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New Zealand Hijack Updates

Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 10:42 am PST

JammieWearingFool has lots of updates and information on the attempted hijacking of a small commuter plane in New Zealand, by a Somali woman who was curiously not identified in early reports.

LGF, New Zealand, Hijacking

Possible RoP Hijack Attempt in New Zealand

Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 5:21 pm PST

Woman passenger attacks pilots on New Zealand domestic flight. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A knife-wielding woman stormed the cockpit of a New Zealand domestic flight Friday, stabbed both pilots and threatened to blow up the plane before she was subdued, police said. The Air National flight landed safetly at Christchurch in ...

LGF, New Zealand, Hijacking

Line of the Day

Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 8:43 am PDT

Two men hijacked a plane flying to Istanbul this morning, apparently as a “protest” against the United States. The incident ended without violence, thankfully, but one of the hijackers produced our line of the day. Turkey’s Transport Minister Osman Gunes said one hijacker is Turkish, while the other is believed to ...

LGF, Turkey, Islamism, Radical Islam, Hijacking

Jihad in Italy?

Tue, May 15, 2007 at 8:16 am PDT

The Associated Press includes no information whatsoever about the attackers in their article about a bus hijacking in Italy, except that they were “gunmen:” Gunmen hijack bus in northern Italy. Whenever I see such a deliberately uninformative and obfuscated report, I start suspecting that the media are covering up for Muslim ...

LGF, Italy, Hijacking, Terrorism, North African

Mauritania Passengers Whomp Hijacker

Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:11 am PST

In the post-9/11 world, this is how you deal with airplane hijackers: Mauritania plane passengers beat up hijacker. MADRID (Reuters) - Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain’s Canary Islands on ...

Mauritania, Hijacking, Terrorism, Airlines

Islamic Jihad Threatens to Attack US

Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 6:40 pm PST

The United States is offering a reward for Islamic Jihad kingpin Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad, and the Iranian-backed terror gang is seething: Islamic Jihad threatens to target U.S. over leader. GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group on Tuesday threatened to retaliate against the United States if it tried to ...

Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, Reward, Flight 847, Robert Stethem, Hijacking

US Offers Reward for Hizballah and Islamic Jihad Terrorists

Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 2:58 pm PST

The United States is now offering rewards for an infamous Hizballah member and an Islamic Jihad kingpin: $5 million U.S. reward for Hezbollah, Jihad suspects. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday offered rewards of up to $5 million each for a member of Lebanese Hezbollah and a member of ...

Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, Reward, Flight 847, Robert Stethem, Hijacking

Minneapolis Airport Incident Update

Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 8:34 am PST

The incident we reported last night, in which 6 Muslim men were removed from a plane at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, seems to have been a false alarm—and the Council on American Islamic Relations is right there, seething and complaining of prejudice: 6 Muslim Imams Removed From Plane, Group Was ...

Terrorism, Hijacking, Radical Islam, Security, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Airport

Breaking: Incident at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport

Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 6:59 pm PST

Federal investigators questioning six Middle Eastern men removed from flight at MSP. (Hat tip: Red.) 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal investigators and airport police are questioning six Middle Eastern men who had to be escorted off of a plane Monday afternoon at Minneapolis/St. Paul International. U.S. Airway officials tell ...

Terrorism, Hijacking, Radical Islam, Security, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Airport

Detroit Metro Terror Arrest Update

Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 5:43 pm PST

Ethiopian-born Sisayehiticha Dinssa, arrested at Detroit Metro Airport, is going to stay locked up: Suspicious airline passenger to stay locked up. (Hat tip: Joseph.) This article has new details about what Dinssa had in his possession, including $80,000 in cash, data about US nuclear power plants, suitcase bomb instructions, a commemorative ...

Terrorism, Hijacking, Radical Islam, Security, Detroit Metro

Ethiopian-Born Man Arrested with Nuclear Info at Detroit Metro

Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 8:07 am PST

An Ethiopian-born man was arrested Tuesday at Detroit Metro Airport with information about cyanide and nuclear materials: Man, 34, arrested at airport. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A 34-year-old Dallas man was arrested at Detroit Metro Airport on Tuesday, carrying $78,883 in cash and a laptop computer containing mysterious files about cyanide ...

Terrorism, Hijacking, Radical Islam, Security

Terrorism Rehearsal on Oslo Flight

Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 3:04 pm PDT

News is just coming out that there was a rehearsal for a hijacking aboard a flight from Oslo to Prague last year: Terrorism rehearsal on Oslo flight. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Czech security police (BIS) have reported an attempt to storm the cockpit of a flight from Oslo to Prague. The BIS ...

Terrorism, Hijacking, Radical Islam, Security