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Africa North
Air Mauritania Muslim Hijacker Subdued by Pilot, Passengers
2007-02-16
A bit more detail on the earlier story...
Category: good old fashion ass whooping
Feb. 15: An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane is seen at Gando military base in Las Palmas on the Canary island of Gran Cararia, Spain.
MADRID, Spain — A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man down so travelers could pounce on him, Spanish officials said Friday.
Get the feeling they weren't to gentle with this idiot
A lone gunman brandishing two pistols hijacked the Air Mauritania Boeing 737, carrying 71 passengers and a crew of eight, Thursday evening shortly after it took off from the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott for Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, with a planned stopover in Nouadhibou in northern Mauritania. He wanted to divert the plane to France so he could request political asylum, said Mohamed Ould Mohamed Cheikh, Mauritania's top police official.
Just in time for the Muslim burnings of Paris. Is that a weekly thing now or just Monthly?
The hijacker has been identified as Mohamed Abderraman, ...
now there's a suprise
... a 32-year-old Mauritanian, said an official with the Spanish Interior Ministry office on Tenerife, another of the islands in the Atlantic archipelago. He spoke under rules barring publication of his name. Mauritania has said the hijacker was a Muslim Moroccan from the Western Sahara.
To bad they didn't throw him and his turban into the turbine. Guess mistakes will happen.
Posted by:Icerigger

#14  afaict all the guys who jumped him, and perhaps the pilot, were muslim as well.

Not likely since the flight was going to Canary Islands. Majority Spanish tourists returning from holiday.
Posted by: ed   2007-02-16 23:02  

#13  afaict all the guys who jumped him, and perhaps the pilot, were muslim as well.

That's nice. Lemme know when that happens on a US domestic flight.
Posted by: Pappy   2007-02-16 21:28  

#12  --Flight attendants then threw boiling water from a coffee machine in his face--

Nice to know "the world" was paying attention after 9/11.

Was it SOP before?
Posted by: anonymous2u   2007-02-16 21:19  

#11  uh huh... It's too early for a bedtime story....will you be back later?
Posted by: Frank G   2007-02-16 18:17  

#10  "Should we be surprised that Muslims will fight for their lives?"

certainly not, when muslims are fighting jihadis across the muslim world.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-02-16 17:48  

#9  Flight attendants then threw boiling water from a coffee machine in his face

Bet this is practiced reaction.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-02-16 17:14  

#8  how odd. a muslim hijacking a plane? Someone call CAIR before we start profiling. FYI Great story that could only be improved by the Jihadi Hijacker swinging from a rope in the very near future.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-02-16 14:22  

#7  "Should we be surprised that Muslims will fight for their lives?"

Interesting question, that.
Posted by: kelly   2007-02-16 14:07  

#6  afaict all the guys who jumped him, and perhaps the pilot, were muslim as well

Should we be surprised that Muslims will fight for their lives?
Posted by: Shineger Unatle5424   2007-02-16 14:02  

#5  In the immortal words of Dean Martin:
"Ain't that a kick in the head?"
Posted by: mojo   2007-02-16 13:55  

#4  afaict all the guys who jumped him, and perhaps the pilot, were muslim as well.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-02-16 13:47  

#3  "some 10 people jumped on the man and beat him"

Heh.™

I particularly like the beating part. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-02-16 13:06  

#2  It worked. The man was standing in the middle aisle when the pilot carried out his maneuver, and he fell to the floor, dropping one of his two 7mm pistols. Flight attendants then threw boiling water from a coffee machine in his face and at his chest, and some 10 people jumped on the man and beat him, the Spanish official said.

truly heart warming, I hope they beat this bastard into bloody pulp.
Posted by: RD   2007-02-16 12:48  

#1   Mohamed was still breathing when taken off the plane? For shame.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-02-16 12:32  

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