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newsmax: Investigators in Kuala Lumpur are trying to ascertain the identity of a caller who spoke with the pilot not long before the ill-fated plane took off, Britain’s Mail on Sunday reported. The call— two minutes in duration— was placed to Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s mobile phone from a cell phone with a pay-as-you-go SIM card. Authorities traced the card to a shop in Kuala Lumpur. Investigators say that the ID provided for the purchase, as required by law, turned out to be bogus. theblaze Investigators looking into mystery woman who called pilot… The Daily Mail wrote, “The discovery raises fears of a possible link between Captain Zaharie, 53, and terror groups whose members routinely use untraceable SIM cards. Might not be sign of terrorism. But it probably is. It is also reported that out of respect, they waited TWO WEEKS before asking the wife about her husband, which the FBI would never do.
3/23/2014 CNN Flight 370 turned, dropped altitude: Military radar tracking shows that the aircraft changed altitude after making a sharp turn over the South China Sea as it headed toward the Strait of Malacca, a source close to the investigation into the missing flight told CNN. The plane flew as low as 12,000 feet at some point before it disappeared from radar, according to the source. The sharp turn seemed to be intentional, the source said. The official, who is not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that the area the plane flew in after the turn is a heavily trafficked air corridor and that flying at 12,000 feet would have kept the jet well out of the way of that traffic. Analysis: The experts say this fits the theory that something bad happened to the airplane and they were just trying to get to a lower, safer altitude, assuming that there was nothing sinister in cutoff of data, transponder, and loss of communications. Or, this pretty much indicates an intent to evade radar and tracking, which is what you would do if you wanted to steal the aircraft, not just splash it, and that this was probably planned by more than 2 rogue pilots. If people are willing to believe that the US government was complicit in letting 4 airliners run wild, is it possible other people in the Malaysian government and military helped flight 370 fly over land with no one willing to admit they saw anything on radar?
3/21/2014
LIGNET: Why Insiders Think Missing Plane Landed in Pakistan As the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 drags on without a trace of wreckage at sea, the likelihood of foul play looms larger. One country keeps rising to the top of the list of suspects: Pakistan. Ten days after the flight vanished, LIGNET learned that engineers at Boeing, the plane’s manufacturer, believed the missing aircraft was on the ground in Pakistan. For several reasons, including al-Qaeda’s presence there, historical attack patterns, corruption, weakness and terrorist sympathies at the highest levels inside Pakistan, that hunch just might be right.... (pay to see the rest of it)
fox General McInerney said that according to unverified reports, the plane could have been flying in the shadow of Singapore Airlines Flight 68 over India. He said a LIGNET report says that Boeing sources believe the plane is in Pakistan. McInerney said that most of the world’s sensors are in that region, and that between Rolls-Royce, Boeing and the U.S. government, officials know a lot more than has come out. “When the U.S. Navy quits their search, their ship search, they must know something in the Indian Ocean. When the Israeli defense forces, when they increase their defense alert, they must know something,”
geller A source at Boeing that the company believes the plane did land in Pakistan …. and this according to the Langley (CIA) Intelligence Network: “Boeing Source: Missing Plane in Pakistan,” LIGNET ^ | MARCH 17, 2014, 5:30 P.M. The Malaysian government reportedly is investigating the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 avoided radar detection and landed in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border inside Taliban-controlled territory, according to the UK Independent . . . investigators confiscated a homemade flight simulator from the pilot’s home to see if it reveals any useful information . . . the Malaysian foreign minister told reporters that Malaysia asked several Asian countries for assistance in its investigation, including Pakistan . . . Pakistan dismissed the idea that a Boeing 777 could land undetected inside the country but promised to work with the Malaysian government in its search for the missing plane . . . a LIGNET analyst received information from a source at Boeing that the company believes the plane did land in Pakistan . . . Israel is taking the possibility of a terrorist attack seriously by mobilizing air defenses and scrutinizing approaching civilian aircraft, according to the Times of Israel . . . a Boeing 777 requires a lengthy, 7,500-foot runway, and Pakistan has many of them, meaning Flight 370 could conceivably be hidden in a hangar inside the country . . . U.S. surveillance of the area may be able to shed light on the theory through satellite imagery or signals intelligence.
