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A Sudanese man used a knife from the in-flight meal to threaten crew members after the plane left Turkish airspace and demanded that the flight be diverted to Jerusalem, the official said.

A fugitive who has been living in Cuba for four decades to avoid prosecution for his role in an airline hijacking surrendered to federal law enforcement authorities in New York on Sunday, ending his distinction of being one of the F.B.I.’s longest-known fugitives. Louis Armando Peña Soltren, 66, was arrested at 1:30 p.m. after debarking his plane from Havana...An F.B.I. spokesman said Mr. Soltren had arranged his return to Kennedy International Airport with the F.B.I. and State Department because he wanted to see his family, including his wife, who lived in either Puerto Rico or Florida.*** Nearly 41 years ago,...

An interesting detail of the recent S-300-for-Iran story keeps popping up on Russian and Finnish forums. Another ship left the base right after the Ladny frigate (which was sent to chase MV Arctic Sea). Two Russian Navy ships passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, the frigate and some transport ship. This is something that Estonian Admiral Kouts mentioned, but it somehow fell through the cracks. Now, that second ship was seen hanging around the Arctic Sea, too. The $1M question: what was it doing there? I understand sending a frigate to intercept an allegedly hijacked freighter, but sending along a...

MEXICO CITY -- A 44-year-old Bolivian drug addict and alcoholic who describes himself as a church minister was the sole person responsible for the brief hijacking Wednesday of a commercial jetliner, a Mexican official said. The suspect -- Josmar Flores Pereira -- told authorities he hijacked the Boeing 737 jet because the date -- September 9, 2009, or 9/9/9, and 666 reversed -- held some significance for him, said Genaro Garcia Luna, the secretary for public safety. "He said that because of that divine reference he wanted to alert Mexico City of an earthquake," Garcia told reporters. Flanked by two...

Airliner hijacked in Mexico, lands safely 737 flown to Mexico City from Cancun; 104 passengers Sept. 9: An AeroMexico plane reportedly carrying 104 passengers was hijacked in Cancun and diverted to Mexico City. MEXICO CITY - An AeroMexico passenger plane was hijacked at the airport in the Mexican resort of Cancun on Wednesday and flown to Mexico City's international airport, where most of the passengers were reported to have been freed. A Telemundo producer said the hijackers apparently were three Bolivians who were asking to speak to President Felipe Calderon. Transport Minister Juan Molinar told Mexican radio the aircraft had...

Report: Russia hijacked its own ship Ynet probe reveals Russian intel used secret agents to arrest the Arctic Sea vessel, thought to have been hijacked by Israel, after getting tip it was violating international accord by carrying 'destabilizing' arms to Syria or Iran Ron Ben-Yishai Published: 09.02.09, 19:03 / Israel News A Ynet investigation revealed Wednesday that the hijacking of the Russian vessel 'Arctic Sea' was ordered by the Russian government. News agencies around the world published reports tying Israel to the hijacking, as the vessel was said to have been carrying arms to the Middle East, and possibly Iran....

Here is a video report from Atlanta where a "nearly-naked man" hijacked a school bus there yesterday. He had been acting strangely in a convenience store just prior to jumping on a school bus through a window when it stopped and taking over the bus. The bus ran off the road into a ditch, and when the man tried to run away he was caught by nearby lawn crew. Two children and the bus driver were injured and treated at a local hospital. . . . (Watch Video)

ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Russia's top general said on Wednesday the military would search the Arctic Sea merchant ship for a possible secret cargo when it returns to Russia from a maritime odyssey that has made headlines around the world.Russia says the Maltese-registered Arctic Sea, officially carrying timber from Finland to Algeria, was hijacked by eight men off the coast of Sweden on July 24. This month Russian warships intercepted the vessel off the coast of Cape Verde."We do not know yet what it is carrying, we only know it is timber. But what else it is actually transporting. It...

The hijackers of a cargo ship that disappeared off the coast of France threatened to blow it up if their ransom demands were not met, Russian news agencies said.Russia has arrested eight people on suspicion of hijacking the Arctic Sea off the Swedish coast and sailing it to the Atlantic Ocean, ending weeks of silence about the fate of a ship which has intrigued European maritime authorities. Limited information from Russian officials has failed to satisfy sceptics who voiced doubts about whether the piracy actually took place or was a convenient cover story to conceal a possible secret cargo of...

can’t say anything about the roots of this story and I don’t plan to dig further… I need to think about my own skin too. Understand that as you will.” —Mikhail Voitenko, editor of the Russian maritime Bulletin Sovfrakht., speaking about the “hijacking” of the Arctic Sea While it might seem like an unusual morphing of the movies Inside Man and The Hunt for Red October, the account of the cargo ship Arctic Sea is far stranger than either fictional account. Based on information developed through our extensive investigation, we can authoritatively state, without hyperbole, that the mysteries surrounding the...

