Posted on 12/12/2009 8:18:03 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Thailand detains plane with weapons cache from N.Korea
Sat Dec 12, 7:06 am ET
BANGKOK (AFP) – Thai authorities have detained five people who landed in Bangkok in an east European cargo plane full of heavy weapons that originated in North Korea, officials told AFP Saturday.
The plane's pilot requested to land at Bangkok's domestic Don Mueang airport Saturday morning, said government spokesman Panitan Wattanayakorn, and on inspecting the aircraft Thai authorities found the cache.
"An eastern European airline asked to land this morning at Don Mueang airport to refuel its tank. When Thai authorities examined the aircraft they found a lot of weapons and detained up to five people," Panitan said.
Lieutenant General Thangai Prasajaksattru, commander of Thailand's Central Investigation Bureau, confirmed that five men from eastern Europe had been detained, but he did not yet know their nationalities.
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How much do you want to bet some choice pieces are going to go missing and end up in some General's office?
AIT they look like Russians or they not Arabs
That one guy look like one of my Cali representative LOL!
OMG it is outsource
What these guys are doing job that North Koreans refuse to do ROFL
I am sure they will be "encouraged" to talk, but even then they may have been lied too about the manifest. At least they can finger the higher ups in Pyongyang who sent them on this mission.
APPEASEMENT - TYPICAL U.N. TYPE REPONSE WE CAN EXPECT UNDER WORLD GOVERNMENT
Wonder if the account was settled in old money?
Wonder if there was no fuel available in north korea
The crew will be released with their bribe money paid by Indian intelligence or the CIA
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