A bit of math isolated the likely splash area to somewhere southwest of Australia where they found some possible airplane bits in satellite photos. Officials think this is the best lead so far over witnesses who say it’s in the South China sea, or in the straits of Malacca, or flew over the Maldives on its way to Somalia or Pakistan.
Back in 2011, CreepingSharia pointed out connections between Anwar Ibrahim and Muslim Brotherhood’s chief radical cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi from Malaysia Watcher:
Qaradawi, whom the American Jewish Committee has called “a radical Muslim Brotherhood Ideologue” with “xenophobic and anti-Semitic views”, has beenlinked to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden through the Bank Al-Taqwa, where he is a principal shareholder and former Sharia advisor . His decades-long leadership role (he has twice been offered a chairmanship and admits that the Brotherhood considers him “their Mufti”) within the Muslim Brotherhood may also indicate a further link to Al Qaeda, as the Brotherhood served as aspringboard for Al Qaeda devotees like Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
From infidel blogger alliance: via Vlad: Missing Malaysia MH370: Search planes grounded by ‘red tape’ 18 March 2014 Last updated at 12:17 GMT The aerial search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight has been hampered by refusal from Indonesia (with the world’s largest muslim populatin) to let planes overfly their territory. There are P-3 Orion maritime patrol planes from the USA, S.Korea and Japan waiting to fly. If that 777 were to somehow land in Indonesia, and Indonesia saw it on radar but did not report it, that might be one reason to not allow overflight, but we don’t know.
From counterjihad blogger / Robert Spencer Slate whitewashes Muslim Brotherhood ties of Malaysian pol “fanatically” supported by pilot of missing plane Here is reality: “Anwar Ibrahim’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood run deep. Ibrahim helped establish the International Institute for Islamic Thought, or IIIT, a Muslim Brotherhood front group in the United States. IIIT has come under fire for their connections with terrorist organizations. In 2002, Anwar Ibrahim’s IIIT was included in a lawsuit by victims […]
3/20/2014 If you take a really long timeline of previous incidents, we can go back to Air India 182 in 1985 when dynamite hidden in a Sanyo stereo receiver blew up a 747 over water with nobody taking credit. Parts from an identical bomb and radio on another plane blew up in a luggage area and was tracked to Sikh separatists based in Vancouver Canada.
1981-2003 Dr. Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia’s prime minister for 22 years
In 1987, a disgruntled former employee shot his way into the cockpit of a Pacific Southwest Airlines BAe-146 and made it crash into a hillside. In 1988, Pan Am 103 was the first American 747 to be brought down by a bomb after Americans largely ignored the deaths of Indians and Canadians in 1985. The parts were traced to Libya, but an ex-Iranian spy backs up the idea that the attack was commissioned by Iran in retaliation for a US Navy ship mistakenly shooting down an Iranian airliner.
In 1993, Anwar Ibrahim became Mahathir’s Deputy Prime Minister after winning the Deputy Presidency of UMNO.
Some people wonder if the 777 could have landed in the water, which is what a 1996 Ethiopian Airlines plane did when it ran out of fuel and crashed off a beach, killing 125 of the 175 on board. Like the stolen passport Iranians who Iran has reliably told us are not known terrorists, they weren’t trying to hurt anybody, they were just seeking a asylum and better life in Australia.
(21st) In the middle of the 97-98 Asian financial crisis, Mahathir claimed there was a Western capitalist conspiracy to keep Malaysia under control, as the currency attack revealed the involvement of billionaire investor, Bilderberg consolidator and hedge-fund manager George Soros, as the Malaysian ringgit lost 15% over a two month period. Mahathir lashed out against Western meddling in the aftermath of the losses his country accrued (21st)
The December 1997 SilkAir flight 185 crash was a classic government cover-up by Indonesia of an obvious pilot suicide. Tsu Way Ming was a Singapore Top Gun aerobatics team fighter jock was already in serious life trouble for massive investment debts, making passengers airsick after maneuvering like a fighter jet and turning off the voice recorder in front of another pilot, and the crash was on the very day his big new life insurance kicked in when either the rudder failed (government theory), or he decided to fly his 737 and passengers like a dive bomber into the ground. He invited his co-pilot to leave the cockpit, pulled circuit breakers to both the voice and video flight recorders (like turning off both the ACARS and transponder on MH370), disengaging auto-throttle and gunning the throttles to full power, and setting the horizontal stabilizer to full down, and flying the plane all the way to the ground at near supersonic speeds from 35,000 ft into the ground which disintegrated the plane and its passengers.
