Zeus_Hunt Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Two Turks protesting Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Turkey next month hijacked a jet carrying 113 people from Albania to Istanbul on Tuesday, and it landed safely in this southern Italian coastal city, where they surrendered, officials said. The two gave themselves up to police about two hours after the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-400 landed, Italian news agencies reported. Passenger Ergun Ozkeseoglu told Turkish NTV television by telephone from inside the jet that one of the hijackers waved and apologized to passengers as he left the plane. Some of the passengers could be heard applauding in response. Before handing himself over to the Italian police, one hijacker apologised to each and every passenger on board the flight, CBS' Sabina Castelfranco reports. He spoke in English and Albanian. The hijackers, who were unarmed, began releasing passengers from the Boeing 737-400, which was parked on the tarmac in the darkness. A fire truck carrying Brindisi airport's chief of security had pulled up near the jet. Albanian lawmaker Sadri Abazi, who was aboard the plane, told News24 in Tirana in a brief cell phone call during the hijacking that his fellow passengers were shaken but safe. "Of course there is panic around, people are afraid, no information at all, but no one has been injured. They (the hijackers) are both at the pilots' cabin and only one of them came out briefly," Abazi told the TV station. Asked about the hijacking, a Vatican official said he expected no changes in Benedict's plans for the visit. The official, who asked that his name not be used because of the sensitivity of the issue, said an official Vatican announcement that the trip would take place Nov. 28-Dec. 1 would be made soon. "Preparations are going ahead," said another Vatican official, Rev. Federico Lombardi. "It is our hope the trip will be made as planned." In Turkey, Vatican Embassy official Monsignor Georges Marovitch expressed concern at the hijacking. "We're worried; these are not nice things," Marovitch said by telephone. "But if the Turkish state gives a guarantee for his security, then I guess he would come." Benedict angered the Muslim world in a speech in Germany on Sept. 12, when he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor as saying: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Benedict has expressed regret for offending Muslims by his remarks and said they did not reflect his personal views, but he has not offered a complete apology, as some had sought. Turkish Airlines officials had spoken to Capt. Mursel Gokalp and co-pilot Yavuz Yilmaz, who told them the hijackers were not armed and that the passengers were not in any danger, said Ali Genc, a spokesman for the carrier. Istanbul Deputy Gov. Vedat Muftuoglu also said the hijackers stormed the cockpit about 15-20 minutes after takeoff from the Albanian capital of Tirana. "They told the pilots that they wanted to carry out an act to protest the pope and that they wanted the plane diverted to Rome and that they (the pilots) should not resist," he told Turkey's CNN-Turk television. Karlitekin said the hijackers declared that they would surrender "the moment they hijacked the plane," which carried 107 passengers and a crew of six. Most of the passengers were Albanians, Genc said. The Turkish captain issued an alert that his plane was hijacked and he was contacted by Greek air traffic controllers at 10:55 a.m. EDT, 15 miles north of Thessaloniki, Greece, said Dimitris Stavropoulos, spokesman for Greece's Civil Aviation Authority. The captain told the Greek controllers: "I have two undesirable people who want to go to Italy to see the pope and give him a message," according to Stavropoulos. The BBC reports that the plane issued two SOS signals while over Greece. The plane later contacted Italian air traffic controllers and asked to land in Brindisi, and it was escorted to the ground by two Italian military jets, according to Nicoletta Tomiselli, a spokeswoman for the Italian air traffic agency ENAV View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted October 3, 2006 Author Share Posted October 3, 2006 Point well made :P (in the sense they achieved what they wanted without any violence) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 this is the amount of frustration that the muslim world reached, even the peaceful citizens end up doing this kinda stuff, its like the mounting pressure inside of a bomb, and eventually it will obviously blow out.sad story. when Islam errupted in the world, half of the then-known-civilized territory was in muslim hands in less than 50 years.an muslim expansion of some kind is to be expected in the near future, but the west think of them as barbarians, same mistake they did 1300 years ago.wish i will be alive when this will happen again so i can see it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted October 4, 2006 Author Share Posted October 4, 2006 Earlier it was Bush vs IslamNow thanks to our pope its Christianity vs Islam nowIts as if the world cannot live without a big conflict...In this century we had world war 1 then world war 2 then right after that Cold war...then a small period after cold war where we did not have a mojor conflict (a few years 1990s)In late 1990s there was talks of cold war between US and China then in early 2000 we had Osama vs Bush...For some reason US seems to feature in almost all of them... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 for some reason or another, seems conflict has its part on evolution.i guess it speeds up development in some fields, while totally blacking out others.there cannot be peace between christianity&islam, ever.this is not the 1st time this pope is speaking badly of islam.he may say that this are not his beliefs, but if u study a little, while he was only a cardinal he disrespected islam on at least a couple of times, so his beliefs and thoughts on islam are as clear as water. this that they do now, its only damage control, and of course, lying is the best means that they have. nothing new 4 the catholic church...(hope im not offending any1, this is just my personal belief) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted October 4, 2006 Author Share Posted October 4, 2006 Church has had a very checkered past ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grogs Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Lets not forget the Pope is only the head of the catholic faith, not all Christianity. Also, isn't this just because of that quote the Pope made, which was from medieval times? If so then the Pope had previously apologised for this? ...I don't think there is any war or cometition between Islam and Christianity here. Anyway, both religions believe in the same God, it's just the "messiah" on which the three religions (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) disagree at the core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 nothing new 4 the CATHOLIC church... i said...pope didnt apologise, he only mumbled sum things about "these not being his beliefs". clerics of muslim world asked 4 apologies saying they will be enough, never 2 receive such thingthe christian god is trinitary, the muslim god is only 1, never 2 be born , and never 2 give birth.the messiah is jesus(isa al masih) 4 muslims too, muslims wait 4 his return to kill the antichrist.the jews r still waiting 4 their messiah, after some of them picked 1 or another time ago, only 2 find themselves mislead.& there r plenty the 3 monotheisms disagree, and when ppl discuss these things, the disagreements just get stronger&bigger :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted October 5, 2006 Author Share Posted October 5, 2006 Pope is only the head of the catholic faith, not all ChristianityIt does not matter bcoz to non christians catholics .. protestians are all alikeI don't think there is any war or cometition between Islam and Christianity hereI didnt say they are at war.. just a conflict...Few more comments of someone else's belief's and then it might not be a conflict anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 yea, lolzzeus, i was replying 2 grogs :P should've quoted him... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 One point that you guys are missing is the extent of believs and actions of individuals or groups. Me being a bad cristian catholic, as bad or good I am, do not and will not start puting my religios points upon anyone, especialy not to efect inocent airpaine pasengers-1I wander What is ecxact concept of understanding behind making such "peacefull" gestures? do I suppose to care that other pasengers are muslims and supose to throw them of the plane? Man, these isssues are not suppose to be issues and any religion representative doing so- is an ar$hole at very least :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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