Last night we were sent an email to a story which reported that witnesses saw an explosion on the Ethiopian airline which crashed after taking off from Beirut. Even though at the time the plane went my thoughts immediately turned to al Qaeda's Somali affiliate the al Shabaab, there was little discussion of this being an al Qaeda operation.RTWT.This was, after all, an Ethiopian airliner. Flying out of the Middle East. Two hallmarks of a plausible case for human or mechanical error.
But today DEBKA reports that the plane was in fact taken down by an al Qaeda operation.
YES, I KNOW: DEBKA... SO READ WITH A GRAIN OF SALT...
OUR PREVIOUS POSTS HERE AND HERE.
THE BLACK BOXES WERE RECOVERED AND US NTSB TEAM WAS SENT THERE - SO WE WILL SOON KNOW THE TRUTH...
MY GUESS: THIS WAS ANOTHER TRIAL RUN - BUT A SUCCESSFUL ONE - AND AL QAEDA WILL USE THE TECHNIQUE ON SEVERAL JETS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
STAY TUNED...
consider checking the passenger list of this Ethiopian Airline flight against the list of 20 or so names provided by the Christmas crotch bomber. Perhaps this was a more successful attempt.
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