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Diego Garcia: The Strategic U.S Military Base in Indian Ocean
Diego Garica was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the early sixteenth century and its name is believed to have come from either an early explorer's ship captain or its navigator. Under the Treaty of Paris of 1814, many of the islands in the Indian Ocean under the control of the French were ceded to Britain, including the Mauritius and the Chagos Islands. In 1965, these islands became the British Indian Ocean Territory. During the 19th Century, the islands were used as plantations, producing copra and coconut oils. Plantations on Diego Garcia were closed in 1971, following a decision to establish the U.S. Navy Support Facility based on the 1966 Exchange of Notes between Great Britain and the United States. In January 1971, U.S. Navy Seabees were transported to the island by landing sh...
published: 06 Mar 2021
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Diego Garcia: The Most Controversial Island in the World
Explore the hidden secrets of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean! From its tumultuous history to military occupation, CIA black site allegations, and environmental conservation efforts - uncover the mysteries on this unique atoll!
published: 30 Nov 2023
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How The U.S. Stole This Paradise Island
The story of what happened to the Chagossians still isn’t widely known. But it’s one filled with lies, conspiracy and a violent plan by the U.S. and UK to remove them from their homeland for a military base.
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published: 05 Jul 2023
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Why Diego Garcia Is America's Most Controversial Military Base
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The island of Diego Garcia grants the United States Military an excellent location for a military base but it is not without controversy. Learn about the history of this extremely isolated island and what it is being used for today.
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published: 01 Feb 2020
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MH370 "island" conspiracy theory doesn't die
Despite little evidence, MH370 conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the island of Diego Garcia.
published: 09 Apr 2014
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USA's $1 Billion Dollar Secret Airbase
Diego Garcia island is not just a tropical paradise, it’s also a military base that’s home to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. The Air Force and Navy conduct joint military operations out of Diego Garcia, and the ring-shaped island’s interior harbor is filled with billion-dollar Naval vessels and submarines. Diego Garcia has two parallel runways which are used by cargo planes and heavy bombers. the runways were used heavily at the peak of the War in Afghanistan. Diego Garcia island has a tumultuous history, and its future is not set in stone. Locals were forced to leave the island so the military base could be built. The anchorage area in the center of the island is large enough for a massive aircraft carrier, and there are five huge sealift ships strategically anchored around the lagoon....
published: 14 Jul 2021
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The Island of Secrets | Al Jazeera Investigations
A remote Mauritian island is being quietly transformed into a military hub for India's navy. That’s what we found using satellite pictures, shipping data, financial documents, and images from a barely accessible island about 1100 km north of Mauritius. The Island of Secrets also shows how the construction project on Agaléga has the potential to uproot the lives of its 300 residents in order to make way for a military facility. Residents worry that what happened on the Mauritian island of Diego Garcia in the 1960s will happen to them. The Mauritian government responded to this film by restating its position that there is “no agreement” with India to set up a military a base in Agaléga. It said that construction work on the island is designed to improve “inadequate infrastructure facilities”...
published: 03 Aug 2021
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Concerns grow over welfare of asylum seekers trapped on Diego Garcia
The United Nations Refugee Agency has told this programme it's concerned about the welfare of asylum seekers trapped and isolated in a makeshift camp overseen by the UK, and has asked for access.
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Around 100 Sri Lankan Tamils have been stranded on the remote Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia for 18 months.
They say they are living in “prison-like conditions”.
Five of the most vulnerable have been sent to Rwanda for treatment after attempting to take their own lives.
Today their lawyers went to the High Court in London to try to stop them being sent back.
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published: 24 Mar 2023
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published: 19 Feb 2024
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Diego Garcia Facts: Seven Things You Didn't Know
Diego Garcia, the militarised island in the middle of the Indian Ocean has gained a fair bit of attention this year since it was claimed that the missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 could have landed there. The grim history of the island was revealed in the 2009 book, 'The Island Of Shame'.
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Diego Garcia is technically part of the UK, located on the content of Asia and part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The US were granted permission to use the island as a military base in 1966 in exchange for cancelling a $14 million British debt for a military hardware purchase. Diego Garcia is now home to around 4,000 military personnel and support staff in 654 buildings.
