As suspicions mount that the downed Asian jet bound for Beijing was felled by a terrorist act, new clues are surfacing that may all but cement the new investigation's findings.
As Interpol scrambled to figure out why the two passengers who used stolen passports were not caught, the disturbing press release from Interpol points to one overwhelming fact: no one even referenced the European Database, where the record of the two passports, both stolen in Thailand from an Italian and an Austrian nationals is well documented and easy to obtain.
The problem is that in the far East, and especially China, where for very long the problem of terrorism has been overlooked as an issue not belonging to them, terrorists have been able to make inroads just in virtue of such indifference.
China and its neighbors, and especially Malaysia, which is becoming deeply radicalized, thanks to a strong presence by Wahabi Islamic teachers and the interference of Saudi Arabia, need to begin operating in the way the rest of the world is. Terrorism is no longer at its door, it has well crossed the threshold.
It is also telling that if this turns out to be a terrorist act, and all evidence points to it, it has begun as an action on Malaysian territory and has made victims of many Chinese nationals.
But let's further analyze what happened. One of the things that is also surfacing now, is that both of the men who travelled with the stolen passports, had bought their tickets together. Two more people on the flight were not even on the manifest.
That particular details is the most disturbing piece of evidence in the disappearance of flight MH370 of Malaysia Asiana airlines.
The Boeing 777 had made no distress call, and no other clue points to malfunction or pilot error. Some unconfirmed reports say that the plane attempted to turn back, but radar data on the ground denies that.
Two large oil slicks were spotted by the Thailand Air Force yesterday not far from where the last ping was detected by radar. A suspicious object was also seen about 80 km off of the Vietnam coast.
A large debris field seems to have been spotted too, according to local news as can be seen in the picture below.
The picture was apparently taken by a passenger on a flight to Kuala Lumpur, as reported by the South China Morning Post. Please note that what seems like a beach at the bottom is actually the lower part of the frame of the airplane window where the picture was taken.
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Source : South China Morning Post/ Daily Record: 3.9.14
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