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| Iranian People-Smuggling Link as CIA Says Terror Not Ruled Out in Missing Malaysia Jet |
| 2014-03-12 |
| [An Nahar] Two suspect men who flew on a missing Malaysian airliner appear to have been Iranian undocumented Democrats, officials said Tuesday, lessening fears of terrorism but doing little to unlock the agonizing riddle of what has befallen the plane's 239 passengers and crew. On the fourth day of a multinational search at sea and on land, relatives desperate for news of loved ones aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 said their hopes for a miracle were ebbing away. Authorities have doubled the search radius to 100 nautical miles (equivalent to 185 kilometers) around the point where the Boeing 777 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea early Saturday, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. "We are intensifying our search and rescue, and hoping against hope there is still an opportunity for us to rescue (those on board)," Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told news hounds. The 34-year-old son of Malaysian security guard Subramaniam Gurusamy was on the flight to do business in Beijing for an oil company. "My three-year-old grandson is asking: 'where is Dad?' We tell him father has gone to buy sweets for you," Gurusamy, 60, said as he broke down in tears. "Please bring back my son. I am praying for divine intervention. That is the only hope we have." Malaysia had opened a terror probe, joined by FBI agents from the United States. But the revelation of the identities of two men who boarded the flight using stolen European passports suggested they were young Iranian migrants seeking a new life overseas. Interpol named the pair as Pouri Nour Mohammadi, 18, who was booked to fly on to Germany, and Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29, who was ticketed through to Denmark. Reza's ultimate destination was Sweden, where he intended to apply for political asylum, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. The two traveled to Kuala Lumpur from Doha on their real Iranian passports, and their identification was helped by relatives in Europe who reported them missing, officials said. "It is part of a human-smuggling issue and not a part of a terrorist issue," Interpol chief Ronald Noble told news hounds in La Belle France, adding that the international agency was more and more "certain that these individuals are probably not terrorists." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The investigating authorities have determined that none of the discovered oil slick nor alleged aircraft door came from MH370, + UW pinging hasn't picked up anything else, so the plane is officially considered as "vanished widout a trace" at this point, until further notice. That leaves TERROR/HIJACKING-FOR-RANSOM + "HUMAN SMUGGLING" - this would infer a complex conspiracy where the plane, passengers, cargo + route were extensively studied or reviewed, as the plane would've had to be not only hijacked, but also flown under both radar + satellite noses + landed somewhere widout detection. Are there any Current or Past-Certified Nuke-WMD Specialists, etc. include Cargo on-board that would had made it important for a Terror Group(s) to attempt this endeavor??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-03-12 03:14 |
| #1 "Seeking a new life overseas"....good a cover story as any, better than some. They check any bags when they presented their one-way tickets ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-12 02:25 |