Diego Garci...
published: 10 Jul 2014
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Diego Garcia: The Strategic U.S Military Base in Indian Ocean
Diego Garica was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the early sixteenth century and its name is believed to have come from either an early explorer's ship ca...
Diego Garica was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the early sixteenth century and its name is believed to have come from either an early explorer's ship captain or its navigator. Under the Treaty of Paris of 1814, many of the islands in the Indian Ocean under the control of the French were ceded to Britain, including the Mauritius and the Chagos Islands. In 1965, these islands became the British Indian Ocean Territory. During the 19th Century, the islands were used as plantations, producing copra and coconut oils. Plantations on Diego Garcia were closed in 1971, following a decision to establish the U.S. Navy Support Facility based on the 1966 Exchange of Notes between Great Britain and the United States. In January 1971, U.S. Navy Seabees were transported to the island by landing ship to begin building the U.S. military presence on Diego Garcia. Today Diego Garcia is home to 15 separate commands, including the U.S. Navy Support Facility, which functions as the host command.
Its position is strategically vital for the US, allowing it to project its military strength northwest into the Middle East and South Asia, east into Asia, or west into Africa. It's the most important US base in the Indian Ocean region. Diego Garcia is surrounded by about 60 other atolls. Its coast forms a deep natural harbor, making it the perfect site for a naval base. Diego Garcia has been the site of important military action by the US. On the remote tropical island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean lies a secretive, strategically vital US military base. Before that, the site had proved its strategic importance for US military operations in the Middle East as a base for Air Force attacks in 1991 during the first Gulf War. From the base, long-range B52 bombers embarked on missions to
Afghanistan in 2001, targeting Taliban and Qaeda positions in the country's mountains. The base is also vital as a refueling point for the US Navy and Air Force. Its deep port is able to accommodate aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and other ships. With Diego Garcia accessible only to restricted US military personnel, its secrecy has attracted speculation. Unlike the US military base in Guam, the spouses of personnel are not allowed on Diego Garcia. No journalist has visited. The UN court ruled that it was illegal for the British to demand possession of the islands as a condition of independence. Shortly afterward, the British leased Diego Garcia to the US. The UN has now served an eviction notice to the British. Though the ruling is not enforceable, it exerts moral pressure and has placed the future of the base in doubt. The base has served as a launchpad for US military operations in the Middle East and as a refueling point for Air Force patrols headed to the South China Sea, and it was even designated an emergency landing spot for space missions by NASA.
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Diego Garica was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the early sixteenth century and its name is believed to have come from either an early explorer's ship captain or its navigator. Under the Treaty of Paris of 1814, many of the islands in the Indian Ocean under the control of the French were ceded to Britain, including the Mauritius and the Chagos Islands. In 1965, these islands became the British Indian Ocean Territory. During the 19th Century, the islands were used as plantations, producing copra and coconut oils. Plantations on Diego Garcia were closed in 1971, following a decision to establish the U.S. Navy Support Facility based on the 1966 Exchange of Notes between Great Britain and the United States. In January 1971, U.S. Navy Seabees were transported to the island by landing ship to begin building the U.S. military presence on Diego Garcia. Today Diego Garcia is home to 15 separate commands, including the U.S. Navy Support Facility, which functions as the host command.
Its position is strategically vital for the US, allowing it to project its military strength northwest into the Middle East and South Asia, east into Asia, or west into Africa. It's the most important US base in the Indian Ocean region. Diego Garcia is surrounded by about 60 other atolls. Its coast forms a deep natural harbor, making it the perfect site for a naval base. Diego Garcia has been the site of important military action by the US. On the remote tropical island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean lies a secretive, strategically vital US military base. Before that, the site had proved its strategic importance for US military operations in the Middle East as a base for Air Force attacks in 1991 during the first Gulf War. From the base, long-range B52 bombers embarked on missions to
Afghanistan in 2001, targeting Taliban and Qaeda positions in the country's mountains. The base is also vital as a refueling point for the US Navy and Air Force. Its deep port is able to accommodate aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and other ships. With Diego Garcia accessible only to restricted US military personnel, its secrecy has attracted speculation. Unlike the US military base in Guam, the spouses of personnel are not allowed on Diego Garcia. No journalist has visited. The UN court ruled that it was illegal for the British to demand possession of the islands as a condition of independence. Shortly afterward, the British leased Diego Garcia to the US. The UN has now served an eviction notice to the British. Though the ruling is not enforceable, it exerts moral pressure and has placed the future of the base in doubt. The base has served as a launchpad for US military operations in the Middle East and as a refueling point for Air Force patrols headed to the South China Sea, and it was even designated an emergency landing spot for space missions by NASA.
