Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
03-11-2014, 09:39 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-09/use-of-stolen-passports-spurs-terrorism-fears-over-vanished-jet.html
Use of Stolen Passports on Vanished Jet Raises Concern About Terrorism
By Rosalind Mathieson and Sharon Chen Mar 10, 2014 3:32 AM CT
The use of stolen passports by two passengers to board a Malaysian airliner that vanished over the South China Sea sends a “red flag” that terrorism may have played a part, according to security officials and analysts.
Groups such as al-Qaeda have sought to crash planes into oceans to cover up evidence, they said. A Singapore aircraft looking for the Malaysian Airline Boeing Co (BA) 777-200 today spotted what appears to be a life raft in the sea, with two ships sent to the area in the Gulf of Thailand to search for it, Vietnam officials said.
No evidence exists of terrorism at this point, said a U.S. official following the case who asked not to be identified because the investigation is in its early stages. Even so, terrorism needs to considered, said New York Republican Representative Peter King, who is a member of the House intelligence and Homeland Security committees.
“When you get the red flag of two passengers flying with stolen passports it could well be more than a coincidence,” King told Bloomberg Television. There needs to be a “full scrub” of everyone on the flight, and U.S. intelligence agencies are working with their counterparts in Asia, he said.
“It could well turn out just to have been a terrible accident,” King said. “We are not saying it’s terrorism, but we have to do everything we can to rule it out.”
The Malaysian Airline (MAS) System Bhd. plane, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, was carrying 239 people, including 153 Chinese passengers and three U.S. citizens. Nations searching for the plane had little to go on with no distress calls, emergency-beacon signals, bad weather or other signs why an airliner would lose touch in one of the safest phases of flight.
Investigators will probably consider the two passengers using fake passports “instant suspects” and seek to establish their identities, said John Magaw, a former administrator of the Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“That raised huge red flags -- the stolen passports and the plane crashing over water,” said Magaw, who also was director of the U.S. Secret Service and is now a security consultant. Also the possibility that either one or both pilots decided to go Jihad looks strong right now because they now know the plane changed course, flew a few hundred miles and then disappeared. Could it have been deliberately flown into the sea? Answer is now, yes that is a possibility. That has happened in the past . An Egyptian airline case. They found the pilot went Jihad and crashed it deliberately. Notice how hard they try not to mention the T-WORD!! -Tyr
Use of Stolen Passports on Vanished Jet Raises Concern About Terrorism
By Rosalind Mathieson and Sharon Chen Mar 10, 2014 3:32 AM CT
The use of stolen passports by two passengers to board a Malaysian airliner that vanished over the South China Sea sends a “red flag” that terrorism may have played a part, according to security officials and analysts.
Groups such as al-Qaeda have sought to crash planes into oceans to cover up evidence, they said. A Singapore aircraft looking for the Malaysian Airline Boeing Co (BA) 777-200 today spotted what appears to be a life raft in the sea, with two ships sent to the area in the Gulf of Thailand to search for it, Vietnam officials said.
No evidence exists of terrorism at this point, said a U.S. official following the case who asked not to be identified because the investigation is in its early stages. Even so, terrorism needs to considered, said New York Republican Representative Peter King, who is a member of the House intelligence and Homeland Security committees.
“When you get the red flag of two passengers flying with stolen passports it could well be more than a coincidence,” King told Bloomberg Television. There needs to be a “full scrub” of everyone on the flight, and U.S. intelligence agencies are working with their counterparts in Asia, he said.
“It could well turn out just to have been a terrible accident,” King said. “We are not saying it’s terrorism, but we have to do everything we can to rule it out.”
The Malaysian Airline (MAS) System Bhd. plane, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, was carrying 239 people, including 153 Chinese passengers and three U.S. citizens. Nations searching for the plane had little to go on with no distress calls, emergency-beacon signals, bad weather or other signs why an airliner would lose touch in one of the safest phases of flight.
Investigators will probably consider the two passengers using fake passports “instant suspects” and seek to establish their identities, said John Magaw, a former administrator of the Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“That raised huge red flags -- the stolen passports and the plane crashing over water,” said Magaw, who also was director of the U.S. Secret Service and is now a security consultant. Also the possibility that either one or both pilots decided to go Jihad looks strong right now because they now know the plane changed course, flew a few hundred miles and then disappeared. Could it have been deliberately flown into the sea? Answer is now, yes that is a possibility. That has happened in the past . An Egyptian airline case. They found the pilot went Jihad and crashed it deliberately. Notice how hard they try not to mention the T-WORD!! -Tyr