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Recent plot created by Malaysian Islamists to hijack a Malaysia Airlines plane in 9/11-style (Original Post) Iwasthere Mar 2014 OP
... CJCRANE Mar 2014 #1
The link Jesus Malverde Mar 2014 #2
Ah, the Torygraph Warpy Mar 2014 #3
This is interesting from the OP's link Jesus Malverde Mar 2014 #5
Several other news outlets, most notably the ones in Malaysia, itself Warpy Mar 2014 #6
so I wonder why the MIIC didn't know about this plot? grasswire Mar 2014 #4

Warpy

(111,259 posts)
3. Ah, the Torygraph
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 01:40 PM
Mar 2014

Sorry, I hate to shoot the messenger, but...

The plans for 9/11 were apparently hashed out in Indonesia. Malaysia hasn't been a hotbed of terrorism thus far, maybe whoever hijacked the plane thought it was time to compete.

All we know now is that we know nothing about what happened to the people or the plane. Likely the people are dead. Likely the plane is in little pieces somewhere. But we don't know.

Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
5. This is interesting from the OP's link
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 01:52 PM
Mar 2014

According to British media reports, police are investigating the possibility that Captain Shah hijacked his own aircraft in a political protest.

The pilot was a political fanatic and “obsessive” supporter of Malaysia’s opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, The Mail on Sunday says.

Hours before Flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur, the pilot is said to have attended a controversial trial in which Ibrahim - who has been harassed and jailed on successive charges of homosexuality and sodomy - was jailed for five years.

Police sources say Captain Shah was a political activist and fear that the court decision left him profoundly upset.

Warpy

(111,259 posts)
6. Several other news outlets, most notably the ones in Malaysia, itself
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 01:56 PM
Mar 2014

have suggested that the captain hijacked his own plane.

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