Russia says it tracked hijacked Arctic Sea all along, but questions grow over cargo Tony Halpin in Moscow Russia’s top general hinted today that the ship allegedly hijacked by pirates earlier this month may have been carrying a secret cargo, as it emerged that the country’s Navy tracked the vessel throughout its journey. President Medvedev sent the Russian Navy to find the Arctic Sea after it apparently disappeared while passing through the English Channel en route to Algeria from Finland. However, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow now says that Russian and international agencies had monitored the ship throughout its strange...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian authorities said Wednesday they will run the investigation into the alleged Arctic Sea hijacking but will ask other nations to help solve the mystery of the cargo ship's bizarre voyage. The Maltese-flagged freighter headed to Russia under a navy escort on Wednesday. The Arctic Sea seemed to vanish after sailing from Finland on July 21 with a Russian crew and a load of timber. A Russian warship intercepted the freighter last week in the Atlantic and eight suspected hijackers are jailed in Moscow, facing charges of kidnapping and piracy. Sparse information has led to speculation the...

Here is video of Sen. John McCain today at a Town Hall Meeting in Sun City, Arizona where he made the statement: "I think you are seeing the beginning of a peaceful, and let me emphasize peaceful, revolt in America." He made the statement in response to a question as to why Americans should trust major party candidates when their ability to achieve results has been so poor? McCain was far more conciliatory toward President Obama than most in the crowd. The opposition to Obama and what he is trying to do was clear and obvious among the people. But...

Moscow, Aug 21 (DPA) A Russian newspaper claimed Friday that suspected pirates who boarded the freighter Arctic Sea were actually agents of the Israeli secret service trying to stop it from smuggling arms into Iran. According to Russian media, the Arctic Sea may have been carrying illegal X-55 cruise missiles destined for Iran hidden among its cargo of lumber. Men acting on behalf of the Israeli Mossad secret service commandeered the ship to divert the weapons away from Israel's regional enemy, the daily Novaya Gazeta said. Citing Moscow publicist Yulia Latynina, the daily pointed to the surprise visit of Israeli...

Was Israel's secret service behind the mysterious hijacking of a Russian freighter to foil a secret attempt to ship cruise missiles to Iran? The mystery surrounding the hijacking of a Russian freighter in July has taken a new twist with reports claiming the pirates were acting in league with the Israeli Mossad secret service in order to halt a shipment of modern weapon systems hidden on board and destined for Iran. While Israeli and Russian officials dismissed the reports, accounts published in the Russian media sounded more like a spy thriller than a commercial hijacking.

... mystery surrounding the hijacking of a Russian freighter in July has taken a new twist with reports claiming the pirates were acting in league with the Israeli Mossad secret service in order to halt a shipment of modern weapon systems hidden on board and destined for Iran. ...The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported over the weekend that the vessel Arctic Sea had been carrying x-55 cruise missiles and S300 anti-aircraft rockets hidden in secret compartments among its cargo of timber and sawdust.

When you awoke this morning to the news that a man on a West Indian island had commandeered a plane and was demanding to be flown to Cuba, I know what you were thinking: "OK, Pres. Obama is taking this goodwill thing at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad a tad too far. It was one thing to give Hugo Chavez a smiling, macho-boy handshake. It was understandable that he would sit silent while Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua poured bile on the USA for 50 minutes. We get it about his announcement of opening up to Cuba. But making...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates hijacked an American-owned tugboat with 16 crew in the Gulf of Aden, the head of a Kenyan seafarers' program said Saturday.

Something seems very wrong here. "O" is traveling all over the world, press releases, interviews, photo ops.......but he has said NOTHING about the attack on an American Ship by pirates in the sea. WHAT is going on? This should be a MAJOR issue - confronted by the President of the United States, IMHO! Just curious - what do YOU think?

