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Terrorism

Hijack or bomb — not adopted as a finding

Stolen passports and a residual third-party clause keep the hypothesis in the file. No claim of responsibility, no identified bomb, no identified hijack crew.

No group claimed MH370

Twelve years on, no organisation has issued a credible claim of responsibility. Absence of a claim is not proof of innocence; it is a fact that sits next to the stolen passports.

Two stolen European passports

Italian and Austrian documents · two Iranian travellers

Yes — two Iranian men were on board. They travelled on stolen European passports (Italian and Austrian), not Iranian documents. The official investigation treated them as likely asylum seekers and did not adopt a terrorism finding.

Al-Qaeda meeting, Kuala Lumpur, January 2000

Hijackers later on the 9/11 flights attended an al-Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000. CIA tracked the meeting. Fourteen years later MH370 left the same city’s airport.

Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad

Passenger · Iranian · boarded on a stolen Italian passport

Iranian. Travelled on MH370 using an Italian passport stolen from Luigi Maraldi. Later identified by name. The official investigation treated him as a likely asylum seeker, not as a hijacker.