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Is Obama Covering Up The Truth About Flight 370?
It’s likely that the story of Flight 370 will end tragically. But why are officials rushing to rule out terrorism as the cause?
Floyd Brown / Western Journalism
Late last week, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disintegrated 30,000 feet over the South China Sea.
And as I’m writing, officials are in full denial mode: “There’s no evidence of terrorism.” Yet this denial is strikingly similar to the statements issued after the Benghazi attacks, the terrorist shooting at Fort Hood, and other suspicious and deadly events during Obama’s tenure.
Officials say they aren’t considering terrorism because there’s a “lack of significant chatter.”
But that’s a short-sighted conclusion for a number of reasons.
Consider this possibility: Maybe the Edward Snowden leaks showed terrorist organizations exactly how they could evade NSA monitoring.
Or, consider this even scarier alternative: Flight 370 was shot down by a terrorist missile. It’s not as outlandish as it seems. On Sunday, Aaron Klein, a reporter working out of Jerusalem for the website WND.com, published an eye-opening report detailing the threat of missiles to civilian airliners. Klein wrote of the Obama administration’s failure to control these controversial Man-Portable-Air-Defense-Systems, or MANPADS.
Klein recalled a speech given by former CIA Director David Petraeus, who warned of a “nightmare” scenario in which a missile – acquired by terrorists – is used to shoot down an airliner full of tourists or business travelers.
Petraeus said, “As you know, that was always our worst nightmare – that a civilian airliner would be shot down by one. Which is why we were so concerned when they moved around.”
Sadly, Klein says that the threat of attacks on civilian airliners is growing: “The largest terrorist looting of MANPADS took place immediately after the U.S.-NATO military campaign that helped to end Muammar Gadhafi’s rule in Libya. Gadhafi had hoarded Africa’s largest-known reserve of MANPADS, with his stock said to number between 15,000 and 20,000. Many of the missiles were stolen by militias fighting in Libya, including those backed by the U.S. in their anti-Gadhafi efforts.”
Read more at Western Journalism:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-covering-truth-flight-370/#L0MieCB6xPdL4WMP.99
It’s highly unlikely that an aircraft at 35000 ft altitude was brought down by a MANPAD or other portable SAM. Most are for use against low-flying aircraft and have service ceilings of at most 11000 ft.
You mean impossible. They are for use at close range and low altitude and could not get anywhere near a jetliner at 35,000 feet.