The Indonesian NTSC produced a whitewash which concluded there was no evidence that could explain the accident. Flight International called “an evasive and worthless report” The American NTSB essentially said the NTSC report was pure bull hockey, as there was nothing wrong with the aircraft or its recorders and it could be completely and easily explained by “deliberate pilot actions”. In Los Angeles, a court found the company that made the rudder control system was at fault. This is a clear case of when the government investigation is a cover-up of an obvious rogue actor, and the “speclation” of outsiders get it right. Flight Safety Australia
Anwar Falls From Favor and Arrested: After rising in power starts to challenge corruption and falls out of favor with Mahathir as the Youth wing of UMNO starts to highlight “cronyism and nepotism” Anwar was arrested on 20 September 1998. He was subsequently charged with corruption for allegedly interfering with police investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct made against him. In April 1999, following a trial widely believed to be unfair, Anwar was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.
In 1999 EgyptAir Flight 990, Egyptians also covered up any notion of pilot suicide, and played down the American conclusion that an Egyptian co-pilot flew the plane filled with Egyptian government officials into the water in what some thought looked like a jihad-inspired suicide attack, though US officials thought “Allah” was used to ask for help from God rather than as a battle cry.
Of course there is the 9/11 attacks in which 4 teams of men of mostly Saudi Arabian origin broke into cockpits and flew or tired to fly their planes into targets in New York City and DC. They disconnected their transponders which gave altitude readings, and did not respond to controllers, though in the Malaysia case, there was nothing heard from the pilots or passengers who had access to in-flight telephones in 2001.
(21st) 2003 Malaysia’s prime minister 22 years from 1981 to 2003,, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, mentor for Anwar Ibrahim named Israel as “the enemy allied with most powerful nations,” during a 57-nation Islamic summit. Mahathir had often blamed Israel and the United States for fueling violence in the Arab world. The Malaysian leader further explained his beliefs about Israeli control, while also condemning the violence among Muslims:
“They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy, so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others. “With these they have gained control of the most powerful countries and they this tiny community, have become a world power.”
More interesting was in a flight out of Xinjiang in 2012. Six ethnic Uyghur men screaming about jihad were quickly subdued before they could use a crutch and explosives to break into the cockpit, and two of the attackers died of their injuries in the hospital. But rather than claiming credit, the Uyghur World congress protested that the men were simply upset about their seat assignments. If there was a bomb aboard, usually the idea is to NOT have attackers with bogus passports aboard, and one scenario would be that two Iranians and perhaps an extra Uyghur artist aboard might be able to get into the cockpit.
In November of 2013, after “airport boy” who his dad assured us was “not a terrorist” managed to sneak on board a flight to Las Vegas after hijacking cars and hitting a police car, a group of four Iranians and an Afghan were kicked off a flight into Canada when they were discovered using fake tickets. I’m sure they were just trying to visit their sick mothers or children because they could not afford full fare. Then we have the February Ethiopian airlines flight where the co-pilot locked out the pilot and also either really was or used a cover story of asylum.
ae911truth November 2012 Dr. Tun Mahathir Mohamad, president of the Perdana Global Peace Foundation organized the 9/11 Revisited: Seeking the Truth conference in Kuala Lumpur. He invited several American 9-11 truthers to promote their anti-semitic anti-American Islamic apologist conspiracy theories that there were no Arab hijackers, Bin Laden was not guilty, and the twin towers were brought down by demolition charges planted by either the US government or Israel to justify unjust wars against Muslims. They disagree that conspiracy theories are just a disinformation campaign to deflect blame away from Al Qaeda. Among those invited were Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.CA, Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, James Corbett, Richard Gage of AE911Truth. Experts exposed the false narrative attempting to portray complicity by Muslim terrorist groups in planning the 9/11 attacks.
Mahathir Moamad spoke that he wanted to “seek the truth about the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings in NY on 9/11. The official explanation for the destruction of the twin towers is still about an attack by suicidal Muslim extremists. But even among Americans this explanation is beginning to wear thin and is to be questioned.” In closing, the former Prime Minister declared that Arabs could not have done the 9-11 attacks, citing their inability to possess and control the highly technical expertise and sophisticated planning and execution required.
