Chinese man sentenced for plane hijacking

A Chinese man who hijacked a plane 15 years ago and forced it to fly to Taiwan has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, state media said Friday.

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Drunk passenger fails in attempted hijacking

A drunk man claiming to have a bomb tried to hijack a Russian-bound Turkish Airlines plane on Wednesday but fellow passengers quickly overpowered him, officials said.

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Cuba Honors Officer Slain by Hijackers

A Cuban army officer killed during a failed airplane hijacking was buried with military honors Friday, decorated posthumously with one of the communist regime's top medals as officials blamed Washington for his death.

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Turkish Hijacker Is Seeking Asylum

A Turkish army deserter who hijacked a Turkish airliner to Italy is seeking asylum because he fears persecution in his Muslim homeland after his conversion to Christianity and wanted Pope Benedict XVI's protection, an Italian prosecutor said Wednesday.

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2 Turks Surrender After Hijacking Plane

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.

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Glen Beck desecrates religous holiday for ratings. Asks viewers to fast with him on Yom Kippur. Hath Fox no shame? Are Fox viewers cowardly or undereducated?

This News station has to the worse in history and its cowardly viewers should stand and put in its place. If the viewers allow Glen Beck to hijack a national day of fasting for Jews on September 28th.

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Open letter to Osama Bin Laden

Open letter to Osama Bin Laden

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A Bolivian priest hijacked a Mexican flight from the resort city of Cancun after receiving "divine inspiration", officials said.

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Unraveling a maritime mystery, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that the cargo ship Arctic Sea, which seemed to vanish without a trace off of Portugal last month, prompting fears of piracy in Europe, had been hijacked as it traversed the Baltic Sea.

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Yesterday, for example, the FAA (in conjunction with the White House Military Office) staged a "photo-op" featuring flights by an F-16 Falcon jet fighter and an Air Force One back-up plane over the Statue of Liberty, Lower Manhattan and parts of New Jersey.

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Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists.

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Pirates, the Media, and the Power of Words

The rash of recent hijacking attempts by pirates has elicited a swift and justified response by the U.S. government and military. But as the media reports on these pursuits of protection and justice, we should not forget our humanity.

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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) -- Undeterred by U.S. and French hostage rescues that killed seven bandits, Somali pirates brazenly hijacked three more ships in the Gulf of Aden, the waterway that's become the focal point of the world's fight against piracy.

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It turns out that one of the biggest issues they had was browser compatibility. Yestrumskas told me that the two had working code running on Safari, but that, as he tested it and made a few tweaks, for an unexplained reason the attack just stopped working.

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Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 pm last night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot "search" on their home computers.

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A new sleeper virus that could allow hackers to steal financial and personal information has now spread to more than eight million computers in what industry analysts say is one of the most serious infections they have ever seen.

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Nine crew members of a French ship taken hostage at the weekend off the coast of Nigeria have been freed. The ship's owner - Bourbon - did not say how it had secured the release of the vessel.

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A US cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 people was targeted at the weekend by pirates off the coast of Somalia, maritime officials say.

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Pirates seized a tanker and attacked a UN food ship that escaped, officials said Saturday, the latest in a series of incidents off Somalia which have sparked worldwide concern.

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NATO agreed Thursday to send ships soon to protect vessels off Somalia's coast as bandits holding a Ukrainian ship laden with weapons softened their ransom demands in response to mounting international pressure.

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Pirates in Somalia released 15 Filipino seamen and four other crewmen of a chemical tanker hijacked nearly two months ago, but were still holding 67 other Filipino sailors, officials said Thursday.

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When Somali pirates hijacked the MV Faina, they probably didn't know about its deadly cargo of 33 T-72 tanks, rocket launchers, rifles and heavy weapons allegedly destined for Kenya's military.

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The U.S. military says American warships have tightened their vigil on a Ukrainian vessel seized by Somali pirates last week with its cargo of combat tanks and other weapons.

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More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.

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'It will be rape and the senators cannot say they were not warned.'

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Attacks on fishing boats, cargo ships and yachts have surged, but these modern-day buccaneers may not continue to get their way.

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PARIS (Reuters) - French commandos seized six pirates in Somalia on Friday during a daring helicopter raid launched shortly after the bandits had released the 30-strong crew of a luxury yacht hijacked last week.

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Today's History, Feb. 22

1997: Scientists announce sheep cloning

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CHICAGO — It is considered one of the great unsolved mysteries of American crime: how a seemingly quiet man in his mid-40s hijacked an airliner somewhere between Seattle and Reno in November 1971, then parachuted in his loafers and trench coat, making off with $200,000 in cash.

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Thousands of angry locals have siezed control of Bolivia's busiest airport. The airport had been under military control since President Evo Morales sent in troops claiming that local officials were corrupt and were damaging the airport's reputation.

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