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coogebeachhotel

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Peter Allen, in Paris
Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged.




Debris from Air France flight AF 447 has been recovered from the Atlantic


French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 31.
Flight AF 447 crashed in the mid-Atlantic en route to Paris during a violent storm.
While it is certain there were computer malfunctions, terrorism has not been ruled out.





Soon after news of the fatal crash broke, agents working for the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), the French equivalent of MI6, were dispatched to Brazil.
It was there that they established that two names on the passenger list are also on highly-classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to the French Republic.
A source working for the French security services told Paris weekly L'Express that the link was "highly significant".
Agents are now trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, and family connections.
There is a possibility the name similarities are simply a "macabre coincidence", the source added, but the revelation is still being "taken very seriously".
France has received numerous threats from Islamic terrorist groups in recent months, especially since French troops were sent to fight in Afghanistan.
Security chiefs have been particularly worried about airborne suicide attacks similar to the ones on the US on September 11, 2001.
 
If this is true than even more so will I be motivated to join the special forces and go f**k them up! Terrorist bastards.
 
Unfortunately it will inspire the radicals for ever more crazy killings on airplanes. If they got this one they will go for more...if it was terrorism you can bet on more.
 
seriously, if it was a terrorist... why over the middle of the ocean? Why not over Rio or Paris? The whole point of a terrorist is to inspire terror. If it happens over the middle of the ocean where no one will know why or if it happened, their "cause" will never be known. Doesn't fulfill their mission. ...just a thought.

p.s. as far as we know, no terrorist organizations have taken credit for it which would happen almost immediately as they want everyone to know it was them... they want the media attention.
 
seriously, if it was a terrorist... why over the middle of the ocean? Why not over Rio or Paris? The whole point of a terrorist is to inspire terror. If it happens over the middle of the ocean where no one will know why or if it happened, their "cause" will never be known. Doesn't fulfill their mission. ...just a thought.
Scare the whales and fish, those Christian infidels
 
FWIW...

There was a terrorist plot a few years ago to bomb successive flights over NATS westbound from the UK. The cell (natural born english muslims, most of whom - if failing memory serves me - were doctors) had planned for at least 7 aircraft to go down in the matter of a few hours, each one at different points overwater so that no-one would know for hours or days what the he!! had happenned. There was a similar plot a few years before that for planes out of the Pacific, Eastbound from I think Singapore or the Phillipines.

Unless this was a test run, then of course they wouldn't announce it... as for the striking terror part, I've got a well-travelled neighbor who is very leary about getting on an Airbi until they can figure this thing out...

God Bless the crew and pax. Be safe out there.
 

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