Drudge has a siren up for an apparent airplane hijacking:
State-run radio says a commercial airliner has been hijacked in Greek airspace…
Turkish Airlines spokesman says hijacked aircraft has landed at an airport in Brindisi, Italy…
Brindisi is near the southeast corner of Italy.
UPDATE: The BBC reports:
[The plane] sent out an SOS twice in Greek airspace, and Athens scrambled four fighters to escort it to Brindisi, a Greek official told Reuters.
The Turkish Airlines plane is carrying at least 107 passengers.
Unconfirmed reports say there are two hijackers and they are protesting about plans for a papal visit to Turkey.
Presumably, they’re upset about the pope’s speech that quoted an 14th-century cleric saying that Islam is an evil, violent religion. And they’re “protesting” this allegation of evil and violence by hijacking a plane. Way to go, idiots! That’ll show ‘em!
I say again: utterly insane.
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Categories: Terrorism & Homeland Security
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October 3rd, 2006 at 1:52:52 pm
Ah, yes. This is how I feel, too. They are not a “violent religion” yet they show that by being violent? Talk about hypocricy!
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:04:52 pm
Fatwa issued against Pope…
“Pakistan’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa has issued a Fatwa asking the Muslim community to kill Pope Benedict for his blasphemous statement about Prophet Mohammad.”
More…
http://www.saag.org/papers20/paper1974.html
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:48:55 pm
Latest from CNN: “Earlier reports on Tuesday that two hijackers were protesting Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to Turkey were apparently incorrect; authorities now say that the single hijacker has requested political asylum.”
He even apparently apologized to the passengers as he was led off the plane…
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:49:34 pm
Sorry, forgot the link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/03/turkey.hijack/index.html
March 13th, 2007 at 5:41:46 pm
You racists should be ashamed of yourselves. Turns out the hijacker
was Christian.
Go figure.