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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
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To: HAL9000
sorry hal ... my keyboard WAS STUCK ON SMART A$$
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:58:14 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
From the CIA Factbook on Mauritania, seems there's some current events that might be involved? Here:
Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed TAYA seized power in a coup in 1984. Opposition parties were legalized and a new constitution approved in 1991. Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as flawed, but October 2001 legislative and municipal elections were generally free and open. A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council headed by Col. Ely Ould Mohamed VALL, which declared it would remain in power for up to two years while it created conditions for genuine democratic institutions and organized elections. Accordingly, parliamentary elections were held in December of 2006 and senatorial and presidential elections will follow (January and March 2007 respectively). The newly-elected legislature is expected to assume power following the inauguration of the new president. For now, however, Mauritania remains an autocratic state, and the country continues to experience ethnic tensions among its black population and different Moor (Arab-Berber) communities.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:58:15 AM PST
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: Philistone
"There was at least one armed person on board. We don't know his identity," the state news agency chief, Moussa Hamed, said."
To: HAL9000
Al Qaeda rarely stages one attack at a time.
Eyes open till this is over.
44
posted on
02/15/2007 11:58:35 AM PST
by
jeffers
To: HAL9000
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - A hijacked Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane has landed on Spain's Canary Islands after making a fuel stop in Western Sahara, officials in Mauritania said on Thursday.
"It has gone to the Canaries," a source close to the presidency told Reuters. The head of the Mauritanian state news agency said the plane had already touched down.
45
posted on
02/15/2007 12:01:19 PM PST
by
Between the Lines
(I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations. So should you.)
To: HAL9000
From the BBC article...
46
posted on
02/15/2007 12:01:29 PM PST
by
LikeLight
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To: Fighting Irish
...AND BLAMING BUSH FOR WHATEVER IS GOING ON! If it happened it's BUSH'S FAULT!!! You know that.
To: HAL9000
http://www.canarias7.es via translation
URGENT20:03 officious Fuentes indicates that the kidnapping is controlled. Apparently the apparatus landed with an open door and it is afraid that some passenger has fallen to the emptiness. The aerial traffic has been turned aside to Tenerife and the kidnapped airplane is in Military Base of Gando.
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:05:39 PM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: Between the Lines
I wonder why they would land on the Canary Islands, if they had just refueled in nearby Western Sahara.
To: HAL9000
...it is afraid that some passenger has fallen to the emptiness... Not a good thing.
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:06:54 PM PST
by
LikeLight
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To: leadpenny
Mauritania is a former French colony. That may very well explain their choice of Paris as a destination.
Sure hope that some of our esteemed cable news channels can find the time to advise on this situation.
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:07:31 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Swiftboating - Sinking a politician's Ship of Fools by Torpedoes of Truth)
To: jeffers
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:07:45 PM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: HAL9000
"The Boeing 737 landed at a military airport in Gran Canaria and was surrounded by paramilitary Civil Guard police, according to Cadena SER radio."
To: No Blue States
Maybe forced down? Wonder if the hijacker bailed, or caused others to do so?
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:08:21 PM PST
by
LikeLight
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To: LikeLight
Not a good thing. Unless it was the hijacker who got thrown out. We shall see.
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:09:23 PM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: LikeLight
To: sageb1
Airliners.net poster says several wounded by gunfire.
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posted on
02/15/2007 12:09:50 PM PST
by
LikeLight
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To: HAL9000
58
posted on
02/15/2007 12:10:05 PM PST
by
jdm
To: OldFriend
Doubt it. Last time I checked, MSNBC was wall to wall Anna Nicole, except when an aiplane had a gear problem in California.
To: jdm
Good find. That settles that.
A happy ending.
(happier had the hijacker been capped)
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