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Statement from Gerry Conlon on political decision to intern Craigavon Two for life.

“Just heard that the government judges have upheld the convictions of the Craigavon Two.It is an appalling decision in light of the new evidence and witnesses that were called on behalf of Brendan and John Paul.



Anyone who attended the appeal hearing was struck by the compelling new evidence and the forcefulness of the new witnesses.What we have seen today is nothing short of disgraceful and a complete whitewash by the judiciary in order to protect corrupt and dishonest elements within the police.

The case of the Craigavon Two will not fade away as is hoped by the establishment but it will continue until justice is done and seen to be done.Those politicians who claim to represent and speak for nationalist,republicans and the working class should be outraged by this judgement,they now have an Opportunity to voice their concern and outrage at this blatant injustice.”

Gerry Conlon just before he died

Interview with Ex-POW Packy Carty on the illegal detention of the Craigavon Two

MAY 26, 2014

by 4struggle

By JULIAN ICHIM

Give us a little background about yourself and your role in the Craigavon Two Campaign.

I’m Packy Carty, a former Irish Republican Prisoner. I was held for nine months in Maghaberry interned by remand; the state released me never once showing a shred of evidence to back up their claims. During my time in Maghaberry I became friends with Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton now better known as the Craigavon 2. I had followed their case closely and became intimately aware of the case against them first hand while incarcerated with them. It seemed there was nothing linking either men to the charges they were facing and all the POWs expected the case to be thrown out at trial. Unfortunately they were both sentenced to life by a non jury diplock court.



Who are the Craigavon Two and why are they in jail?

Brendan and John Paul are two Irish Republicans from Craigavon in County Armagh, John Paul Wootton has a love of Irish music and enjoys reading books on socialism, and has taken to studying economics while in jail. Brendan McConville is a fluent Irish speaker who teaches the native language to other prisoners, he has learned the guitar and enjoys making handy crafts. He was once elected as a councillor for the Craigavon area; soft spoken he enjoys debating and reading. In 2009 the CIRA killed a member of the PSNI in a sniper attack in Craigavon. In the aftermath both Brendan and John Paul where taken from their homes interrogated for 16 days, charged with murder and remanded to Maghaberry Jail.



Tell us a little bit about their trial and evidence used against them.

The trial took place in a highly charged atmosphere where the politicians and media were demanding retribution. At the same time prominent Irish Republican Colin Duffy was being tried for the IRA killing of two British Soldiers in Antrim and the case against him was also sinister. The case against the Craigavon 2 centred around four strands of so-called evidence: the brown jacket DNA, the brown jacket residue, Witness M and a British Army MI5 tracking device. When Brendan and John Paul where taken for interrogation by the PSNI, they seized Wootton’s car, and in the car they found a brown jacket with a number of DNA profiles, one of which belonged to Brendan McConville; also on the jacket was a firearms type residue. It was proved beyond doubt that the residue did not come from an AK 47, which was the weapon used in the shooting. The amount of DNA on the brown jacket could have been innocently placed by a sneeze or a slight touch. Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton were friends and Brendan had been in the car before. Yet the crown prosecution were trying to say that the coat belonged to McConville and was used in the shooting, even though the forensics disproved this theory. Eleven months after the shooting and after Brendan and John Paul had been through the newspapers and media, a man known only as witness M phoned the PSNI in the middle of the night while drunk and said he could identify those involved in the shooting. Despite being a vulnerable person this man became the key part of the prosecution case. He said he had seen Brendan near the scene if the shooting that night; it later transpired in court that his eyewitness testimony was clinically impossible, as he was severely short sighted and lied openly in court about his eyesight. It emerged that on the night of the shooting the British Army, most probably at the behest of MI5, were tracking Wootton’s car using a covert device. When the device was examined after Wootton’s car was seized, half of the data was purposely deleted, yet despite this destruction of evidence the device was accepted as evidence in the court. The remainder of the data said that 15 minutes following the shooting, Wootton’s car left a nearby housing estate. The state claimed that he was a getaway driver for the gunmen, but all this showed was 15 minutes after the shooting John Paul was casually driving through the area where he lived. Despite these loose and in no way incriminating strands of so-called evidence, the single judge sitting in a non jury court found both men guilty of the killing and sentenced them to life. It was then member of both the men’s families and friends began writing to people for help. Everyone including senior lawyers who had followed the case believed it had been a serious miscarriage of justice. Meanwhile the media vilified both men as evil killers. The Justice For the Craigavon 2 group was formed and attracted the support of high-profile lawyers and justice campaigners most notably the most iconic miscarriage of justice victim Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four (see the Daniel Day Lewis movie In the Name of the Father.) The group began lobbying and raising awareness through local media Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.



What was discovered during the appeal?

It was announced that the appeal into the conviction would be held that April, so the group secured the promise from a number of human rights groups and from prominent individuals that they would attend as independent observers. The first day of the appeal in April opened to shocking revelations: a new defense witness who could discredit witness M’s account was arrested by the PSNI prior to the appeal starting in an effort to pressure the witness into retracting his evidence. It was openly called sabotage by the defense council, and the court suspended the appeal for 6 months to investigate the claims. During the summer at a human rights convention, lawyers who represented the Craigavon 2 said they feared arrest and feared for their colleagues’ lives due to the case. The appeal started again in October and ran for two weeks. It was a white wash for the prosecution start to finish; headlines from the appeal included no evidence to link the men to the killing as the full extent of the corrupt conspiracy was aired to a court that included human rights activists and Irish TDs as observers. To everyone there including myself, it was just unbelievable how this concoction was being used to keep two men interned for life. The support throughout the appeal was amazing: slogans on high rise flats in Belfast and a massive banner on the Black Mountain was seen by tens of thousands The last day of the appeal, a senior PSNI member came across as abusive and intimidating while highly unbelievable as he tried to say the new defense witness had been intimidated into making his statements by a lawyer and an IRA gun man. It was outlandish stuff. The three appeal court judges have reserved their judgment on the appeal and 6 months since it ended, there is still no sign of a decision in the case; it could take up to a year.



