What I can't figure out is how the hijackers were so confident that the Malaysian military would NOT check out this "blip" in their radar? Because the whole thing seems to have been planned out so well, so I would think they would have planned that part out very well, instead of just taking a "chance." A chance that Malaysia would just ignore the blip. A chance that they and Vietnam ATC wouldn't notice the flight was "missing" on radar early on and start the search for the flight much earlier.
Hi, I'm only a whole thread plus posts from this thread behind!
Your post reminds me that at some level, and I really hate to say this, the authorities of Malaysia are in on this and knowlegeable about what happened to the plane. Nothing else makes sense at the moment imo.
We have a small library of books on topics related to SE Asia. Figure the odds that I boxed most of them up within the past year. A title left on the shelf is,
Asia's New Little Dragons (The Dynamic Emergence of Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia), written by Steven Schlossstein (yes, three s's), copyright 1991.
Here's what's written on the jacket of the back cover ~
"Malaysia's bottom line is that it should have done much better. With its political system corrupt to the core, its people suppressed by a government that is moving ever closer to totalitarianism, and its social stability threatened by clearly racist policies, Malaysia is a nation with an inferiority complex."
Here's an interesting paragraph about Anwar Ibrahim (sodomy trial guy) ~ (pg. 256)
"In October 1987 Mahathir's Ministry of Education, headed then by
Islamic fundamentalist Anwar Ibrahim, promoted a hundred
non-Mandarin-trained Chinese teachers as senior assistants in Chinese primary schools throughout Malaysia. The Chinese community took this as a serious affront, which it clearly was, and acted unanimously in opposition. They held a rally to protest the appointments and called for a boycott of classes at affected Chinese schools. ...."
When the foreign press criticized Operation Lalang, Mahathir in turn charged that the foreign media simply censored comments that weren't critical of the ISA arrests. '"There is no free Western press,"' he said at the time. '"The only free press is in Malaysia"'.
Inbetween the words written above, there is a long explanation describing Mahathir's invocation of the Internal Security Act as a result of the people protesting. Mahathir's ISA police arrested 112 key political opponents and detained them without trial. He excluded several UMNO leaders who had contributed to the escalation in tension. The sweep and detention effort was named Operation Lalang.
UMNO alone, and later the New UMNO, is the group that dominates Malaysian politics. In other words, they rule as they please.
Do you trust this government?