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Thai Jet Fighters Forced down the Plane Carrying N. Korean Arms [Breaking]
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 12/18/09 | Kwon Kyung-bok

Posted on 12/17/2009 7:17:49 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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Thai Jet Fighters Forced down the Plane Carrying N. Korean Arms

Kwon Kyung-bok

2009.12.18 04:19

A Russian daily reports.

The IL-76 freighter plane of Georgian registry which got caught while transporting N. Korean arms did not land on Thailand for refueling, but was forced down to land by Thai fighter planes after entering Thai airspace, according to Dec. 17 report by Russian daily Kommersant.

The paper reported that, as soon as the IL-76 plane which left Pyongyang entered Thai airspace, two Thai jet fighters intercepted the plane and order it to land on Don Muang Airport in Bangkok, tipped off by foreign intelligence.

This contradicts the earlier account by Thai government that the plane landed for refueling and checking tires(?.) It also suggest that the plane was physically blocked in Thai airspace before scheduled refueling stop at Sri Lanka, while carrying N. Korean weapons in violation of UN sanction. Until recently, N. Korea's arms exports have been mainly intercepted on high sea.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: intercept; nkorea; sanctions; smuggling; thailand
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To: TigerLikesRooster

THAI FIGHTERS!!!


21 posted on 12/17/2009 7:40:49 PM PST by GeronL
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To: pitbully

BTTT


22 posted on 12/17/2009 7:41:51 PM PST by granite ("We dare not tempt them with weakness" - JFK)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

N. Korea breaking UN sanctions!? I am appalled and shocked!


23 posted on 12/17/2009 7:42:12 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! Obama is a drive-by President.)
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To: rbosque

Let the Chinese deal with this.


24 posted on 12/17/2009 7:43:45 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks. I guess we’ll have to stay tuned here, since our press isn’t likely to cover this.


25 posted on 12/17/2009 7:46:32 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DemforBush

bump


26 posted on 12/17/2009 7:48:23 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

BTTT - thanks for posting TLR.


27 posted on 12/17/2009 7:50:00 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Niuhuru

Who knows how many other transports have found their way into the hands of terrorists.


28 posted on 12/17/2009 7:58:01 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! Obama is a drive-by President.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"North Korea earns about $1.5 billion annually from missile sales, mostly to Iran via airports in China, the U.S.-based Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis said in a report this year."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adJg6n7VEygs

Iran launched an improved Sejil 2 missile yesterday.

29 posted on 12/17/2009 8:04:37 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
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To: Cicero

I highly doubt the Georgian gov’t was involved. They have been purchasing arms from Ukraine anyway and don’t need North Korea. My guess is that it was a private charter company that was offered a ton of money to haul cargo, “no questions asked”, and had no idea what they were getting themselves into.


30 posted on 12/17/2009 8:06:24 PM PST by ksm1
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To: Cicero
Or was this somebody else using Georgian registration?

Using foreign registration is nothing new. It's most done to avoid certain levies and taxes. Why are Panamanian and Liberian flags commonly flown aboard tankers and freighters?

31 posted on 12/17/2009 8:09:42 PM PST by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Three cheers for the brave Thai jet fighter pilots. Way to go guys!!!


32 posted on 12/17/2009 8:14:56 PM PST by GOPJ (Journalists as BaghdadBobLite - Global Warming Scientists as ElmerGantry - what's happening?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thailand?


33 posted on 12/17/2009 8:21:07 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The information I have is that it was Lockheed Martin Fighting Falcon F-16 fighters of the RTAF which brought that big, overstuffed nasty bird down this week with it’s over the hill bush pilot mercenary crew and the Christmas presents stuffed to the brim for Achmedinenutjob—which needless to say he will not be getting this year (at least this flight).


34 posted on 12/17/2009 9:36:32 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Widely known overseas: "Yell "RACIST!!" & many Americans will shut up & you can control the debate")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Some Chinese dude named “Zhang” runs that black ops front company in New Zealand that contracted that cargo flight from Pyongyang to Teheran. Stuff will be coming out on HIM no doubt, in a very short time.


35 posted on 12/17/2009 9:39:13 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Widely known overseas: "Yell "RACIST!!" & many Americans will shut up & you can control the debate")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

smoke um...drop um in the drink


36 posted on 12/17/2009 9:43:28 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Got that right Aniki.


37 posted on 12/17/2009 10:08:54 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream.)
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To: pnh102

“Thai” Fighters...INcomiiiiiiinnnnng!


38 posted on 12/17/2009 10:54:01 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , and truth (.Member NRA))
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39 posted on 12/17/2009 11:05:03 PM PST by John Will
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To: Moe Tzadik
I read recently that the GDP of Iran equals that of the state of Alabama.
There are more people in metro Houston, Texas than in the whole state of Alabama.

There must not be much to Iran.

40 posted on 12/17/2009 11:05:40 PM PST by blam
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