What can the international community do to support the Craigavon 2?The Justice For the Craigavon 2 group welcomes all acts of solidarity. All we ask is you send us the pics of your acts so we can publicize them. We would also encourage people to write to Brendan and John Paul in Maghaberry Jail and help raise their morale. View all the info about the men and their plight atjusticeforthecraigavontwo.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @craigavon2 #JFTC2 www.facebook.com/JFTC2.

ORANGE ORDER WILLIE BANNED IN NEWRY INTERNMENT PROTEST TODAY

Orange Order Riding the Goat

The vulgar practice of "riding the goat" still constitutes part of many Orange Order ceremonies of initiation in Orange Lodges, in British Occupied Ireland, that has its origin in the superstitions of English antiquity.

The Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, depicted their mystical god Pan with horns, hoofs and shaggy hide calling him "goat-footed." This demonology was modified by early Christians, with Pan giving way to Satan, so in the common mind, the devil was depicted as a male goat, best-known for his horns, beard and the cloven hoofs.

Then came the Orangemen and the Orange Order with their belief in orgies, where the devil appeared as and Orangeman in the lodge, wearing a sash ,riding a goat, before he proceeded ride all remaining humans and also engaged in further bestiality with any remaining animals in the lodge. 

These orgies of Orangemen, witches and animals were vulgar, unhygenic, blasphemous ceremonies, that also practiced initiation ceremonies on young virgins, both male and female, into their Satanic rites, with other vulgar, illiterate type Orange Order mysteries, that actually included human blood sacrifice.

A lot of it started in England, being subsequently brought to Ireland to subdue and brainwash the natives, where the Orange Order became accustomed to the practice it in their Orange Lodges "to raise the devil." There are also considerable secrecy rituals which leave the initiate in no doubt, under pain of death about keeping all thee matter secret. 

To this day censorship is practiced in Britain, British Occupied Ireland and the so called Free State from this basis. This goes all the way up to the BBC world service, broadcasting disinformation, copper fastened by the British Official Secrets Act which will destroy any truth teller. The current pedophilia pandemic in Britain, exported to all its former colonies, is best exposed in the Jimmy Savile/BBC scandal, along with the Kincora Boys Home, Dunfermline, Jersey, etc. etc.. It goes on and on and its core is the heart of the Former British Empire in the City of London.

So today we still have the abominable practice of "riding of the goat," which is still widely practiced in British Occupied Ireland. It is also practiced by the freemasons worldwide, that includes  groups like the notorious Skull & Bones group, believed responsible for 9/11, disappearance of MH370, assassination of JFK and of course British War Crimes in Occupied Ireland, such as the Belfast Butchers. Authentic Irish Republicans demand that these practices are banned and the Orange Order disbanded.

DISBAND THE EVIL ORANGE ORDER NOW !

Groucho Marx once said he'd never want to join any club that would accept him as a member. For my part, I'd never want to be part of anything sectarian, and unfortunately that's what Orangeism has become. It's time the Order either disbanded, it's been infested by sectarianism - Ulsterman




The Orange Order is an abomination and needs to disband IMHO - Anonymous



" never want to be part of anything sectarian, and unfortunately that's what Orangeism has become." Real Prod




"The Orange Order order has not became sectarian overnight or over recent decades here...they have always been, whether prohibting marriage to a Catholic or whether the fact that a surge in membeship and OO activity in the 18th century 'just happens' to correlate with the granting of a Catholic seminary in Maynooth in 1829 or with the rather late granting of Catholic emancipation...there are loads of Historical precedents one could cherrypick, from riotous behaviour in New york and Austrialia in the 18th century to riotous behaviour now. Just because if in your pa's day there was less riots doesnt make it unsectarian - Anon



An ideological difficulty in trying to define Orangeism, as with Fascism,ideologically its not its as structured as a piece of crap(peanuts included)! - Atheist



Please don't call the Orange Order christian, its not! it was founded by some free masons, which is a non-christian religion. Also orangeism is sectarian and is used by London to divide and conquer the Irish in tribalism blasphemous biblical christianity - Scot

Most Protestant people in Northern Ireland and many parts of Scotland have heard the saying "riding the goat" in regard to one joining the Order Order. But what does this mean? Those who have went through Orangeism's 3rd level the Royal Arch Purple will be familar with what "riding the goat" really signifies.

Before the blindfolded Royal Arch Purple candidate experiences "riding the goat," he is led over to within four or five feet of the front of a purpose-built ladder, symbolising 'Jacob's ladder'.We can see therefore, as the Arch Purple candidate ascends this mysterious ladder, he is taking a blasphemous, symbolic, spiritual journey.The Bible warns, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

William J Schnoebelen states in 'Beyond The Light' (p. 215), "he [the Mason] is spiritually connected to an organisation whose rites can effortlessly slide into witchcraft and devil worship and fit beautifully! If Freemasonry is so godly, how can it possibly be interchanged by both witches and satanists so freely?" - 
FormerOrangeman

SEAN McKENNA 42 NEWRY OLDEST OF TORTURED HOODED MEN

Sean McKenna

At 42, Sean McKenna from Newry was the oldest of the Hooded Men.  On 9 August 1971, he was arrested along with his son, Sean, at his home and taken to the Ulster Defence Regiment Center in Newry, where he was searched and photographed before being transported first to Ashgrove School and then to Ballykinler Weekend Training Centre in Co. Down.  McKenna reported being beaten, kicked and repeatedly hit in the head during his transfer.  He was cursed at and called a Fenian bastard by soldiers along the way.  Upon reaching Ballykinler, McKenna was grabbed by a soldier who ran him at great speed head-first into a concrete post, while other soldiers watching laughed.

