Crew members and passengers thwarted the murderous jihadis. Bravo. “China says plane hijack attempt thwarted,” from AFP, June 29:
Six members of China’s Uighur minority tried to hijack a plane flying from a restive city in the far-western Xinjiang region on Friday but crew members and passengers thwarted them, authorities said.
The plane returned safely to the airport in Hotan city — which has seen a spate of violent clashes between mainly Muslim Uighurs and police due to simmering ethnic tensions — and the suspects were detained, authorities said.
“The six hijackers are Uighurs,” Hou Hanmin, a spokeswoman for the government of Xinjiang told AFP.
“For the moment, we don’t know the purpose of the hijack. It’s still under investigation,” she said, adding at least seven crew members and passengers had been injured in the incident….
Uh, maybe jihad? Naaah. That couldn’t be it.