The Sudan Hijacking
During the 1970s plane hijackings became a somewhat regularly recurrent phenomenon. In a post-9/11 world, however, such instances have become rare to the point of anachronism. Tuesday’s hijacking of a Khartoum-bound plane from the town of Nyala in southern Darfur thus provided a bizarre twist to events in that troubled area. Hijackers attempted to divert the plane to Cairo, but when Egypt refused to allow the plane to land it headed to southern Libya near the Sudanese border. At first the hijackers refused to negotiate with anyone, but finally surrendered after releasing hostages.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
The news reports:
“Kufra airport director Khaled Sasiya spoke to one of the hijackers, who demanded maps to fly to Paris and fuel for the plane, the Jana report said.
Sasiya said the man, who identified himself as Yassin, told him that he and his fellow hijackers were from the Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Nur and that they were refusing to negotiate, according to the news agency’s report”
Why would a Terrorist Hijacker in the employ of a rebel group fightin the government of Sudan believe that he would find safe haven in Paris?
What led him to believe that Paris would be a good place to land his sudanese insurgency paramilitary group-team?
BBC report: “French soldiers of fortune still roam Africa”
“In a similar vein to the co-operation between ECOMOG and Sandline, the security services that LifeGuard Security provided to UN relief operations in and around Freetown have not raised much controversy — despite the fact that both LifeGuard, Sandline and EO personnel are drawn from the same recruitment pool.10 Although not discussed at any great length here, this trend is certain to expand and grow in the years ahead. Some may also question the real difference between Sandline’s support to ECOMOG and the alleged use of French or South African helicopter pilots under contract by ECOMOG.11″
FRENCH PILOTS?
WANTING TO GO TO PARIS?
SEE
pdf) DATA ALMANAC EUROPEAN OIL CARTEL OPERATIONS CASPIAN, SUDAN, IRAQ
http://www.julaybib.com/correlation-studies/2008/8/23/european-oil-cartel-operations-in-areas-of-military-conflict.html