The detainees at Ballykinler were treated far worse than those at the other camps.  The men were put into huts where they were forced to sit with their feet against the wall and hands behind their heads, looking up at the ceiling before being taken for a medical exam.  After the exam, they were given an egg sandwich and some tea, then returned to the huts and left alone for several hours.  Soldiers forced them to exercise continuously through the night; one man suffered a heart attack. The exercises were repeated the following day as men were removed from the hut until only four remained: Patrick McNally, Brian Turley, Gerry McKerr and Sean McKenna. 

Eventually, the four were given mattresses and blankets, but were required to use them as part of a game of leapfrog throughout the night.  At other times, they were forced to run between two huts and then urinate in a hole in the ground while soldiers and police watched, laughing.  Early on the morning of 11 August, McKenna and the others were hooded and handcuffed, bundled into a truck where they were kicked and beaten, and brought to a helicopter.  After a flight of 30-60 minutes, they were pulled out of the helicopter, roughed up and put into another vehicle, which brought them to RAF Ballykelly in Co. Derry, where they were held for six days. 

According to his statement, McKenna was forced to stand, spread-eagled against a wall, for extended periods, while being beaten about his legs, hands and buttocks.  His hands swelled and went numb.  He remembered being subjected to a deafening, continuous noise, similar to hissing from a steam pipe, and lost all sense of time. He remained hooded for the duration of his time at Ballykelly, and was given just a slice of bread and a mug of water daily.  McKenna was unable to answer any questions when interrogated; he was not even able to recall his own name, or those of his children.  He admitted to being a member of Sinn Fein but denied any IRA connections. During this time, McKenna prayed for courage.  He wrote, “I don’t think I will be the same again.”

Following their ordeal at Ballykelly, all the men were returned to Crumlin Road Gaol, where McKenna was so weak, he could not care for himself.  A member of the Special Branch had to wash and shave him, and he remained unable to read or focus. He continued to have crying spells and anxiety attacks.  McKenna had begun his detention with a head of dark hair; by the time he arrived at Crumlin Road it had gone completely white.  His cellmate, Jim Auld, told author John Conroy: “He looked as if he was somebody mad. . . . He had no control over his temper. . . . He was continually weeping. . . . At night in the cell he would continually talk about what happened and end up crying.  He hadn’t any control over it.”

At Long Kesh, KcKenna continued to deteriorate.  His hallucinations were unrelenting; he thought the television was sending him secret messages.  He had severe headaches and began experiencing seizures.  In March 1972, he was transferred to the prison hospital, where he experienced acute anxiety, difficulty formulating words, severe headaches, nightmares, and crying jags.  He was released from prison in March 1973 and entered a psychiatric hospital.  During an interview with Dr. Robert Daly, an expert on the psychiatric impact of sensory deprivation, McKenna reported “a feeling of impending fatal illness, such as a brain tumor or heart attack.”  On 5 June 1975, Sean McKenna died after suffering a heart attack; he was just 45.

Ruari O’Bradaigh delivered McKenna’s funeral oration: “Before 1971, Sean McKenna was a strong, healthy man, but after suffering at the hands of the enemy, the great tortures to which he was subjected, his time was marked.  He started to die for Ireland at 4 a.m. on August 9, 1971, when he was interned and tortured.”

McKenna’s son, Sean, who was also arrested on 9 August 1971, became an IRA volunteer and participated in the first H-Block hunger strike in 1980.  He was on strike for 53 days, and was in a coma near death when the strike was finally called off. Having never fully recovered, Sean died on 19 December 2008.

MATT BAGGOT SURRENDERS & IS AWAY BACK TO LONDON

Baggott the RUC/PSNI Chief of British Paramilitary police retires today, after five years. His assistant is an RUC man called Hamilton, has been appointed to replace him. Baggott said that the RUC/PSNI past was "toxic" and a huge drain on resources, bleeding the ordinaryBritish taxpayer dry.

Baggot revealed that when he joined the RUC/PSNI five years ago, he had not expected the quick upsurge in political violence, like "Trying to blow up the Policing Board, trying to blow up (Palace) Barracks, mortars, close quarter shoots, assassinations, 174 terrorist attacks in 2010... and then there was public order.All the stuff the media keep secret from the world while pretending there is a peace process here.

He said "One night last year, 84 separate protests and riots were running at the same time. We had half the number (of SS men), for the first time in 40 years," doesn't sound normal, does it,but again the media did not tell us about it, because there is supposed to be censorship to support an illusionary peace process.




Baggott admitted that even though he had worked in the likes of Peckham and Brixton, and dealt with the miners' strike, British Occupied Ireland had been the most difficult environment he had worked. "It has been (the most challenging) because of the terrorism and the public order problems and the sectarian issues that still remain... " no that's not peace process stuff either is it.

He added that he can't wait to get out of the place fast enough or words to that effect. He said: "I do know it is the right time to move on, although I have the option of two more years on my contract but I want to get out of here in one piece, while I am still alive and have a bit of sanity left"

Baggott pulled his police cap on back to front and in his best Lauren Cooper impersonation saying: "Am I bovvered?" Obviously after 5 years in Belfast he has lost it. "If it had been a better day you could have snatched a photograph of me sunning myself naked on a deckchair outside," he said before he was administered more medication.


As he prepared to hang up his SS uniform, after five of the most difficult years of his life at the helm of the RUC/PSNI SS, he visibly began to relax. He joked about a photograph of himself during last year's fleg protests in which the strain of the job is clearly etched across his face. "I looked about 100 in that photograph."

