Interesting how the words “Islam” and “Muslim” do not appear anywhere in this article
Hijackers have released 87 passengers from a Boeing 737 seized on Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Darfur region, but are still holding the eight crew members hostage, the Libyan aviation authority said today.
The plane, which had been en route to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, was taken over by suspected Darfur rebels and diverted to a second world war airstrip in Kufra, a remote town in the Libyan Sahara desert.
Sudan’s foreign ministry called the hijacking an “irresponsible terrorist act” and said they wanted the hijackers to be extradited.
The Kufra airport director, Khaled Sasiya, said he spoke to one of the hijackers, who identified himself as Yassin and said they were from the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur. But a spokesman for the movement denied any involvement. Yahia Bolad said the group had “no relation to this act”.
Perhaps they are just wannabe’s, but, yet again, it is disciples of the Religion of Peace hijacking a plane.
Just for reference, depending on the source, the SLM is not a massively extremist Islamist group, but, more a group of brutal fighters, sometimes good, sometimes bad, who are Muslims.
In Afghanistan
An air strike killed 30 Taliban in southeastern Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan and Afghan police killed 18 more militants in the south of the country, officials said on Wednesday.
Good.