(21st) Tony Cartalucci observed the Western fallout over the recent elections in Malaysia during 2013:[forces in the US, some associated with the Soros empire were backing opposition party forces led by Anwar Ibrahim]“Despite the US mobilizing the summation of its media power and pouring millions of dollars into the opposition party, including the creation and perpetuation of fake-NGOs such as Bersih and the Merdeka Center, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak sailed to a comfortable victory in this year’s general elections. The cheap veneer has begun peeling away from America’s “democracy promotion” racket, leaving its proxies exposed and frantic, and America’s hegemonic ambitions across Asia in serious question.”
January 2013: Nile Bowie supports Dr. MM, and charges that western “globalists” are backing the opposition party led by Anwar Ibrahim. US Attempting “Regime Change” in Malaysia: Fact or Fiction? Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the former President of Malaysia who defied the banksters and the IMF and saved his country during the Asian financial crisis, supports 9/11 truth .. Dr. Mahathir’s party still rules Malaysia, and certain powerful globalists aren’t happy about that. Unsurprisingly, the banksters are targeting Malaysia for “regime change,” by paying young fools to dress up in yellow, proclaim a “color revolution,” stage demonstrations and riots, and destabilize Malaysia. The banksters’ goal: Push their stooge, Anwar Ibrahim, into power.
March 7, 2014
The day before the flight, the pilot was at the trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. He was known as a moderate for Democracy . He made speeches opposing sanctions against Iran, criticizing Israel, Jews and Americans for influencing policies of the pro-American ruling party, and decrying the “murder of Muslims” in Palestine.
March 8, 2014
12:41 a.m.: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 takes off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia heading for Beijing, China. The plane shows up on radar two minutes after taking off.
1:07 a.m.: The last automated data transmission is sent from the plane. U.S officials told ABC News they believe that sometime after this transmission the data reporting system was shut down.
1:07 – Somebody turned off the ACRAS data transmissions or it cut out by itself. This system sends periodic reports of flight systems to a satellite. It normally can’t be switched off, though someone with access to the circuit breaker box below the flight deck could research which circuit breaker would cut off the power (you can’t find it with just a google search). Since the pilots were in control, it would indicate the pilots were at fault if they turned it off before the bad guys supposedly took over.
1:09 – The Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished nearly two weeks ago was already 12 minutes into its diverted course when the plane’s co-pilot calmly told air traffic controllers that things were “all right,” former FAA spokesman Scott Brenner saidTuesday on “The Kelly File.” fox
1:21 a.m.: The plane’s transponder, which transmits location and altitude, shuts down. Sources told ABC News that U.S. officials are “convinced that there was a manual intervention.” The 9/11 hijackers all turned off the transponder which made it difficult to determine that the airlines were flying at low altitude to fly into buildings.
1:21- Shortly before losing contact, the pilots report “All Right, Good Night” which is slightly odd since nobody was supposed to be signing off on the long flight to Beijing. Sometime after this transmission (why no exact time?) Kuala Lumpur’s air traffic control tells the plane’s pilot they are handing off to air traffic control based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The pilot responds, “All right. Good night.”
1:22 a.m.: MH370 should have come to the navigational way-point called Igari point. Before it reached this point, Vietnamese air traffic control noticed they had lost contact with MH370, according to the Vietnam’s Civil Aviation Authority.
1:30- The plane vanishes from secondary radar as the transponder either fails or is turned off. Only the pilots have the code needed to turn the system off. If the plane exploded or flew into the water, this would be consistent with Chinese reports of parts photographed in the water and a seismic event. But nothing has come of that scenario, as other evidence was that the plane kept flying. The other idea is perhaps there was a power loss and the pilots headed back rather than cross another country without radio contact.
1:30 a.m.: The last moment that the plane was seen by Malaysian radar.
1:38 a.m.: Air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh City informs Kuala Lumpur air traffic control about the signal loss. Ho Chi Minh City asks two other planes to contact MH370. Neither plane is able to raise the pilot of MH370. At least of the planes report getting a “buzz signal” and no voices, then losing the signal
Based on pings to satellites and unconfirmed reports of radar hits, the plane apparently flew between known waypoints on its way to Europe or middle east routes.