He opened a door in his office and pointed to the wall behind it. "That's where I would go to bang my head. If you look closely you'll see all the dents from my head in the wall," he said.


"The past is toxic to the PSNI and a huge drain on resources... the past is a huge dilemma, that has to be resolved, and then there was the sudden resurgence in dissident republican attacks and serious public order situations. There was a lot to deal with when I first arrived that I hadn't expected," he says.

Deborah McAleese asked Baggott a few questions.



Q: You could have stayed for an extra two years. What made you decide it was time to go?

A: I have very strong faith and I believe my time came to an end. My thinking was, towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, that five years was probably the right time. I have been able to put in place the very personal policing that we want. We have dealt with a very real resurgent terrorist threat to devolution. In the weeks since I took over it was bomb after bomb.

Q: Did our politicians inflame that public order situation?


A: I am measured in what I say because I am the police chief not a politician. I didn't think they were unequivocal in condemning violence and they should have been right behind the Parades Commission irrespective of the determination.




Q: Do you feel you could have had more support from our politicians?

A: I think so.




Q: When you first arrived here were you expecting to have to deal with all of this?

A: No. I had no real perception of how quickly the dissidents were on the front foot in terms of that upsurge and how deeply challenging that was to the peace process.

The bit that was unexpected was the upsurge in terrorism - trying to blow up the Policing Board, trying to blow up (Palace) Barracks, mortars, close quarter shoots, assassinations, 174 terrorist attacks in 2010.


Q: Is Northern Ireland one of the most challenging places you have worked?

A: Definitely. Because of the terrorism and the public order problems and the sectarian issues that still remain.


Q: So what now for Matt Baggott?

A: I'm going to have a break, dig the garden, do some fishing, just be normal for a while. I was very motivated when I went to Rome for a few days and I have decided to become a Catholic after watching this loyalist lot here.

WAR & PEACE MEDIA DISINFORMATION BOLLOX ASK COULSON

meesterclean

Please, stop the charade. One of the hostages was reported to have called out from where he was being held with a cellphone he hid in his butt. The families know of this and do not believe all of the lies that these puppet governments have been saying, always changing their stories. The Washington Post reported that the Rolls Royce engines called home after their successful landing as they were designed to do. Putin has reported that he had no idea why the US Govt would electronically hijack the plane and take it to their naval base in the Andaman Island chain in the Indian Ocean. He also revealed that all Boeing plans have been equipped with an electronic system that allows any of them to be hijacked and flown remotely, just like a drone. As well, there are hundreds of witnesses from a nation in the Indian Ocean who claim to have seen the plane fly over. And, it was reported in The Malaysian Times about the very strange connections that Jacob Rothschild has to this missing flight. It is well known by people investigating the CIA of JR's strong connections with them and the many front companies they started together. The Malaysian Times did report about how this company, Freescale, had just completed the process of patenting a new kind of microchip that is expected to take over the world's economy, and now that the four other owners of the company are considered lost, Jacob Rothschild is now sole owner of this company and all of its military secrets.




Palamina1


Oh please how long is this farce going to continue? It is inconceivable that 'no-one' knows where this aircraft ended up. Hello! How many billion exactly have the USA and Chna invested in satellite technology? One of them definitely knows all about MH370 and probably so does the other but it's like a game of military poker - you can't show your hand to the other side, you've got to keep them guessing about your spy surveillance technology. As for what happened? Accidentally shot down - we've seen unidentified aircraft shot down before - switching off the transponder sealed its fate. By whom? Either the Chinese -explains why they tried to divert attention to Malaysia and away from themselves, criticising the airline and government at every opportunity - or the Americans- the flight was probably headed to Diego Garcia where they have a semi-secret strategic base. While the Ozzies have been on a wild goose case in the Southern Ocean, the perpetrators have been able to dispose of the incriminating evidence. Unlikely now anything will be found - as they've had time to do a professional clean-up job, so MH370 will become the avionics Marie Celeste of the 21st century.







Sy Gunson


Hallelujah, common sense at last.


The claims MH370 flew through the Straits of Malacca make no sense.


1) Not seen on radar flying west from IGARI

2) Claimed Butterworth radar track could not be complied with in time available

3) No other radars which should have seen MH370 saw it

4) Oil Rig worker's sighting ignored

5) Transponder signal three hours after take off ignored by investigators

6) Satellite ping chart after take off can't be reconciled with radar track east


Occam's Razor hacks away all the theories which can't explain behaviour until one is left with the only possible explanation

Pilot's wife breaks silence... says he spoke from cockpit; Hunt shifts south after more than 100 days

By

• Staff with Agencies

Published Thursday, June 26, 2014

In this map provided on Thursday by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, details are presented in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. (AP)


UPDATE: Australia's Deputy PM says it is 'highly likely' that the missing flight MH370 was flying on autopilot when it flew into the southern Indian Ocean and disappeared more than 100 days ago.




The plane that vanished on March 8 was carrying 239 passengers while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.


New report revives conspiracy theory


In a latest development that contradicts an earlier report, the wife of one of the pilots onboard the missing MH370 flight has reportedly confirmed that her husband spoke to her from the cockpit, according to a report in the independent.


The report quotes two New Zealand journalists who claim to have spoken to the wife of the captain.


It was earlier reported that the co-pilot had said the words “good night Malaysia 370” and weeks later, the airline had revealed that they were unsure as to who uttered those words.


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New report revives conspiracy theory


A new Sunday Times reports states that the official police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has reportedly identified the plane's captain as the prime suspect.


According to the report Malaysian cops discovered that married dad of three Shah, 53, appeared to have made no social or work commitments for the future, unlike other members of his crew,.


