Norman Kember on BA156
Mar 25, 2006, 5:46 am
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Norman Kember on BA156
Just noticed - this is sensational news over here in the UK - 'Breaking News' everywhere 
- but BBC News 24 have just shown BA156 from KWI pull onto stand at 1244.
They then showed an arrival monitor - "Landed 12:22".
So....the curse of crossing 27L strikes again!
(PS...anorak on...a lovely aerial shot of a 777 on BBC24 now...)
- but BBC News 24 have just shown BA156 from KWI pull onto stand at 1244.They then showed an arrival monitor - "Landed 12:22".
So....the curse of crossing 27L strikes again!
(PS...anorak on...a lovely aerial shot of a 777 on BBC24 now...)
Mar 25, 2006, 6:02 am
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Hope he enjoyed the flight, but as he seems to be a sanctimonious, pompous, & priggish old ingrate I'm sure he won't say so if he did.
If I was the SAS, I'd have left him there.
If I was the SAS, I'd have left him there.
Mar 25, 2006, 6:13 am
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Originally Posted by fraisse10
Hope he enjoyed the flight, but as he seems to be a sanctimonious, pompous, & priggish old ingrate I'm sure he won't say so if he did.
If I was the SAS, I'd have left him there.
If I was the SAS, I'd have left him there.
The Christian fundamentalist started as an aid worker (
- why would an aid worker be kidnapped?), became a peace activist and ultimately it became clear he was on a crusade all along. Apparently, he was reading out loud from the Bible in front of Baghdad mosques, which is not something to be recommended, I would have thought.His partner fundamentalists have called on US and UK troops to vacate Iraq and neither they nor he have thanked those who liberated him.
What's the number for the SAS? They could speed him on his way back to his crusade.
Mar 25, 2006, 6:37 am
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Originally Posted by Roger
( - why would an aid worker be kidnapped?)
- why would an aid worker be kidnapped?)(This is something I was pondering before applying for an internship in Kabul...)
Mar 25, 2006, 6:41 am
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Originally Posted by fraisse10
Hope he enjoyed the flight, but as he seems to be a sanctimonious, pompous, & priggish old ingrate I'm sure he won't say so if he did.
If I was the SAS, I'd have left him there.
If I was the SAS, I'd have left him there.
Mar 25, 2006, 7:19 am
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Originally Posted by G-BOAC
Quite. I shudder to think how much this whole thing has cost over all these weeks in time, money, 'diplomatic relations', opportunity cost of the armed forces wasting time on it, etc., etc. just for one idiot on some kind of personal crusade.
BTW, 2,000 health workers in the UK lost their jobs this week, including almost 500 at the Royal Free hospital. It seems we can't afford to keep them on. Can't help thinking that the welfare of those workers and their patients is somewhat more important than recovering this prat.
Mar 25, 2006, 7:20 am
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Originally Posted by typical
For being British/Western and thus the source of many news headlines and media attention.
(This is something I was pondering before applying for an internship in Kabul...)
(This is something I was pondering before applying for an internship in Kabul...)
Mar 25, 2006, 7:52 am
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Originally Posted by G-BOAC
Quite. I shudder to think how much this whole thing has cost over all these weeks in time, money, 'diplomatic relations', opportunity cost of the armed forces wasting time on it, etc., etc. just for one idiot on some kind of personal crusade.
"War on Terror"
"Weapons of Mass Destuction"
"Operation Iraqi Freedom"
"Axis of Evil"
"Did Somebody Say McDonalds" [Oh sorry wrong Spin] "
Mar 25, 2006, 10:03 am
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Originally Posted by ian001
Sky have a shot of the BA plane at the gate with a QF 747 behind it.
They also spent a few minutes talking over live pictures of Kember's plane arriving at T4 - except it was apparently an A320. Kember's 777 was still waiting to cross 27L, seen live from a chopper shot on BBC News24.
They then looped a tape shot of Kember's flight landing on 27R - except that one was a 757, very clearly different from the one they'd already seen Kember get off.
They did get him getting into a car after disembarking right. But those were pool pictures played out by the BBC. Not Sky's greatest day, sadly.
(Perhaps I should declare an interest?)