Malaysia Airlines Missing MH 370 Plane: Eleven terrorist suspects were arrested in Kuala Lumpur and the state of Kedah, Malaysia, last week and questioned about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 according to a British Newspaper.
But the Malaysian government is insisting that the arrests are unrelated to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
The Examiner reported that it would appear that Malaysian authorities have finally gotten around to detaining al Qaeda-linked persons of interest, the cliched "usual suspects", in a case that is long on mystery and short on definitive evidence.
"The possibility that the plane was diverted by militants is still high on the list and international investigators have asked for a comprehensive report on this new terror group," the officer said, according to the Daily Mail.
But report from Boston Globe on May 5 says that Malaysian officials dispute the report from the Daily Mail that quoted an anonymous government official associated with counter-terrorism who claimed that the eleven al Qaeda operatives arrested, although denying involvement in the disappearance of the missing aircraft, have raised suspicions about the possibility of a militant hijacking.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar told The Star on Sunday "That's rubbish! This has nothing to do with the plane."
According to the Examiner, the Daily Mail's story relies heavily upon the continuing belief that Flight MH370 could have been hijacked by terrorists and forced to alter its course. This was fuelled early on by fear of terrorists being aboard the plane, given that two Iranian students studying in Malaysia had boarded with false passports. However, it was later discovered that instead of possible terrorists, the young men had been involved in a smuggling exercise designed to spirit them away from Iran.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 left Kuala Lumpur on a flight going to Beijing, China, on March 8. It disappeared from land-based radar about halfway across the South China Sea. However, subsequent radar signals tracked by the Malaysian military indicate that the plane had altered course and had turned around.
Fox News reported that up to date, there is no confirmed debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
