Some Middle Eastern people are very dark. And we are basing this on one man’s description.
If they looked like that soccer star, they definitely have African features, aside from the skin color.
Very strange. This would make it seem possible that AQ is involved. It has lots of spare African jihadis ready to pitch in for other Muslim terrorist groups, and having an “Iranian middleman” buy the one-way tickets to Amsterdam certainly looks suspicious.
Didn’t one of the attempted attacks on a US plane originate in Africa?
My personal theory is that they actually wanted to get to Beijing before blowing up the plane, possibly by crashing it into the airport or some other building. But somehow they detonated too soon, or possibly somebody became suspicious of them and they just decided to blow up the flight even if they couldn’t get to Beijing. A threat to attack the Beijing airport had been relayed by a French source to Singapore authorities last week.