Here is an updated video report this morning on the hostage situation that has resulted from the hijacking of an American-flagged Cargo Ship yesterday by Somali Pirates. The ship is back under the control of the American crew who fought back and retook the ship. But some of the pirates escaped into a life-boat and took the captain of the ship, Richard Phillips with them as a hostage, demanding ransom for his release. The U.S. Navy is now in the vicinity of the life-boat, but say there is little they can do without putting the life of the hostage at...

Pirates off the coast of Somalia have hijacked a U.S. flagged Cargo Ship with as many as 20 Americans on board. The closest U.S. Naval vessel at the time of the hijacking was reportedly 300 nautical miles away. . . . . . (Watch Video Report)

NAIROBI (AFP) – Somali pirates seized ships from France, Britain, Germany, Taiwan and Yemen, defying world naval powers by prowling further out in the Indian Ocean to target victims. Ransom-hunting pirates equipped with skiffs, guns and grapnels took five ships in 48 hours, the two latest on Monday targeting a British cargo ship and a Taiwanese fishing vessel. At least 17 ships and more than 250 hostages are now in pirate hands. "There were two more hijackings today. There is one Italian-operated British-owned ship and a Taiwanese vessel near the Seychelles," an official involved in regional piracy monitoring told AFP...

WHITTIER, Calif. - The California Highway Patrol says three men hijacked a truck hauling energy-efficient light bulbs and left the driver tied up on the side of the road. CHP Officer Joe Zizi says the hijacking happened early Wednesday in Whittier, about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2009 – Pirates today released the Ukrainian ship Faina, which they had held for ransom along with its 21-member crew and cargo since hijacking the vessel off the coast of Somalia in September. The U.S. military is monitoring the situation, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. The ship's crew was unharmed, according to news reports. “I think that it is always a good outcome when there are not lives that are lost,” Whitman said of the hijacking’s peaceful outcome. Seagoing pirates operating off the coasts of Somalia and Yemen have preyed on commercial shipping, often holding captured...

News Release: October 3, 2008 CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE LEADER NAMED IN ANOTHER C&MA FRAUD AND EXTORTION SCHEME District Superintendent Wayne Spriggs Seizes Reedsville Bank Account and Church Property On the heels of the C&MA Headquarters being sued for stealing $18,000 bank account and $650,000 church property of a Chinese church in Colorado Springs, and more recently a Vietnamese Boat People Church, in Long Beach California, the Eastern Pennsylvania District of the C&MA as now hijacked another church. And just like the national bank crisis is about real estate, this case of greed is about real estate. But unlike the...

In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google’s Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct it to malware serving blogs primarily hosted at Windows Live’s Spaces. According to a recent advisory issued by Webroot : “For the first time, hackers are capitalizing on the top news stories from Google Trends Labs, which lists the day’s most frequently searched topics, which can include news of the...

ALERT - Sudanese plane hijacked: pirates want to go to Paris TRIPOLI - The hijackers who hijacked on Libya a Sudanese plane, with more than 100 people on board, require fuel to go to Paris, said in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday a Libyan airport source. ALERT - The hijackers claimed to belong to the SLA Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur TRIPOLI - The hijackers who hijacked on Libya a Sudanese plane, with more than 100 people on board, belonging to the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLA) Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur who lives in Paris, said on the night from...

A PASSENGER told tonight how a Qantas flight attendant ignored serious stab wounds to his head to repeatedly tackle a 'would-be hijacker' until he could be subdued. Derek Findlay described today's dramatic hijack bid by a man in a suit and armed with wooden stakes, who attacked two flight attendants and tried to crash a Melbourne to Launceston domestic flight. Mr Findlay, 30, was among passengers who wrestled the attacker to the cabin floor after he ran towards the cockpit, lunging at the male purser and female flight attendant. As well as sticks, the man was also brandishing an aerosol...

THE crew of a Spanish fishing boat seized by pirates off Somalia have been freed... The Playa de Bakio trawler has been taken to "safer waters", escorted by a Spanish warship, and the government is making plans to repatriate the 13 Spaniards and 13 Africans, she said. Speaking at a press conference, she did not indicate the circumstances in which the crew were released, or whether a ransom had been paid. Spanish news media said earlier a ransom of 1 million euros...had been demanded, and negotiations were taking place at a London hotel. The 76-metre trawler and its crew were...