The report also claims that a probe found that he had programmed a flight simulator with drills practising a flight far out into the southern Indian Ocean and landing on an island with a short runway.


This section of the report will revive the conspiracy theorists favourite explanation: Diego Garcia.

Click to read: Diego Garcia and MH370 conspiracy of a 'lost' island in middle of it all

Search to change direction

The drawn-out search for missing Malaysian Flight MH370 will revert to an area hundreds of kilometres south of the previously suspected crash site following new analysis of the plane's flight path, a report said Friday.

Investigators grappling to solve the mystery of the jet's disappearance are set to scour a zone 1,800 kilometres (1,116 miles) west of Perth - previously subject to an aerial search - when an underwater probe resumes in August, the West Australian said.

Citing unnamed US sources, the newspaper said Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) would soon announce the hunt will move 800 kilometres southwest from where it was previously focused.

It said these sources had revealed that survey ship Fugro Equator was already operating in this area and would soon be joined by Chinese vessel Zhu Kezhen.

A massive aerial and underwater search for MH370, which had 239 people onboard when it diverted from its Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight path on March 8, has failed to find any sign of the plane.

Scientists from British company Inmarsat told the BBC earlier this week that the search had yet to target the most likely crash site, or "hotspot", after becoming diverted by pings thought at the time to have originated from the plane's black boxes.

It was not clear from the West Australian report whether the new search area overlaps with the "hotspot".

JACC said Friday that the revised search zone, based on an intensive study of satellite communications from the jet and other data, would be announced by the end of the month.

Australian officials have said repeatedly that the revised search zone will be in the area of the seventh arc, or the final satellite "handshake" from the plane. It is believed to be when the aircraft ran out of fuel and was in descent.

JACC said the Fugro Equator was now working in this zone.

"Located along the seventh arc, that area is consistent with provisional analysis of satellite and other data that is being used to determine the future search area," it said.

Australian officials announced earlier this week that a survey of the sea bed, as yet mostly unmapped and crucial to the success of the underwater search, had resumed.

Two ships - Fugro Equator and Zhu Kezhen - will survey an area up to 6,000 metres deep and covering up to 60,000 square kilometres before an a contractor begins an intensive undersea probe looking for debris.

Previously an intensive undersea search for the plane, in the area in which the acoustic noises were detected, failed to find any sign of the jet.

The source of the noises is unknown.

Revised search zone for Malaysian flight by month's end; Seabed mapping resumes

Australian officials said Wednesday they will announce the new search zone for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by month's end, as mapping of  the Indian Ocean seabed resumed.

The jet went missing on March 8 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and despite a massive aerial and sea search no sign of the aircraft which was carrying 239 people has been found.

An underwater probe of the Indian Ocean seabed where acoustic signals, thought at the time to have come from the jet's black box recorders, were heard also proved fruitless.

Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said analysis of satellite and other data to determine the search area for the next underwater phase would be concluded soon.

"The search area will be confirmed before the end of June, after completion of extensive collaborative analysis by a range of specialists," it said in a statement.

"It is already clear from the provisional results of that analysis that the search zone will move, but still be on the seventh arc (where the aircraft last communicated with satellite)."

The search has been frustrated by a lack of information, with experts modelling the plane's most likely flight path based on signals between it and an Inmarsat satellite.

The seventh arc, or "handshake", is the final signal from the plane and thought to be when the jet ran out of fuel.

Scientists from the British firm have suggested that searchers are yet to target the most likely Indian Ocean crash site because they became distracted by the acoustic signals detected in April.

"It was by no means an unrealistic location but it was further to the northeast than our area of highest probability," Chris Ashton at Inmarsat told the BBC's Horizon programme on Tuesday.

But JACC said the area in which the Australian vessel Ocean Shield used a mini-sub to scour the ocean floor was "based on the best information and analysis available at that time", including from Inmarsat.

"The location was identified by the satellite communications sub-group, which included accident investigation agencies from the USA and the UK along with their technical advisors, including from the aircraft manufacturer, the satellite manufacturer and Inmarsat as operator of the satellite," JACC said Wednesday.

"Based on analysis at the time, it represented the most likely location of the aircraft."

Australia, which is leading the hunt given the plane is likely to have crashed in its search and rescue zone, said the vessel Fugro Equator, which it contracted, had begun its work in mapping the ocean floor.

It will be joined by Chinese PLA-Navy ship Zhu Kezhen in conducting the bathymetric survey crucial to carrying out the deep water search for the plane which is set to begin in August.

"So far, the Zhu Kezhen has surveyed 4,088 square kilometres of the ocean floor," before it was forced back to port for repairs, JACC said.

The survey of a 60,000 square kilometre search zone was expected to take three months.

Dead, alive or lost? How to live for 100 days... A wife's story

Zhang Qian's world has collapsed in the more than 100 days since her husband disappeared along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. She quit her job, sleeps rarely and prefers not to go out, except to Buddhist temples, where she has found some solace.

In the more than 100 days since her husband disappeared along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Zhang Qian's world has collapsed. She quit her job, sleeps rarely and prefers not to go out, except to the Buddhist temples where she has found some solace.

"At the temple, I can speak from my heart to my husband," Zhang, 28, said on a recent visit to the Temple of Spiritual Light in the western hills of Beijing. She broke down in sobs before continuing.

"I think he can hear me ... I have so much to tell him, there is so much I have not said. I hope the Buddha will carry those words to him and bring him back."

Much of the world has moved on from the frenzied interest in the mysterious March 8 disappearance of the plane, but relatives of the 239 people missing cannot. Satellite data shows that the plane went down in a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean far from any land, but with no trace of the aircraft recovered, many cling to a flicker of hope — however faint — that their loved ones might still be alive.

