terrorist," said Benita Padilla.

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