Attempted hijacking on Munich to Istanbul flight!

I'm watching CNN, and they just reported an attempted hijacking on a flight from Istanbul to Munich. I think they managed to overpower the hijackers and return the flight back to Munich. Not sure I heard correctly. Will report back after I investigate...

Correct that, the flight was going from Munich to Istanbul.

Interesting, Google news has a couple of brief mentions from Reuters, etc. here

wonderful, just wonderful

Looking for a haven for your terrorist activities?

Come to Germany!

See where Israeli Oylimpic athletes were murdered in 1972, stay in the flat where 11-September hijackers planned and plotted the deaths of thousands, see the site of a homemade bomb explosion, and visit the airport where a real hijacking originated from!

Germany: the greatest place since Afghanistan!

Does this mean your lot are gonna invade, DW??

Only with you guys in tow. Or us in tow? Either way, works for me.

Excellent - I read in the news today that they've just about finished rebuilding Dresden (well, the Frauenkirche anyway) - they'll wish they'd never bothered.

The reason why Germany was a haven for Sept 11 hijackers is that since the Second World War they were not permitted to develop their own tough internal security apparatus as we have in MI5 in the UK. Years of counter terrorism agaoinst the IRA and surveillance gives Britain a poor breeding ground for extremists as here in Germany.

That said, southern Germany is a mostly benign place to live, notwithstanding the US bases in the north of Bavaria. Go to London and you will see many more small plaques where IRA bombs exploded in the 70s than anywhere in Munich.

Istanbul is a popular destination this week.BBC news

Story from Sueddeutsche Newspaper

Seems a turkish national said he had marriage problems and decided to say he had a bomb. apparently after landing, he jumped out of the airplane door and is now in the hospital.

i bet they still clapped on landing even if they were sh1tting themselves.

Careful what you wish for, there are a bunch of wackos back home who’d love nothing better than to reprise WW2.

According to the news this morning, what happened was that after they set off, somebody announced that there was a bomb on board. They then turned round and returned to Munich. The guy was arrested. Afterwards it then came out that there never was a bomb, and the reason the guy gave for having said there was, was marital problems!! All slightly less dramatic than it sounded at first.

But dramatic nonetheless! At least you'd think so if you were on the plane...

oh great - it'll be back to scanning shoes again

Goes to show the power that women have over men.

grabs coat before high heels get thrown at my head

Luckily there's hardly any friggin oil interests or Bu$h would invade to try and swing the election, getting cheap gas for suburban mum's SUVs!

get it straight, grtho, if we're taking about the US it's 'mom'.

and it would be technically a suburban SOCCER mom...cause thats what most of those moms in the burbs do with those big SUVs, they have carpools of little girls playing soccer

Uh, I said Afghanistan. Don't think there's much of an oil interest there. Besides, as expected, oil prices have been at record highs since the invasion of Iraq. Mom's SUV has been costing a lot more money as a result of the war.

Afghanistan may not have oil themselves, but appear to be quite conveniently located for a pipeline...

What about Kosovo, or Haiti or Somalia?

They conveniently harbored the guys that killed a coupe thousand people too.

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Is that bloke wearing a hat made of tin foil to protect himself from spy satellites?

It ISN'T just me after all...la la de dooo la la.

So did Germany apparently.

Now I'm just waiting to get 'liberated' by the US. I've got my American flag all ready and I'm looking forward to dancing in the streets when the tanks roll in...

Uh no, Germany wasn't a country that purposefully allowed a terrorist network to operate under it's protection.

Apples and birds. Both spend time in trees right? Must be one in the same!

Damn...and I went to all those 'dancing in the street' lessons and spent all that money on an American flag...for nothing