2:15 a.m.: A Malaysian military defense radar pick up a plane that is hundreds of miles west of MH370’s last contact point. It’s unclear (what do you mean it’s not completely obvious??) if that is the missing plane. Officials still insist the plane is unidentified, but what other jet could there be? Plus there are reports of people hearing a large plane flying over Malaysia at that time, which would have to be at a low level to be heard. Tapes played back show a big fat 777 sneaking back across the country, but radar crew members on “high alert” act as if they had an order to stand down or were sleeping as they either didn’t see it or didn’t report it so that fighters could be sent up to intercept and escort the plane before it vanished beyond radar range. The government did not review the tape until the next day or admit it for another two days. With only its own radar to go on, it took Malaysia a week to confirm that Flight 370 had entered the strait
10 days later, Thai government releases that they also tracked an unidentified target without a transponder which matched the flight of MH370 from it’s left turn into the Strait of Malacca. At the time it was not deemed a theat to Thailand, and they said nobody specifically asked for the data. washpost
In the hours after contact was lost MH370 “pings” a satellite several times. It’s not clear if those pings include data that could reveal the plane’s location.
6:32 a.m.: A broadcast call was made from Kuala Lumpur’s air traffic control on emergency frequencies asking MH370 to call them.
6:51 a.m.: A broadcast call was made from Ho Chi Minh City’s air traffic control on emergency frequencies asking MH370 to call them.
Analysis of satellite data showed the last signal from the missing plane was at 8:11 a.m. newsmax The last ping was received some 7 hours after losing contact. The plane has an endurance of 15 hours, it had fuel for 7.5 to 8 hours. No additional fuel had been loaded.
4:00 P.M. A fully fueled 777 can stay aloft for 12-15 hours or 8,000 miles, similar to the range of a B-52G turbojet-powered bomber.
If the plane indeed was still flying it would have to come down eventually somehow. Over water, there is very little radar coverage, and if it was at low level, radars can’t see over the horizon beyond 25 miles, and nobody was flying the sort of airborne AWACS radar planes that could spot low flying targets. Approaching at low level was the way US bombers trained to penetrate Soviet air defences after the put up high-level SA-2 missles in the late 1950s. So it either crashed into land or water, or ditched in the water, or landed someplace nobody knows about.
Robert Baer on CNN says that the CIA used to train for the possibility of somebody doing a very sophisticated hijacking that would be done with nobody being able to track it, but he discounts the unlikely event that some terrorist state would have the motive and resources to plan and execute a hijacking operation of this extent, and have inside access to knowledge of waypoints, systems to turn off, and radar coverage holes in Malaysia.
March 12, 2014Iranian lawmaker: U.S. ‘kidnapped’ missing Malaysia Airlines plane Parliamentarian Hossein Naghavi Hosseini suspected the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane was part of a dastardly plot to undermine Iran’s relations between China and Southeast Asia.
March 20, 2014 CNN Two objects spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean over the weekend may be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian authorities said Thursday. The objects were picked up by commercial satellite on Sunday. Search planes were dispatched on Thursday but found nothing. Ships are there or on the way, and aircraft from Australia, New Zealand and the United States will resume the search Friday, officials said.
