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No Terror Group Claims Credit for Missing Jet, Official Says
More
than three days after the last contact with Malaysia Airlines Flight
370, no electronic "chatter" has been detected indicating any known
terror group was behind the aircraft's mysterious disappearance.
A
senior U.S. official said federal investigators are reviewing
surveillance video from the point of origin of the missing flight —
along with travel patterns associated with two stolen passports
fraudulently used to board the doomed aircraft and any thumbprint
records made at security checkpoints.
A source told NBC News
that only "wackos" were taking responsibility for the disappearance —
the individuals who seem to come out of the woodwork in the wake of
global catastrophes.
Al-Qaeda —
as well as its affiliates and other groups inspired by its
fundamentalist jihad — traditionally seeks credit after perpetrating
attacks.
If the aircraft crashed
as a result of a terror incident, officials had found no apparent
connection Sunday to the U.S., the United Kingdom or another Al-Qaeda
target.
The flight carried a
large number of Chinese passengers and crew. No group to date is known
to have targeted China with an attack as sophisticated as a hijacking or
bombing of an airplane.
The two stolen passports bear a troubling travel pattern, according to senior intelligence sources. In at least one prior instance, the passports were used in tandem to board a flight.
There
was an effort underway Sunday to compare airport checkpoint images — if
the images are available — from prior points where the documents were
used since they were reported stolen or missing.
U.S. officials are still sorting out how and where the fraudulent passengers purchased tickets.
Both
ticket holders were traveling through China to connect to a flight to
Amsterdam. One of the passengers was then due to connect to Frankfurt
with the other en route to Stockholm.
Officials currently believe the tickets were paid for in cash, according to one senior law enforcement official.
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