"It may be my fantasy, but what if one day he sends some distress signals and he gets saved, and that will be the end of this?" Zhang said.

Her husband was among 153 Chinese on the plane. Chinese culture places an especially heavy emphasis on finding and seeing the remains of people believed dead before true grieving and the process of moving on can begin.

The absence of proof of death has made closure elusive for all relatives, said Lawrence Palinkas, professor of social work at the University of Southern California.

"When there is no physical proof of death, it is easier to remain in (denial) for a much longer period of time," he said. "At this point, those who have not accepted the possibility that the plane crashed and all aboard were lost are relying on extended family and friends to maintain the belief that family members are still alive, or that hope is still viable until the remains are found."

Hotspot hope?

The search for the missing Malaysian Flight MH370 is yet to target the most likely crash site, having been distracted by what is now believed to have been a bogus signal, British company Inmarsat claimed Tuesday.

Inmarsat's scientists told the BBC's Horizon programme that they had calculated the plane's most likely flight path and a "hotspot" in the southern Indian Ocean in which it most likely came down.

The flight lost contact on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with total of 239 passengers and crew on board.
Hourly pings sent by the plane were received by Inmarsat's spacecraft, leading scientists to calculate its likely path.

Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield was dispatched to investigate, but before reaching the likely site, began to detect a signal that it believed was coming from the plane's black box, Inmarsat told the BBC programme.

Two months were spent searching 850 sq km of sea bed north west of Perth, but the source of the "pings" was not found and a submersible robot found no evidence of the airliner.

"It was by no means an unrealistic location but it was further to the north east than our area of highest probability," Chris Ashton at Inmarsat told Horizon.
Experts from the satellite firm modelled the most likely flight path using the hourly pings and assuming a speed and heading consistent with the plane being flown by autopilot.

"We can identify a path that matches exactly with all those frequency measurements and with the timing measurements and lands on the final arc at a particular location, which then gives us a sort of a hotspot area on the final arc where we believe the most likely area is," explained Ashton.

After coming under criticism from relatives over the futile search, Malaysia's civil aviation authority and Inmarsat last month decided to release the raw data.

However, its complexity has led to few independent conclusions being drawn about the likely crash site.
Malaysian Selamat Umar, whose son Mohamad Khairul Amri was on the ill-fated jetliner, questioned the motives behind the data release.

"I am not convinced at all by the data," he said. Why are they releasing it now? Before when we asked for it, they did not want to release it. What can we do with it now?
"I think they could have made some changes to the data," Selamat, 60, added.

Book claims truth

Just as the mystery that surrounds the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 was fading into distant memory, a new book is set to enflame passions and arguments that support a conspiracy theory.
The book, authored by a pilot and journalist from New Zealand, claims to show readers that the tragedy was no accident.

According to a report on stuff.co.nz Ewan Wilson, a commercial pilot and journalist Geoff Taylor, said: "For the first time we present a detailed analysis of the flight, the incredible route it took, and who we believe was in charge of the aircraft as it plunged into the Indian Ocean." 

The book, called ‘Good Night Malaysian 370: The Truth behind the loss of Flight 370’ will shock readers, the report said. 

The authors use a process of investigative elimination that removes all possible scenarios, except one.

'Will not rest'

Malaysia's government pledged on Monday that it "will not rest" until missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is found, as it marked the 100th day since the plane vanished on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew.

"100 days after MH370 went missing, its loss remains a painful void in the hearts of all Malaysians and those around the world. We cannot and will not rest until MH370 is found," Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.

In a statement, Hishammuddin also promised that Malaysia "cannot and will not abandon" the families of the missing passengers, some of whom have sharply criticised the Malaysian government's handling of the mystery.

The Boeing 777 inexplicably disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No trace of it has been found despite an extensive Australian-led search effort deep in the Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have gone down.
Hishammuddin also offered Malaysia's thanks to Australia, China, the United States and fellow Southeast Asian countries for their assistance in the search.

Malaysian Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya issued a separate statement pledging similar resolve in finding the plane, calling the period since March 8 "the longest and most painful 100 days in Malaysia Airlines' history."

Anguished relatives of MH370 passengers have accused Malaysia's government of a bumbling and chaotic response to the crisis and covering up what happened to the plane.

Malaysia denies it is withholding information but has remained tight-lipped over investigations that it has launched into the mystery and given no timetable for when the findings of those probes will be released.

Promo of 'missing plane' film at Cannes... Click here

The director of a movie based on the Malaysian Airlines plane disappearance says he rushed the trailer of the project so he could bring it to the Cannes Film Festival.

"I was seeing the festival calendars and I could not miss Cannes. And so I told my team to make a trailer immediately," said Rupesh Paul of his planned film, "The Vanishing Act."

It wasn't until he arrived at the festival that he faced questions over the timing of the film's promotion and whether he was being sensitive to the families of the missing passengers.

"These things came in to my thoughts only after I came here," said Paul, also a producer, in an interview on Saturday. "From the very first interview I was only asked about this fact that we did not even think of much when we were pitching this in India. Nobody asked this question in India actually. When we came to Europe this was the only question I faced."

The 35-year-old director says he never thought his actions might upset anyone but insists "that nobody will be hurt (by) this movie."

"Why should I gain out of somebody's pain?" said Paul.

The trailer for "The Vanishing Act" shows two crew members kissing as a third looks at them angrily. It's something the director says will not be included in the main feature.

"This trailer was not even meant to get released on the Internet online," said Paul. "It was meant to show some investors and producers that the movie will be dramatic and thrilling. Somehow it got released, we had to give it to many people, it got out of my hands. And there is no love triangle in this movie at all and there is no romance in this movie."