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- published: 06 Mar 2021
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Diego Garcia: The Most Controversial Island in the World
Explore the hidden secrets of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean! From its tumultuous history to military occupation, CIA black site allegations, and environmenta...
Explore the hidden secrets of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean! From its tumultuous history to military occupation, CIA black site allegations, and environmental conservation efforts - uncover the mysteries on this unique atoll!
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Explore the hidden secrets of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean! From its tumultuous history to military occupation, CIA black site allegations, and environmental conservation efforts - uncover the mysteries on this unique atoll!
- published: 30 Nov 2023
- views: 693009
11:36
How The U.S. Stole This Paradise Island
The story of what happened to the Chagossians still isn’t widely known. But it’s one filled with lies, conspiracy and a violent plan by the U.S. and UK to remov...
The story of what happened to the Chagossians still isn’t widely known. But it’s one filled with lies, conspiracy and a violent plan by the U.S. and UK to remove them from their homeland for a military base.
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- published: 05 Jul 2023
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Why Diego Garcia Is America's Most Controversial Military Base
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The island of Diego Garcia grants the United States Military an excellent location for a military base but it is not without controversy. Learn about the history of this extremely isolated island and what it is being used for today.
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The island of Diego Garcia grants the United States Military an excellent location for a military base but it is not without controversy. Learn about the history of this extremely isolated island and what it is being used for today.
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- published: 01 Feb 2020
- views: 1441056
2:51
MH370 "island" conspiracy theory doesn't die
Despite little evidence, MH370 conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the island of Diego Garcia.
Despite little evidence, MH370 conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the island of Diego Garcia.
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Despite little evidence, MH370 conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the island of Diego Garcia.
- published: 09 Apr 2014
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5:11
USA's $1 Billion Dollar Secret Airbase
Diego Garcia island is not just a tropical paradise, it’s also a military base that’s home to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. The Air Force and Navy conduct j...
Diego Garcia island is not just a tropical paradise, it’s also a military base that’s home to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. The Air Force and Navy conduct joint military operations out of Diego Garcia, and the ring-shaped island’s interior harbor is filled with billion-dollar Naval vessels and submarines. Diego Garcia has two parallel runways which are used by cargo planes and heavy bombers. the runways were used heavily at the peak of the War in
Afghanistan. Diego Garcia island has a tumultuous history, and its future is not set in stone. Locals were forced to leave the island so the military base could be built. The anchorage area in the center of the island is large enough for a massive aircraft carrier, and there are five huge sealift ships strategically anchored around the lagoon. These sealift ships are filled with millions of dollars of supplies at all times. On the west edge of Diego Garcia, you’ll find a small town where service members spend their downtime. Downtown Diego Garcia is filled with numerous amenities and facilities. It’s basically a small American town. There’s a swimming pool, fitness center, spa, chapel, post office, and mess hall. The island also has a nine-hole golf course and a bowling alley. There's even a burger restaurant where service members can enjoy lunch. Keep watching to learn all the secrets of Diego Garcia Island. It's off-limits to most people, but today you'll get to see what life is like at the Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility.
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Diego Garcia island is not just a tropical paradise, it’s also a military base that’s home to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. The Air Force and Navy conduct joint military operations out of Diego Garcia, and the ring-shaped island’s interior harbor is filled with billion-dollar Naval vessels and submarines. Diego Garcia has two parallel runways which are used by cargo planes and heavy bombers. the runways were used heavily at the peak of the War in
Afghanistan. Diego Garcia island has a tumultuous history, and its future is not set in stone. Locals were forced to leave the island so the military base could be built. The anchorage area in the center of the island is large enough for a massive aircraft carrier, and there are five huge sealift ships strategically anchored around the lagoon. These sealift ships are filled with millions of dollars of supplies at all times. On the west edge of Diego Garcia, you’ll find a small town where service members spend their downtime. Downtown Diego Garcia is filled with numerous amenities and facilities. It’s basically a small American town. There’s a swimming pool, fitness center, spa, chapel, post office, and mess hall. The island also has a nine-hole golf course and a bowling alley. There's even a burger restaurant where service members can enjoy lunch. Keep watching to learn all the secrets of Diego Garcia Island. It's off-limits to most people, but today you'll get to see what life is like at the Diego Garcia Naval Support Facility.
