Quotes about hijacking (14 Quotes)


    Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.



    We already have a security plan in place what we're looking to do now is to improve our response plan for when something happens. We're not so much worried about someone hijacking our vehicles as we are about one of our trucks being stolen and used as a weapon, or something dangerous being put on one of our vehicles while the driver is making deliveries. That's what really concerns us.

    There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.


    Armed robbery and hijacking have endangered humanitarian workers assisting over 450,000 vulnerable people living in the area. Moreover, credible information points to the use of hijacked vehicles for military purposes by these armed groups. This is unacceptable and contrary to international humanitarian law.


    The rhetoric, I think, is more charged now and has been over the last five or six years than I remember it over the last 40 years. There's always been disagreements but you always had negotiations over hijacking, the immigration agreement, drug agencies.

    We want to find out exactly what they want directly, ... Our primary concern is the early termination of the hijacking, the safety and welfare of the passengers and crew, and above all, the interest of the nation.

    The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes assassinating the President hijacking an airliner and murdering a government poultry inspector.

    Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.






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