Crashed Air France Flight Linked To Terrorism?

Sky News is reporting that two names from the Air France flight that went down may be on classified documents linked to terrorism. I'm having a hard time believing this is actually significant based on this report. What good is terrorism if no one is claiming responsibility in the name of a cause?

Soon after news of the fatal crash broke, agents working for the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), the French equivalent of MI6, were dispatched to Brazil.

It was there that they established that two names on the passenger list are also on highly-classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to the French Republic.

A source working for the French security services told Paris weekly L'Express that the link was "highly significant".

Agents are now trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, and family connections.

There is a possibility the name similarities are simply a "macabre coincidence", the source added, but the revelation is still being "taken very seriously".

Comments

[lala]

I have to go out for a while but I'm just thinking of Bojinka, Egypt Air, Swissair, PanAm, TWA800, Air India, 911. Did terrorists take credit for all of them? Do they think it's necessary?

[mark l.]

the french would rather blame it on terrorism, than a defective plane. (excuse me, a defective 'French' plane)

their reputation can't take the hit, without massive financial damage.

[Jess]

I think it is good they are at least looking into the possibility. It would be unwise to rule terrorism out immediately, even if unlikely.
Sources say they hope finding a black box will lead them to answers:
http://www.newsy.com/videos/air_france_mystery_continues

[lala]

French pilots are angling not to fly that particular model until the problem is fixed, if it actually has a problem. I avoided Airbus because, at first, due to only have 2 engines it always had to fly within an hour of land when crossing the Atlantic. Also, that crash at an airshow didn't go over too well.

[Jane]

Maybe they were on a dry run - ?

[Philip McDaniel]

"What good is terrorism if no one is claiming responsibility in the name of a cause?"
This may or may not be a terrorist act. Investigation, hopefully, will determine the exact cause of the crash. On the other hand this might have been a terrorist 'test run' and planners are keeping mum. Just a thought.

[Ralph Kramden]

There's also this possible criminal angle -

"The puzzling crash of Air France’s Flight 447 killed two of the world’s “most prominent” illegal arms trade and international drug trafficking foes [...] two key figures in the neverending internecine battle against global arms and drug trafficking perished when the plane abruptly fell out of the sky. Both were particularly active in efforts to stem illegal arms trading in Latin America.

"A 39-year Argentinian man, Pablo Dreyfus, was said to be a major player in an effort by Brazilian authorities to stop flow of arms to drug gangs in Rio. He was a consultant for Small Arms Survey, a Geneva-based thinktank.

"Another consultant for Small Arms Survey also died in the crash, “Ronald Dreyer, a Swiss diplomat and co-ordinator of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence who had worked with UN missions in El Salvador, Mozambique, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Angola,” according to Scotland’s Sunday Herald."

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_55986.shtml