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20 freescale semiconductor employees on board.

• smoyer 13y ago
  Would an embargoed country like Iran consider them worth the risk? It would be a pretty serious international incident if they were found out. And if you hold the passengers too long, you can't claim "some crazy terrorist/spy/actor" was working without authorization and here are your people back.
• nutjob123 13y ago
  Wow, thats scary. Some countries would kill to have engineers with specific skill sets. Maybe these guys were worth it.
• prewett 13y ago
  All that effort, and still no guarantee that they will actually work with you. Some may be willing to die, others might stealthily sabotage the product, etc. And if you can provide 20 freescale engineers with what they need to actually make something, you can probably just hire people normally.
• knowaveragejoe 13y ago
  And? Finish the thought.
• maaku 13y ago
  And so "they" hijack a plane to get these guys? Wouldn't it be easier to just kidnap them at gunpoint from their hotel? The freescale connection is a total red herring. Either they intended to land/crash the plane somewhere and failed, or the plane was the target and it's now sitting in some deserted desert airstrip getting retrofitted for whatever mission it is intended for.