Six Somali men involved in capturing a French yacht and holding its 30 crew hostage have said they were part of a maritime militia group with a written code of conduct... The men were captured in the Somali desert by French troops on Friday after holding the yacht and its crew off Somalia for a week and fleeing with part of the ransom, which was recovered. They were flown to France this week to face trial. The yacht's captain told investigators the ransom paid was $2 million (1 million pounds). But the half-dozen men are just part of a larger...

Woman wounds pilots on New Zealand plane Fri Feb 8, 12:27 AM ET A knife-wielding woman tried to hijack a regional domestic flight in New Zealand Friday, stabbing both pilots and threatening to blow up the twin-propeller plane before she was subdued, police said. The wounded pilots were able to land the plane safety in Christchurch, causing chaos at the popular tourist city's airport as police and emergency crews rushed onto the tarmac to arrest the suspect, evacuate the six passengers and search the plane for bombs. The airport was closed for about three hours. Air New Zealand, the national...

The 33-year-old woman allegedly threatened to blow up the 19-seat plane and stabbed two pilots. Police say a Somali woman charged with trying to hijack an Air New Zealand flight this morning wanted the plane taken to Australia. The 33-year-old allegedly threatened to blow up the 19-seat plane and stabbed two pilots in the cockpit - one in the hand and the other in the foot. Police say she claimed two bombs were on the twin-engine Jetstream aircraft, which was travelling from the South Island town of Blenheim, but none have been found. The woman was to appear in court...

Excerpt - AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- George Habash, whose radical PLO faction gained notoriety after the simultaneous hijackings of four Western airliners in 1970 and the seizure of an Air France flight to Entebbe, Uganda, died Saturday in Jordan. He was 81. The former guerrilla leader, a rival of Yasser Arafat, died of a heart attack in Amman, said Leila Khaled, a member of the Palestine National Council and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which Habash founded. Born to a Christian Arab family, Habash opposed Arab-Israeli peace talks. His group was the second-largest...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Minnesota flight instructor who notified his bosses of student Zacarias Moussaoui's suspicious behavior received a $5 million reward Thursday from the State Department, two government officials told CNN. Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted in 2006 of conspiring to kill Americans on September 11, 2001. Clarence "Clancy" Prevost was an instructor at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota, when Moussaoui was a student there. Moussaoui, sometimes called the "20th hijacker," is the only person charged and convicted in connection with the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. ... Prevost, a retired Northwest...

The Republican Party is currently being hi-jacked by a small fraction of it's members due to a dillution of the conservative vote. Rudy is exploiting that factor and it is only by a technicallity that he could steal our nomination. This video is intended to avoid discussing who most of us are supporting and to focus us on the common ground of who we need to - defeat. Here's my thesis on that subject and a response to the over hyped "JFK esque" Mormon speech. Best regards. http://youtube.com/watch?v=911BVno5jms

RCMP investigator says eBay trying to hide scam problem. A Calgary man is one of 1,000 Canadians who have been scammed on eBay through a tactic known as hijacking, and the RCMP says the online auction service is not co-operating with their criminal investigations. Shaqir Duraj, a Calgary bakery owner, won an eBay auction for a car in early October. He thought he was dealing with a reputable seller with a 98 per cent customer satisfaction rating. When Duraj complained to eBay, the company wrote him a letter saying someone had temporarily taken over, or hijacked, the seller's page, and...

Credit: ZombieTons of you are stunned, outraged, and sickened by the new Flight 93 Memorial, the “Crescent of Embrace.� I called the architect responsible for the redesign, Paul Murdoch of Los Angeles, yesterday for comment. He did not return my call, but he did speak with the Johnstown, Pa., Tribune Democrat, as quoted in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Neither Murdoch nor his supporters see any problem with the red crescent wrapped around the crash site near Shanksville, Pa., where 40 innocent people were murdered at the hands of Islamic terrorists: “This is not about any religion per se,� Murdoch said...

Hijackers claiming to have a bomb and to be members of Al-Quaida hijacked a Turkish passenger plane heading from northern Cyprus to Istanbul on Saturday. The hijackers had asked that the plane be diverted to Iran or Syria but the pilots landed the plane at Antalya airport, near Turkey's Mediterranean coast...... Most of the passengers managed to escape from the rear exit of the plane while the hijackers were releasing the women and children from the front exit...... Turkish media quoted the local governor as saying four crew members and two passengers remained on the hijacked plane....

