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Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China
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Anonymous
Why would a terrorist book a connection on a plane they are going to blow up? |
Anonymous
Duh--to conceal the fact the plan to blow up the first leg. 
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Anonymous
| Terrorists gain nothing from a terror act on civilians if they don't take credit for the event. |
Anonymous
That makes zero sense. "Oh, this guy looks shifty but hey he booked through to another destination, so he must be OK." If airlines were this stupid, every terrorist in the world would book round trips. |
jsteele
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Intuitively, this is what you would think. However, the original al-Qaida -- distinct from all the regional offshoots -- didn't take credit for attacks. It was years before the group even took responsibility for 9/11. I remember the first time was a secret video of bin Laden in a private meeting. It wasn't even a public announcement. |
Anonymous
| Why only one thread for such a large event? Did not know there was a rule about this. |
Anonymous
| Two people on the plan had stolen passports. I would be it's terror, and went down in the ocean. |
Anonymous
| Plane tickets for passengers with stolen passports reported to have been purchased by a mysterious iranian called Mr. Ali. |
Anonymous
So they don't have to explain why they don't have a visa to China in their stolen passport. |
Anonymous
No more like, the airline looks at passports to confirm that people will be able to stay in the country of destination. The person with the stolen passport wouldn't be able to get a visa for China so he booked himself through to a country that doesn't require a visa for the passport type he had, i.e. one in the European Union. |
Anonymous
Not really a rule but helps avoid repetition. |
Anonymous
And they were bought together - but apparently there's a lot of passport theft in Thailand, where they were stolen - could be drugs, sex trafficking, coincidence - or not. |
Anonymous
...exactly!! Google certainly has the manpower and technology to do it. |
Anonymous
The fact that the tickets continued on from Bejing (one continued to Amsterdam, one to Frankfurt) made it easier for the two people to enter and leave Malaysia. Bejing was only a connection within the flight for them, not a final destination. With Bejing only being a connection, the two did not have to apply for visa's to enter or leave China, because they were not staying in China. Those continuing flights made it easier for them to bypass certain security measures. |
Anonymous
Unless the point was to kill some specific person or group of persons on that plane. |