report- hijack attempt failed. Was a Turkish plane.
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thank God, the idiots didn't crash it, the idiots have no sense, who has ever heard of a successful hijacking where they actually achieve what they trying to achieve.
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Haven't read the news yet, but I'm willing to bet it was communists and Kurds behind it - the PKK.
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Was actually a passenger plane with 107 people on board and the attempted hijack was done to protest the Popes visit to Turkey.
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Oh great. Yet another fool trying to protest how non-violent islam is by carrying out an act of violence 
I would have preferred the communist kurds to be behind it. Always nice to blame the Reds.
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maddie, I am jus sick and tires of these ppl. I think they should be made to write the pen is mighteier than the sword a few million times, even if they dont finally get it, atleast it will keep em away from such idiotic adventures
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^
They want to read a letter to the pope. I suggest picking protests that don't lead to major prison time.
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idiots will be idiots though..and would need any excuse to demonstrate that. i am so sick and tired of these folks.
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actually theres been a few successful, heres one
these lot are probs looking at heavy time behined bars. proves they were more upset by the popes hate filled inciteful speech then we were:)
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^ no it proves that they did not have enough restraint to use lawful means to voice their dismay.
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^perhaps, they really dont have many avenues. the muslim press is local and napping, world oppinion is against these men whether hijackers or not. it all ended peacefully too.
what would you suggest as a good means of demonstrating?
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^^ See how easy it was to hijack a plane...
Now imagine blood thirsty terrorists doing the same on 9/11....
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it was rubbish all along. this story was made up by the media! heres the latest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5403976.stm
**A man who hijacked a Turkish airliner flying from Tirana to Istanbul has surrendered after the Boeing 737 landed at Brindisi in southern Italy. **
First reports suggested there were two hijackers, protesting against the Pope, but the one man now in custody is a Turkish army deserter seeking asylum.
Italian police are checking reports that he may have had an accomplice.
All the Turkish Airlines plane’s 107 passengers - including beauty contest entrants - are said to be unhurt.
Greek, then Italian fighters, were scrambled to intercept and escort the airliner after reports of the incident emerged while it was in Greek air space at 1758 (1458 GMT).
Two Italian F-16s reportedly forced the plane to land in Brindisi where the hijacker, named as Hakan Ekinci, surrendered after negotiations with police.
Initial reports suggested that two hijackers had wanted to deliver a message to Pope Benedict, angry at his recent comments in a lecture in Germany which appeared to link Islam and violence.
The pontiff is due to visit Turkey in November.
Army deserter
Hakan Ekinci is a conscientious objector who had run away to Albania during military service in the Turkish army, the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford reports.
He was seeking political asylum there, saying he had converted to Christianity eight years ago and could no longer be forced to serve in a Muslim army.
He charted his efforts to gain asylum in letters to a well-known Turkish pacifist group on the internet.
According to his most recent letter posted last month, he believed his application for asylum had been refused and he was about to be forced to return home.
There is another letter from the same Hakan Ekinci on the Internet - this one an address to Pope Benedict, our correspondent adds.
In it the soldier pleads with the Pope for help with his asylum claim as a Christian.
Again he says he has been forced to join the army against his will and claims he was imprisoned and ill-treated for refusing.
The Turkish foreign ministry confirmed for the BBC that the hijacker, who is 28, was on the run from the army.
Separately, Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said that Mr Ekinci had faced arrest and transfer to the military authorities on arrival in Istanbul.
Mr Guler added that Mr Ekinci may bluffed the airliner’s pilot into believing he had at least one accomplice on the plane,
‘Track-suit man’
Ergun Ozkeseoglu, a passenger who phoned Turkish NTV television from the plane, said the hijacker had waved and apologised to applauding passengers as he left the plane.
He had seen no weapons but had noticed a passenger repeatedly entering the cockpit and “and giving orders to the stewards”.
One Albanian passenger told Albanian TV that nobody had been informed of the hijacking.
Ermir Hoxha, a journalist who was also aboard, described one of the suspected hijackers for his television channel, Albania’s Top-Channel TV. He said he had not seen any weapon.
“We gathered something was amiss when we saw a man wearing track-suit bottoms and a hat go to the cockpit door and pause there, thinking,” he said.
Contestants in an international beauty pageant, Globe International 2006, were among the passengers, according to the Albanian event’s press spokesman. Miss India, Miss Singapore, Miss Malaysia and Miss Philippines were on the flight, the spokesman told the BBC’s Asian Network
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what would you suggest as a good means of demonstrating?
Are you seriuosly advocating the hijacking of a plane as a legitimate means of protest? Maybe that's why 'world opinion is against these men' and their supporters. The hijacking of a plane in and of itself is NOT a peaceful act.
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Now imagine blood thirsty terrorists doing the same on 9/11....
well, killing everyone on board is totally a different matter. yes security may still be too lax
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world opinion has been against muslim men for allot longer then recent plane attacks, just look at the way this story was concucted initially
i bet the following passage of above story brings relief to western minds
He was seeking political asylum there, saying he had converted to Christianity eight years ago and could no longer be forced to serve in a Muslim army
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^ I repeat, what an idiot and what an idiotic way to protest