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2005-03-10 Europe

Lufthansa passengers claiming to be Iranian block plane at Brussels airport

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Posted by Elliot Swan 2005-03-10 14:37|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A group of passengers claiming to be Iranian were refusing to leave a Deutsche Lufthansa AG plane after landing at Brussels' Zaventem airport, making demands notably concerning the EU and the Tehran regime, officials and reports said.

Iranian passengers, like Iranian students 26 years ago...

Anyone who believes these are ordinary passengers should contact me. I have a "Nigerian Bank" where you can wire money for a great investment opportunity...

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-10 3:01:05 PM|| 2005-03-10 3:01:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 How would you like to trade for some bridge stock I own?

Posted by Brooklyn 2005-03-10 3:41:11 PM|| 2005-03-10 3:41:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 What is interesting is that they didn't say whether their demands were pro or anti the mullah government.

Posted by buwaya 2005-03-10 3:45:01 PM|| 2005-03-10 3:45:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like a group who wants the EU to stop glad handing with the mullahs. Maybe they want a bloger freed from prison or something. I doubt they would pull this if they wanted to go to Iran.

Posted by Jimbo19 2005-03-10 4:25:41 PM|| 2005-03-10 4:25:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Post on the Corner at NRO: Today 50 Iranians, inspired by the comments of Iranian scholar and righteous activist, Frood Fouladvand (who runs a TV station out of his home in London) gathered in London, boarding a plane to Brussels. In Brussels they refused to get off the plane that is still sitting on the tarmak of the Brussels airport and they are conducting a very quiet and peaceful protest against the heads of the E.U. who refuse to stop doing business with the bloodthirsty regime of the Islamic Republic and the Mullahs in Iran. The protestors have been verbally abused by the Belgian authorities, being accused of hijacking and though the protestors are doing nothing but singing Iranian national anthems of a free Iran and asking to speak to the UK, French and German representatives to the E.U. they are being nonetheless abused by Belgian authorities who are refusing to allow the media on plane.

They are chanting: "We are the messengers of peace. We are against global terrorism. We will remove the malignant terrorist regime of the Mullahs..."

The world media should respect these forms of peaceful and righteous protests and should expose the refusal of governments like those European nations who have actively ignored the pleas and cries of the desperate people of Iran in favor of cheap trade with a terrorist-financing government.

Posted by Steve 2005-03-10 4:43:56 PM|| 2005-03-10 4:43:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Not a smart move doing this on the plane. These folks are in for some serious trouble. Jail kind of trouble. The Belgian authorities will do all they can to make sure any notice these protesters try and bring the world of the EUs double dealing and support of the terrorist state of Iran receives little or no attention. After this is the EU they can do no wrong.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-03-10 5:06:55 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-03-10 5:06:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 People may have sympathy for their cause, but Sock is right. It does not matter what your cause is, but when you start messing with airplanes, everything goes out the window and you are considered a hijacker. I think that they sh*t in their collective messkit.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-10 6:03:16 PM|| 2005-03-10 6:03:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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