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2010-01-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Ethiopian jet crashes off Lebanon, 90 on board

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Check the genital area of all bodies for missing penis and testicles AKA "Pantybomber".

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-26 00:46|| 2010-01-26 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, check this out. In the CBS News article they said this: Accordingto a government official, Abdulmutallab first arrived in the Ghana capitol of Addis Ababa on December 9 after spending five months in Yemen. Double sic. It's capital, not capitol. And the capital of Ghana is not Addis Ababa, as Shereter Poodle9774 and Old Patriot said. But if you go back to the original CBS story, they have a link to their own, separate story on the FBI safari. Here's an excerpt from that:
Abdulmutallabarrived in Lagos, Nigeria December 24 from a flight originating in Ghana. He then flew to Amsterdam where he boarded a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas.

Details are scarce because "this is a security issue," James Agyenim-Boateng, the country's Deputy Information Minister, told CBS News. He said the FBI had been in the country since Saturday and that no arrests have been made as of yet.

Agyenim-Boateng said Abdulmutallab, upon arriving in Ghana Dec. 9 from Ethiopia, had listed one hotel where he was staying on his immigration form, but actually stayed in a different hotel.

So I think what CBS meant to write in the first article was: "Abdulmutallab first arrived in the Ghana capitol from Addis Ababa."

Ethiopian 409's destination was Addis Ababa. Abdulmutallab was there, in between his 5 month Yemen stay and his two week Ghana stay.

Posted by Pstanley 2010-01-26 01:48|| http://pscrutineer.wordpress.com 2010-01-26 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I expect far better than this whole thing.
We are approaching the 72 hour mark. We have record number of non flys, in air disturbances, and wacked out statements.

All air travel is now becoming a full time bomb sniffing job for everyone. You think this jet was just a busted oxygen tank?

18 incidents in the last 5 months and all the no flyers are showing up at the gates.

This is not some kind of joke with the air incidents - this really is a tempest in a teapot.

Posted by newc 2010-01-26 02:28|| 2010-01-26 02:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I fear you are correct newc and it is just a matter of time.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-26 07:59|| 2010-01-26 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 "Up until now we have ruled out foul play," Suleiman told reporters.

Inspector! How do you do it?

The FBI told us to make it the default assumption.

Posted by Inspector Suleiman the Magnificent 2010-01-26 09:24|| 2010-01-26 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Ethiopian 409's destination was Addis Ababa. Abdulmutallab was there, in between his 5 month Yemen stay and his two week Ghana stay.

AQ is also in Addis Adaba, apparently. Check out excerpts from this article, BlackNews.com - An Interview With Kola Boof, Osama Bin Laden's Mistress:

The author of six books published in eight countries, Kola Boof is not only Sudan's top selling novelist, but in 1996, was the mistress of Osama Bin Laden.....a fact that jeopardized her American citizenship four years ago, until Morocco's Prince Fabrizzio Ruspolli confirmed Boof's claim that she had been held against her will by Bin Laden at Ruspoli's estate for sexual purposes.
In her memoir, Diary of a Lost Girl, coming Feb. 1st in hardcover (0-9712019-8-6), Boof reveals a side of the terror chief that's never been explored before. In a telephone interview, I learned a few things that I never expected to find out...such as where he's been hiding.....The fact is...Osama Bin Laden was in Morocco in 1996, he was in Afghanistan, he lived in Sudan, he went to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt that year. He went to Iran for a wedding. Peter Bergen and none of these know-it-all white men know a damned thing about where Osama was...if they did...the U.S. government would have been able to find Osama back in 1996.

There have been lots of Morroccan's involved in plots over the years, too. The hunt needs to expand to greater Africa.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-01-26 10:50|| 2010-01-26 10:50|| Front Page Top

#7 More on the crash:
BEIRUT The pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the sea flew in the opposite direction from the path recommended by the control tower after taking off from Beirut in thunderstorms, Lebanon's transportation minister said Tuesday.

All 90 people on board were feared dead after the plane bound for Addis Ababa went down in flames minutes after takeoff at around 2:30 a.m. Monday.

Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi said the pilot initially followed the tower's guidance, but then abruptly changed course and went in the opposite direction.

"They asked him to correct his path but he did a very fast and strange turn before disappearing completely from the radar," Aridi told AP.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-01-26 11:16|| 2010-01-26 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Interesting but let's wait until we get the Black Boxes and see what the stick was doing.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-01-26 12:33|| 2010-01-26 12:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Abu Mohamed, in the baggage compartment, with the barometrically fused bomb.

Posted by SteveS 2010-01-26 20:44|| 2010-01-26 20:44|| Front Page Top

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