A handgun is also featured in the movie, but Paul said it isn't what it seems.

"Everyone that has flown once on even a small flight will definitely understand that it is impossible to carry a gun inside, whatever you do," he said. "So it's impossible, but there is a weapon in the story."

The director is keeping tight-lipped about his theory on how the plane disappeared and what will be shown in the film. He said that although he "cannot reveal the climax, it will not be a tragic climax."

The trailer, which also shows commotion and horror on the plane, has garnered more than 300,000 views on YouTube.

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          Amanda Kramer • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          Flight 370 was remotely hijacked. The co-pilot attempted to make a call which briefly connected then cut off (confirmed). Plane was spotted over the madives. Diego Garcia reported that Flight 370 was on it's radar on March 9, reported subsequently pulled a day later. March 10, 2 people came out from Diego Garcia and said the plane had landed there, within hours, that article was quashed. There are people who've taken screen shots of that article. The plane never crashed in the Ocean or else it would have disconnected people's phone's from their social networks they were on. If they are submerged, they disconnect from these sites. Anyone whose ever dropped their phone and submerged it in water will tell you that.
          
          
          The plane is either at Diego Garcia or it was there (might not be anymore).
          
          
          There was never a "mass search" going on in the Indian Ocean as the plane was never there. They knew it, and it's too costly to fake something like that. Most of the families you see in the media are mostly paid actors (also confirmed).
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Sci traveler Amanda Kramer • 3 days ago
          
          
          
          
          Of course its not in the Indian ocean, The aliens got it!!!
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          leob •
          
          
          
          
          Yes. It's really hard to find a crashed plane that "didn't crash".
          
          
          If the plane really crashed into the sea and NO DEBRIS found, THIS WILL DEFY THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF PHYSICS.
          
          
          
          
          
          Sue Bramley leob • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          The ocean is still a very big place for a plane even if it's a commercial one. The worst fear of course is disintegration in mid air at a high altitude. It's like sprinkling a bit of saw dust into a swimming pool. Yes, things do float but they would drift apart even if they were placed side by side in the water. Imagine someone threw my suitcase into a 'whatever' ocean, it could take 100 years to find it.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Justme Sue Bramley • 10 days ago
          
          
          
          
          You would think that debris, luggage or anything would be washed up anywhere after 14 weeks.
          
          
          chris87654 Sue Bramley • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          It didn't disintegrate at high altitude... though it flew on for 6-7 hours after hitting over 40000 feet for 23 minutes.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Smiley69ya leob • 3 days ago
          
          
          
          
          Soft landing "ditch" just like the landing on the Hudson. The Indian ocean can be a smooth as glass at times. That's why no debris. A possibility perhaps
          
          
          Real Deal • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          Looking for it on land? That's a novel idea. It's just what everyone except the experts have been suggesting ever since MH370 disappeared. I wonder if they've even looked to see if it's sitting exactly where the Russian Secret Service say it is? Wherever they look next, hopefully it will be without the 'uncontroverted' assistance of Inmarsat!
          
          
          
          
          
          G Augusto Real Deal • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          Well, if it crashed on the vicinity of the Southern Ganges, we can most certainly be seeing debris in the area where GeoResonance is now claiming they found debris. If you are going to put theories out there; the most-plausible would then be that the plane got shot down by one of the Southeast Asian countries and everyone is engaging in a cover up.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Arlene harris Real Deal • 4 days ago
          
          
          
          
          Where does the Russian Secret Service say it is?
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          simon Real Deal • 3 days ago
          
          
          
          
          I've read that the Russians claim the plane is on the afghan/pakistan border.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Bob413 • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          The plane is not in the ocean, there is no search there for it currently. Everything you see on Tv and in the media is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. They aren't going to waste valuable resources and manpower looking for a plane in an area they know isn't there.
          
          
          It's a sham, that plane is landed somewhere.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Martin351 • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          Ask yourself this:
          
          
          Do you really think the authorities are looking for a crashed plane in the ocean they know never crashed?
          
          
          Nothing but a media circus. The plane is sitting at Diego Garcia, this was confirmed back on March 10th by 2 people from that based and the articles were posted online. Taken down in a few hours but screen shots were taken and can be found.
          
          
          
          
          David Wakefield • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          It wasn't aliens or a freaken time travler. It's Lord Rothschild taking the Semi Conductor patent from the FREESCALE company who lost 24 top executives on the flight. The patent was owned by some of the executives who went missing, so the owner becomes Freescale Company (no people own it the company owns it). Freescale is owned by a company called Blackstone, which is in fact, a Rothchild's owned company..... Not that complicated people just follow the money as usual. Oh did I mention the patent is essentially priceless, because it is a tiny stand alone computer, worth billions if not trillions. You can use it for human bionics, war fare applications such as Friend or Foe targeting systems or communication devices, ect ect.
          
          
          
          
          KhawarNehal • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          Who are these "australian authorities" and why are they dismissing the bay of bengal ? What do they know that we don't. Since the governments who cannot be trusted to be transparent and truthful, then we have reason to believe that in the MH370 there is something fishy going on. If we alleged diego garcia, did any government or "authoriity" send any request to the US navy to allow a visit to dismiss the island ? If not then why are any claims being dismissed without any investigation especially if the "authorities" in charge have not been able to find the plane ?
          
          
          Sue Deaunym • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          All along, I've speculated that the plane landed in Malaysia, maybe at Langkawi, and was involved in some political malfeasance involving the Malaysian government that led them to put out constantly misleading and erroneous information. Probably, they removed the black boxes and had them dumped in the Indian Ocean to distract the international search teams and media.
          
