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| Senior Hezbollah Man Reported Killed In Air Algerie Crash |
| 2014-07-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] A senior Hezbollah leader was reported to be among the 118 victims of an Air Algerie flight that plummeted out of the sky last week, killing all passengers on board. The unnamed man, described in Algerian press as a Hezbollah leader posing as a Lebanese businessman, was on the plane along with 33 French army soldiers who also died in the incident, the Algerian daily Echorouk reported on Saturday. Information about the alleged Hezbollah operative came to light after the Lebanese embassy requested information about any of its nationals who may been on flight 5017. The man was reportedly traveling between Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... Speculation over what caused the crash has focused on adverse climatic conditions but French and Algerian authorities have not discounted terrorism either. "We believe that the plane crashed for reasons related to weather, although we cannot rule out any theory for the present time," French Interior Minister Bernard Kaznov said on Friday. The French soldiers, including three high ranking intelligence experts, were serving in Africa and Mali, the report said. French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said Saturday he wants the remains of all passengers on the Air Algerie plane to be brought to La Belle France and the site of the catastrophe marked with a memorial to the 118 who died. UN peacekeepers in Mali found the second black box of the Air Algerie plane at the remote disaster site in the north, and the French president said the data and voice recorders must be analyzed as quickly as possible to determine the cause of the crash early Thursday. Nearly half of the victims — 54 — were French, and Hollande has taken a leading role in the aftermath, stressing the need to determine the cause of the crash. French authorities have also said extreme bad weather was the probable cause but weren't ruling out anything, even terrorism. The plane went down in a restive area of Mali, where Lions of Islam roam. "I don't want to rule out any hypothesis," Hollande said again Saturday. The Air Algerie jet was flying from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, when it went down in the desolate part of Mali near the border with Burkina Faso. The pilot had advised he must change routes due to a storm and then contact with the Niger control tower was lost. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Great security screening going on there |
| Posted by: chris 2014-07-28 17:56 |
| #2 He is with his virgins, alas he has earned a permanent vacation.... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2014-07-28 14:41 |
| #1 Maybe the 'businessman' was transporting some 'gifts' for a colleague or two. Maybe the 'ribbons' came undone. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-07-28 11:04 |