Posted on 10/24/2008 7:15:18 AM PDT by flintsilver7
FNC is reporting now that a 737 has been hijacked with 130 people onboard and diverted to Vienna.
Is Obama frolicking in the surf again? How come every time the guy goes to Hawaii something happens in Russia?
13:57 GMT, Oct 24, 2008 Latest Headlines...
Russian airliner hijacked - sources
MOSCOW. Oct 24 (Interfax) - A passenger on an airliner flying from the Russian Black Sea resort of Adler to Moscow shouted “Allahu akbar” and told his fellow passengers at that he had seized the aircraft and
had demanded that the plane fly to Vienna, a source in Russian law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Friday.
The Boeing 735 airliner was due to land at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport at 5:45 p.m.
Five ambulances and a vehicle from the Emergency Medical Assistance Center have been sent to the airport. Another five ambulances have been reserved.
Transportation Ministry spokesman Timur Khikmatov told Interfax the ministry so far had not information on the alleged hijack.
http://www.interfax.com/3/439689/news.aspx
I doubt it matters. If it ends badly, you can bet that the Democrat peanut gallery and their media lackeys will blame it on the United States and tie it to McCain’s foreign policy proposals.
Sigh...
Those damn Amish are at it again.
This is merely a MOJ tactic to blame the ROP, I suspect.
Thank God we still have a Real President in charge of the Country.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A passenger aboard a Russian internal flight said the plane had been hijacked and must divert to Vienna, Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted a law enforcement source as saying on Friday.
No official confirmation of the report was immediately available.
“At 5.20 p.m. (1320 GMT) one of the passengers on a flight from Adler to Moscow cried ‘Allah Akbar’ and announced that the flight had been hijacked and demanded to change the course from Vnukovo (airport outside Moscow) to Vienna,” Interfax quoted the source as saying.
Adler is a town on Russia’s Black Sea coast in the mainly Muslim north Caucasus.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49N50X20081024
Ping
I hope it took more than just shouting “Allahu AKbar”, to take control of the plane.
Great one!
So, another damn Christian terrorist.
“At 5.20 p.m. (1320 GMT) one of the passengers on a flight from Adler to Moscow cried ‘Allah Akbar’
Damn Amish...
there is a big OPEC meeting in vienna...
You would think if it’s just one guy that the passengers would take him down.
Could be just a drunk, too much Russian vodka- we’ll have to wait and see.
Can anyone say “The Ezekiel Option”?
Play with fire Putin sometimes you get burned.
ROP, of course.
That’s one possible motivation. I couldn’t figure out why Vienna. When has been Austria been any sort of player?
I guess we can dismiss the possibility that Presbyterians were involved....
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