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NEOCON VIEWS OF MH370 POSSIBLE FATE: MH-370 – “McInerney Theory” – Pakistan ?Posted on March 19, 2014 by sundance
Our working theory is essentially HERE. While it represents a rough outline to explain the Malaysian Government reaction – it’s supported by more recent confirmations including: the passports of the two Iranian Nationals were used the year before to obtain Chinese entry visa’s in June of 2013. In addition, a commercial flight fitting the profile of a Boeing 777 was potentially spotted flying through the Southern Maldives; just south of heavy shipping lanes which one would seek to avoid if flying dark. Regardless of whether the Northern Route (through Western China/Himalayas) or Southern Route (around India – Maldives report) was taken, the destination becomes the real question. Detection, or more aptly the ability to escape detection, is really a no-brainer. No-one who actually has experience in intelligence or military disputes the ability to fly undetected into an autonomous region – “if you know what you are doing”. The U.S. Military does it all the time with surveillance flights and drones. If the theory of Islamists taking the flight is maintained – the supporting state/nation then becomes the larger issue. Iran or Pakistan ? Both are within flight distance, and both have ideological elements within them which would support such an agenda. So lets look at what Retired General McInerney has to say: The report of the flight landing in Pakistan aligns with all other aspects of our initial Treehouse theory: A LIGNET analyst received information from a source at Boeing that the company believes the plane did land in Pakistan . . . Israel is taking the possibility of a terrorist attack seriously by mobilizing air defenses and scrutinizing approaching civilian aircraft, according to the Times of Israel . . . a Boeing 777 requires a lengthy, 7,500-foot runway, and Pakistan has many of them, meaning Flight 370 could conceivably be hidden in a hangar inside the country . . . U.S. surveillance of the area may be able to shed light on the theory through satellite imagery or signals intelligence. (link) Remember, Boeing has satellite data monitoring of it’s engineered componentry it offers as a service. Although Malaysian Airlines did not subscribe to the service – the capability to activate the tracing systems within the componentry still exists without registration and payment for the service. Think of it like owning a GM vehicle equipped with OnStar. OnStar provides a tracking service to tell you, among other things, when your car needs service or maintenance, and can diagnose routine issues (oil, air pressure, engine operation, transmission, fluid levels) remotely. They can even connect your monitoring to notifications toward your chosen mechanic service who will contact you based on the data received by the OnStar service. If you do not subscribe to the service, the capability to “switch on” the service still resides with OnStar at any time. They can activate the tracking and monitoring without you knowing it. Boeing could “activate” the same monitoring of their Rolls Royce engines and componentry at any time – regardless of whether or not Malaysian Airlines subscribed as a customer. Potentially, this is what has taken place. Boeing may have “tuned in” to the MH-370 engine signal broadcast as a means to locate it. Hence they report its location in Pakistan. The removal of U.S. military ships in the ongoing search would not be done if the U.S. held reasonable probability they would find MH-370 at sea. The Israeli military would not be preparing so readily and openly if their intelligence reports were leaning toward the plane as crashed. However, previously Pakistan “political” officials have said flight MH-370 could not have arrived into their airspace without their knowledge. The problem is most of their defense monitoring is aimed toward India, and we (The U.S. Military) have strong first-hand knowledge of how easy it is to enter Pakistan airspace without being discovered. (See OBL Mission and dozens of armed drone flights/incursions) Their claim might sound good, but holds little actual substance. It does however create the problem for embarrassment. That’s not good and becomes a factor within the equation. Pakistan is a VERY divided political/cultural razor wire – caught between the Islamist Taliban and more western friendly, albeit self-serving, Muslim espousals. If the plane was inside Pakistan, the political chess game of how to save the face for the Western friendly politicals (the ones who said it could never reach them) becomes a complicating factor. If the plane is inside Pakistan, and it becomes publicly known, the world will ask “why”? This question represents an optical risk to the Pakistan internal politicos which once again runs counter to their claims of anti-terror. Remember, OBL hid there for years and the same folks claimed they never knew. This plane, identified by us to be, in their territory would magnify those same post-OBL issues to infinite magnitudes. However, Osama Bin Laden the story does also present a possible motive. OBL was killed on May 2nd 2011 !!!! Would the Pakistan Islamist movement be looking to use this Boeing 777 for an event on such an anniversary ? Because of the fractured political ideology, Pakistan, like Iran, would lend itself toward making sense as a destination. Pakistan -as an ideologically fractured state government- would more likely have a rogue element willing to assist in pulling this off without the more Western friendly Pakistani elements even knowing about it. Just like how some of the Pakistani’s knew about OBL hiding out, those same ideologues would not have an issue supporting an anti-Western operation such as this. As Pam Geller outlines – Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney was on “Sean Hannity” tonight to explain how missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could have landed in Pakistan to be used for terrorism. […] McInerney said that most of the world’s sensors are in that region, and that between Rolls-Royce, Boeing and the U.S. government, officials know a lot more than has come out. “When the U.S. Navy quits their search, their ship search, they must know something in the Indian Ocean. When the Israeli defense forces, when they increase their defense alert, they must know something,” McInerney said. If McInerney’s theory is right, the airplane would have landed at 5 a.m. Pakistan time, and it would have still been dark out. (link) |