Yesterday contributor Kairn wrote this outline which holds mind-blowing ramifications if an intercontinental airliner was equipped with a nuclear device.   Obviously, things are unknown and this is just a hypothetical outline of what could happen if a rogue Islamic state, like Iran, were to assist a jihadist group to repurpose MH-370 or any intercontinental long range airliner.

But if you actually sit and think about “what if” – – – – What if a nuclear weapon was aboard a flight-based mobile platform.  It’s in the air, you find out. Good grief… how would the world respond ?    

The Kairn Hypothetical –  This plane could be transformed into a flying “Hot Potato”.  Once these evil bastards are done with their ground work, and after this plane is back up in the air, and has cleared Iranian airspace, the responsible group could announce to the whole world that the plane is in the air and that it is now a seriously deadly weapon.

I’m sure they have an exact target they will be directly flying to. But since the plane has been made in to a “Hot Potato” they will be just as happy to have the nuclear blast happen anywhere outside of Iranian airspace.

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The media are clueless, apparently so are Malaysian authorities, so here’s my take:

Malaysian flight 370 was taken by team aligned with Islamist ideology.
The plane was taken for use in a future event.
The Malaysian authorities are: a.) embarrassed by their own security ineptitude, b.) desperate to avoid the appearance of that ineptitude, and c.) unwilling to admit their nation is not compromised entirely of the secular melting pot they espouse to the outside world.   Indeed Malaysia has been yet another nation with internal Islamist conflict despite their diligent efforts to obfuscate in that regard.  (more…)

(UK Independent) The Libyan former prime minister Ali Zeidan fled last week after parliament voted him out of office.
A North Korean-flagged oil tanker, the Morning Glory, illegally picked up a cargo of crude from rebels in the east of the country and sailed safely away, despite a government minister’s threat that the vessel would be “turned into a pile of metal” if it left port: the Libyan navy blamed rough weather for its failure to stop the ship. Militias based in Misrata, western Libya, notorious for their violence and independence, have launched an offensive against the eastern rebels in what could be the opening shots in a civil war between western and eastern Libya.
Without a central government with any real power, Libya is falling apart. And this is happening almost three years after 19 March 2011 when the French air force stopped Mu’ammer Gaddafi’s counter-offensive to crush the uprising in Benghazi. Months later, his burnt-out tanks still lay by the road to the city. (more…)

The pilot moved his wife and 3 kids the day before the plane goes missing and we are only just hearing about this NOW ?   Good grief.. 

(Telegraph) […]  Evidence of a plot by Malaysian Islamists to hijack a passenger jet in a 9/11-style attack is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Flight MH370.
An al-Qaeda supergrass (informer) told a court last week that four to five Malaysian men had been planning to take control of a plane, using a bomb hidden in a shoe to blow open the cockpit door.
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A reliable outside Tree House military source says “watch the Maldives“... 

• Police investigate data from home flight  simulator of captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53
• Investigators speak of his ‘obsessive’  support for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim
• Police officers fear  Ibrahim being jailed could have left Shah profoundly upset

(Via UK Daily Mail ) Police are investigating the possibility that  the pilot of missing Flight MH370 hijacked his own aircraft in a bizarre  political protest.
The Mail on Sunday has learned that Captain  Zaharie Ahmad Shah was an ‘obsessive’ supporter of Malaysia’s opposition leader,  Anwar Ibrahim. And hours before the doomed flight left Kuala Lumpur it is  understood 53-year-old Shah attended a controversial trial in which Ibrahim was  jailed for five years.
Campaigners say the politician, the key  challenger to Malaysia’s ruling party, was the victim of a long-running smear  campaign and had faced trumped-up charges. (more…)

INVESTIGATORS NOW BELIEVE THE MISSING BOEING 777 FLEW FOR 8 HOURS!
 (Via New York Post )  Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that authorities now know the  transponder on the jet was intentionally disabled, and the plane turned back  from its flight to Beijing and flew across Malaysia. Najib said authorities are  now trying to trace the plane across two possible ‘corridors’ — a northern  corridor from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern  Thailand, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia’s leader said Saturday the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight  370 was the result of “deliberate action.”
Earlier, a Malaysian official said it was “conclusive” the plane was  hijacked. But Prime Minister Najib Razak said investigators are still looking at  all possibilities.
Najib said authorities now know the missing Malaysia airliner’s transponder  was intentionally disabled, and it turned back from its flight to Beijing and  flew across Malaysia. (more…)

Previous reports outlined that immediately after leaving Malaysian airspace and air traffic controllers two separate communications tools were shut down.   The capability to transmit radio messaging was shut down and then, twenty minutes later, both Transponders -the systems which identify aircraft location/status-  were manually turned off.   Now this:

REUTERS – Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, heightening suspicions of foul play among investigators, sources told Reuters on Friday.

Analysis of the Malaysia data suggests the plane, with 239 people on board, diverted from its intended northeast route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and flew west instead, using airline flight corridors normally employed for routes to the Middle East and Europe, said sources familiar with investigations into the Boeing 777′s disappearance. (more…)

Given recent reports and media releases a growing contingent of people are beginning to wonder if this is a “tail wagging dog story”.     A constructed event diverting all international attention away from what is taking place with Russia, Ukraine – and to a lesser degree, Venuzela…..

Malaysian Authorities Do Not Find Missing Plane Where Chinese Satellite Images Showed Possible Debris.

Officials suspect that the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent back to Rolls Royce – the manufacturers of the Boeing 777′s engines. US counter-terrorism teams are now pursuing the astonishing possibility that the plane and its 239 passengers was diverted to an undisclosed location ‘with the intention of using it later for another purpose’.  (link)

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WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE ?   Events have taken a rather incredible turn in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Officials now have changed the entire search area after they reveal the Boeing 777 took an intentional 90° left turn, turned off both tracking transponders, and flew for at least 40 minutes in a totally divergent direction toward Indonesia.

In addition the cell phones of the passengers aboard the flight are still reported to be in working and/or operable condition. (more…)

The tickets were purchased by an Iranian middle man.  Apparently, the men were trying to flee Iran and illegally enter/immigrate to Europe.

(Via The Telegraph)  The two men travelling on stolen passports on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that mysteriously disappeared on Saturday have been identified as Iranian nationals.
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A BBC Persian report quotes an Iranian friend of one of the men, who said he hosted the pair in Kuala Lumpur after they arrived from Tehran in the days preceding their flight to Beijing.
The friend, who knew one of the men from his school days in Iran, said the men had bought the fake passports because they wanted to migrate to Europe.  The pair were travelling on passports belonging to Christian Kozel, an 30-year-old Austrian, and Luigi Maraldi, a 37-year-old Italian. (more…)