          
          
          
          
          Sk Sue Deaunym • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          yes,the malaysian goverment did not want you to become the new prime minister.lol
          
          
          
          
          G Augusto • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          LOL! So, if it is not in the official search zone, we are not going to look at the evidence... Instead of looking for scientific facts, we are going to stick to the evidence that supports our preferred technology until... Well; until people get tired of speculation and go along with the official version of things. Why not? People are still flying in spite all possible uncertainty; mourners will eventually "get over it;" and we can still pretend that our technology is infallible and (for many) that the Earth is the center of the universe. Just send ONE search vehicle to the new region, you idiots! Then you can REALLY talk about discounting that evidence so we can concentrate on your best speculation.
          
          
          
          
          Lyn G Augusto • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          I support your comment! The most irritating part of this whole MH370 coverage is - when any new lead comes up, it is just dismissed as 'false leads' because the experts are going by the calculations of their so called 'INMAR Satellite Data'. Why can't they just go and check out the leads? At least for the sake of the victims' relatives, and the rest of the world, who are patiently waiting to hear the long awaited news on this tragedy.... the mystery that has baffled everybody including experts and scientists. Sometimes, technology can fail us, it is not 100% accurate! In reality, we need to try and work out on all possibilities. Hope this mystery comes to an end, soon.
          
          
          
          John G Augusto • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          It is not in Australia's capacity to search in another country territorial waters. A search outside of Australian territorial becomes another's responsibility.
          
          
          
          
          
          Roger Rugotska • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          Drop an active ELT in first known ping location. Take into consideration current at ocean bottom. Calculate findings .
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Twinkle • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          "The 'debris' is not in the search area so it cannot be the debris" - what a load of codswallop. No-one knows where the plane went down (if it did go down) so why not investigate credible leads instead of searching in an area that has to date produced no leads at all?
          
          
          
          G Augusto Twinkle • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          That is what I have been saying, Twinkle... Very scientific approach, n'est ce pas? LOL!
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          William Forbes • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          Was wondering. In the search of the pilot's computer, did any evidence even hint at "ground effects flight"? A very low level flight by a large aircraft greatly increases its range and a pilot trained in that technique can offer new options for destinations and or purposes. It also renders a large plane/jet virtually invisible, except for noise and at sea this is not a concern; although a slight seismic signature may be evident.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          M • 3 days ago
          
          
          
          
          Did the pilot THIS and did the pilot THAT...just stop fooling the people and the whole world! This is a clear case of a major blunder that the government wants to hide! Unless aliens really exist and they took away the plane into space, there is absolutely NO WAY that the plane CANNOT be found on the face of earth.
          
          
          
          rubayah • 5 days ago
          
          
          
          
          It is hard to understand why the Malaysian and Australian governments are convinced that the plane is in the South Indian Ocean . Inmarsat is not sure whether it is North or South Arcs The pings are not from MH370 . SO, what else do they know, to convince them that they are right to keep searching in the South Indian Ocean. Did they see or know who put it there? All other leads by human witnesses ,not machines so many of them, are being totally ignored Why were cargo not fully disclosed, why pilots audio edited? Why were so much evasion of the facts and changing statements?WHY??? Someone knows all the answers but they are not talking . So easy to blame on people who are not there to defend themselves and keep fooling us by searching in the wrong area.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Mylvaganam Mahendran • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT IS HIDING THE TRUTH.
          
          
          
          
          Seymour (Sy) Levine • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          Also, pilots should not be permitted to shut off power to he critical communication system. These systems can be made electrically and fire safe.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Anita •
          
          
          
          Give GeoResonance change to analysis debris. Their founding make more sense that the search @ Indian Ocean where they are seeking at moment.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          UnCL3 • 3 days ago
          
          
          
          
          Another option...the pilot was going to kamikaze the plane into the US base on Diego Garcia, and it got zapped on the way in. Doesn't the US claim a rather large buffer security zone around Diego?
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          vered • 2 days ago
          
          
          
          
          well, Maldive residents did see a Malaysian plane heading south. but where are the passengers? the pilots wouldn't agree to kill the passengers.
          
          
          
          
          ORPHIAS DZVUKE vered • a day ago
          
          
          
          
          Why can't the Malaysian Government re-route their searches through Diego Garcia and Maldive to clear the world on unavailability of the fouled plane? The world is purely in utter suspense with regards to this flight's disappearance. Hook off the pilots as suspects and deal with the issue on the ground. We are sick and tired of being told lies and misleads. Stop touring the Indian Ocean and get seriously busy to relieve pressure on relatives, etc, of the missing people aboard the MH370 flight.
          
          Worried Orphias Dzvuke
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          "MALAYSIA 370" THE FILM http://www.370film.com/ THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Dave Eboch • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          Japan is saying Israel and George Soros were behind it and Israel planned to steal a kinetic microchip that was just patented for defense contractor Freehold Conductors. Scientist from this company were on board flight MH370. Come to think of it a plane identical to this flight was found in a hanger in Tel Aviv.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Mylvaganam Mahendran • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          TECHNICAL THEORIES FAILED. WHAT NEXT?
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Sunil Mylvaganam Mahendran • 2 months ago
          
          
          
          
          Yes all theories are failed and man must think only Nature is great.
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Karthik Sunil • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          World scientists should immediately stop exploring the universe other than earth.. & all the funds should be enrouted to find MH 370 & the possible cause. A science which is not useful for mankind is a kind of terrorism.
          
          
          
          
          
          Lyn Karthik • a month ago
          
          
          
          
          Absolutely right! What is the use of science explorations going beyond our planet, when scientists cannot find what is lost on our planet? ....It is just waste of time, money and energy on something where humans may not even survive naturally elsewhere. The earth needs more exploration... here itself!
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          Soh Chai Lyn • 10 days ago
          
          
          
          
          Agreed with Lyn very true...