Excerpt - ANKARA, Aug 18 (Reuters) - A Turkish passenger plane heading for Istanbul from northern Cyprus was hijacked on Saturday and forced to land for refuelling in southern Turkey, local media reported. It was not clear how many hijackers were on board, but they said they wanted to fly to Tehran, media said. ~ snip ~

HISTORY - Time line [some] Important dates in radical ISLAM VS WORLD 1263 - 1328 The 'Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism' Who is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism? His name is Ibn Taymiyyah, or Taq ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, and he lived from 1263 to 1328. His name by birth was Ahmad ibn Abdul-Halim ibn Abdas-Salaam. This individual could be considered as the real godfather of fundamentalism. Maududi borrowed extensively from Taymiyyah's writings. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php? id=1194248__________________1347 [The Bahmani sultans & genocide on Indians]The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death....

AP News Alert ROME (AP) -- Authorities say armed attackers have taken over a bus traveling in northern Italy

Two Cuban army deserters have been captured after trying to hijack a passenger plane to flee to the US, according to officials in Havana. A government statement said they killed an army officer as they tried to take control of the airliner. Armed with AK-47 assault rifles, they seized a bus before driving it towards the Boeing 737, when police opened fire, says one source. The two reportedly went AWOL from their army base on Saturday along with another man, who Havana says had since been captured. Cuban officials have held the United States responsible for the attempted hijacking. They...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Fugitive army recruits tried to hijack a plane to the United States and killed a military officer they took hostage in the failed attempt early Thursday, the Interior Ministry said. Two of the escaped recruits were arrested after Army Lt. Col. Victor Ibo Acuna Velazquez was killed in the aborted hijack that began in the pre-dawn hours when they commandeered a bus carrying several passengers to get to a plane on the tarmac, said a ministry statement. "Despite being unarmed, he heroically tried to prevent the commission of the terrorist act," the statement said of the...

Two Arabs held in kidnapping plot http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879207440&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull By ETGAR LEFKOVITS Two Arab residents of Jerusalem were under arrest Thursday for allegedly trying to kidnap and murder haredim in the city, police said. The two suspects were apprehended earlier this month in a joint police-Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) sting operation. A gag order on the case was lifted Thursday afternoon. According to police, the two men, Ayman Salhab and his cousin Haitham Salhab, both in their early 30s, planned to kidnap and murder haredi residents of Jerusalem and use their bodies as bargaining chips to win the release of Palestinian...

Families of IDF Hostages to UK Sailors' Families: There is Hope Arutz Sheva, Israel - Mar 27, 2007 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121980 (IsraelNN.com) In a letter addressed to the families of 15 British navy sailors taken captive by Iran on Friday, the families of kidnapped IDF soldiers ...

The chase started when the suspect got into a car and drove off and the deputy pursued. The suspect crashed into a tree at the 5700 block of Siverly Lane, Curtice said, and then ran on foot. The deputy followed, chasing the suspect through backyards. The suspect doubled backed and drove off in the deputy's vehicle. The suspect crashed the patrol car near the corner of Dakota and Armstrong avenues, Curtice said.

This is your captain. Get ready to jump on the hijacker when we land Confronted by a lone gunman in the cockpit of his airliner, Captain Ahmedou Lemine's thoughts immediately turned to the horror of 9/11. He recalled how the heroic folk on Flight 93 prevented two hijackers crashing their plane into the White House � and determined to enlist the help of his own passengers. Having established that the gunman did not speak French, unlike most of those on board the Air Mauritania flight, he made an announcement in French over the public address system. He told the 71...

Police in the Canary Islands have arrested a man who hijacked an Air Mauritania passenger plane, Spanish officials say. The Boeing 737 plane was seized shortly after take-off from the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott. It landed at a military strip in Las Palmas, where the man was held and the passengers freed, the officials say. The motive of the hijacker is not known. One unconfirmed report said he had demanded to be flown to France. Around 70 passengers and eight crew were on the plane, reports from Spain said. "It has been liberated," the Associated Press news agency quoted foreign...

MAURITANIAN PASSENGER PLANE HIJACKED TO WESTERN SAHARA - MAURITANIAN POLICE

SUDANESE PLANE HIJACKED AT KHARTOUM AIRPORT BY GUNMAN, DIVERTED TO CHAD'S CAPITAL N'DJAMENA - AN OFFICIAL SAYS