Flight 990; We were on "Muslim Alert". The Islamists were busy prepping the field for Sharia at home. Their military was the most westernized influential group in Turkey.[blockquote]
The reluctance of government officials to say more about the Egyptian officers [33 Egyptian elite military personnel] speaks both to the sensitivity of the Flight 990 investigation and to the intrigue that swirls about Egypt's military dealings with the United States.
http://www.welfarestate.com/flight990/transcript.txthttp://www.welfarestate.com/flight990/1997 - He recited a well-known poem at a public meeting in Siirt in southeastern Turkey.
Here"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers..." and was considered a violation of
Kemalism[/b] [Atatürk' vision for a modern Turkey-by the secular judiciary.]
1998 - He was tried and convicted of inciting religious hatred.
1999 - He was sentenced to ten months imprisonment of which he served four months only.
2003 - He became the prime minister of Turkey on the 14th of March. [/blockquote] Swissair Flight 111 was known as the "U.N. shuttle" ...[blockquote]
the aircraft experienced an unexplained thirteen-minute radio blackout.
Only 72 minutes after takeoff, the MD-11 crashed into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean, breaking into over one million pieces and killing all 229 persons aboard.2 Ultimately, the destruction of the aircraft was the result of a truly unique sequence of events that involved defective wiring aboard the aircraft and adjacent flammable insulation, a faulty entertainment system, the Swissair flightcrew's handling of the emergency (the result of inadequate training and a poorly written emergency manual), and possibly also external electromagnetic interference.
...
Interestingly, U.S. military operations in the Atlantic continue in a mostly unchanged manner, even though there is strong evidence that electromagnetic interference in almost precisely the same area has contributed not only to the crash of Swissair Flight 111, but also to the crashes of TWA Flight 800 and EgyptAir Flight 990.
The plane carried a Saudi prince, a relative of the former shah of Iran and high-profile UN officials. Diamonds and gems that would be worth half a billion dollars today were also never found.
The flight from New York to Geneva crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 2, 1998, killing 229 passengers and crew.
The plane carried a Saudi prince, a relative of the former shah of Iran and high-profile UN officials. Diamonds and gems that would be worth half a billion dollars today were also never found.
...
high levels of magnesium — a key ingredient in an incendiary device — were discovered in the cockpit area.
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Notable victims A number of notable individuals died in this accident, including: [blockquote]Mahmood Diba, the cousin of Empress Farah of Iran
Pierce J. Gerety, Jr., UNHCR Director of Operations for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, who was on a special mission for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to attempt to negotiate a peace accord with Laurent Kabila in an erupting regional war
Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist Klaus Kinder-Geiger
Joseph LaMotta, son of former boxing world champion Jake LaMotta
Jonathan Mann, former head of the WHO's AIDS program, and his wife, AIDS researcher Mary Lou Clements-Mann
Former New York Times executive John Mortimer and his wife Hilda
Saudi royalty Prince Bandar Bin Saud bin Saad Abdul Rahman al-Saud
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) physicist Per Spanne, who had been working at Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1996
Stephanie Shaw, daughter of Geneva-based Scottish entrepreneur, Ian Shaw
Dr. Roger Williams, a top cardiovascular genetics expert and professor of internal medicine at
the University of Utah.[25[/blockquote]
It appears the words 'electromagnetic interference' are a govt euphemism for
stinger missile.