[syndicate] the state of fascism today (example)

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http://pleine-peau.com/arc/persoweb.francenet.fr/~fredmadr/debut.html
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On 8/24/06, Frederic Madre <fmadre at free.fr> wrote:
> yesterday:
>
> In addition, some passengers unfastened their seatbelts while the light
> requiring they be fastened was still illuminated, the official said.
>
> That was enough for U.S. air marshals aboard the DC-10 to break their cover.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/23/schiphol/index.html
>
> today:
>
> Ten Bohra Muslims, out of the 12 held by Dutch security men, have Mumbai
> addresses, one of them is from Bahraich district in UP, while another is an
> Indian, with a Bahrain address.
>
> The oldest among them is 49, while the youngest is 24. The Northwest flight
> from Minneapolis to Mumbai with 149 passengers was escorted back to Schiphol
> by two F-16 fighters on Wednesday.
>
> As soon as the flight landed at Schiphol, the men were handcuffed and taken
> into custody by airport police. According to a US official, the plane turned
> back after crew members and air marshals saw the passengers trying to use
> mobiles and were passing the phones among themselves while the airliner was
> taking off.
>
> He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the
> subject. "It was behaviour that average passengers wouldn't do," the
> official said.
>
> Northwest's Dean Breest told TOI that though the airline had debriefed the
> pilot and the crew, it could not release any detail as it was now a police
> case.
>
> On Thursday, a spokesman for the local prosecutor also refused to go into
> the details. They "got something" that was not allowed on board the flight
> and this matter was "important enough to be investigated", the spokesman
> said.
>
> Meanwhile, as tense family members of the arrested men waited for some news
> about them in Mumbai, Sharma said in New Delhi that the Indian mission in
> Amsterdam has given consular access to them, though he was not sure whether
> or not they all held Indian passports.
>
> Thursday was a day of confusion with Dutch authorities talking about the
> case with great caution. The confusion was confounded with different
> passengers giving different versions of what actually happened aboard
> NW0042.
>
> Some passengers described the men as speaking Urdu, some with beards, and
> some in salwar-kameez , according to a report.
>
> The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper quoted a 31-year-old Dutch businessman as
> saying the suspects were walking up and down the isle after takeoff. "I saw
> the air marshals walking, and then you know something's wrong," it quoted
> him as saying.
>
> Nitin Patel of Boston, who sat behind the men, told the paper, "I don't know
> how close we were, but my gut tells me these people wanted to hijack the
> airplane." De Telegraaf quoted passenger Sarat Menon as quoting the men as
> saying they were returning from a vacation in Tobago.
>
> "It wasn't immediately clear what was going on. There was no panic. A flight
> attendant told us to remain seated and to follow the air marshals' orders,"
> Menon said.
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1924298.cms
>
> Later today:
> Related Stories
> Air scare: All 12 detained Indians freed
>
> forget it,
> f.
>
>
>
>
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