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- published: 14 Jul 2021
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16:44
The Island of Secrets | Al Jazeera Investigations
A remote Mauritian island is being quietly transformed into a military hub for India's navy. That’s what we found using satellite pictures, shipping data, finan...
A remote Mauritian island is being quietly transformed into a military hub for India's navy. That’s what we found using satellite pictures, shipping data, financial documents, and images from a barely accessible island about 1100 km north of Mauritius. The Island of Secrets also shows how the construction project on Agaléga has the potential to uproot the lives of its 300 residents in order to make way for a military facility. Residents worry that what happened on the Mauritian island of Diego Garcia in the 1960s will happen to them. The Mauritian government responded to this film by restating its position that there is “no agreement” with India to set up a military a base in Agaléga. It said that construction work on the island is designed to improve “inadequate infrastructure facilities”. The government also stated that it has no intention of displacing people living on the island. India’s Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs did not respond to our request for comment.
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A remote Mauritian island is being quietly transformed into a military hub for India's navy. That’s what we found using satellite pictures, shipping data, financial documents, and images from a barely accessible island about 1100 km north of Mauritius. The Island of Secrets also shows how the construction project on Agaléga has the potential to uproot the lives of its 300 residents in order to make way for a military facility. Residents worry that what happened on the Mauritian island of Diego Garcia in the 1960s will happen to them. The Mauritian government responded to this film by restating its position that there is “no agreement” with India to set up a military a base in Agaléga. It said that construction work on the island is designed to improve “inadequate infrastructure facilities”. The government also stated that it has no intention of displacing people living on the island. India’s Ministry of Defence and Ministry of External Affairs did not respond to our request for comment.
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- published: 03 Aug 2021
- views: 3871285
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Concerns grow over welfare of asylum seekers trapped on Diego Garcia
The United Nations Refugee Agency has told this programme it's concerned about the welfare of asylum seekers trapped and isolated in a makeshift camp overseen b...
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Around 100 Sri Lankan Tamils have been stranded on the remote Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia for 18 months.
They say they are living in “prison-like conditions”.
Five of the most vulnerable have been sent to Rwanda for treatment after attempting to take their own lives.
Today their lawyers went to the High Court in London to try to stop them being sent back.
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Around 100 Sri Lankan Tamils have been stranded on the remote Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia for 18 months.
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Five of the most vulnerable have been sent to Rwanda for treatment after attempting to take their own lives.
Today their lawyers went to the High Court in London to try to stop them being sent back.
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- published: 24 Mar 2023
- views: 13372
1:19:27
Aprendemos y enseñamos - Pastor Diego García
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- published: 19 Feb 2024
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6:53
Diego Garcia Facts: Seven Things You Didn't Know
Diego Garcia, the militarised island in the middle of the Indian Ocean has gained a fair bit of attention this year since it was claimed that the missing Malays...
Diego Garcia, the militarised island in the middle of the Indian Ocean has gained a fair bit of attention this year since it was claimed that the missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 could have landed there. The grim history of the island was revealed in the 2009 book, 'The Island Of Shame'.
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Diego Garcia is technically part of the UK, located on the content of Asia and part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The US were granted permission to use the island as a military base in 1966 in exchange for cancelling a $14 million British debt for a military hardware purchase. Diego Garcia is now home to around 4,000 military personnel and support staff in 654 buildings.
Diego Garcia is the site of an ancient volcano. However, it has now been reduced to a horseshoe-shaped coral reef, with a perimeter of approximately 40 miles and a maximum elevation of 22 feet. It stretches for 15 miles, north to south, and about 35 miles from tip to tip of its horseshoe shape.
According to the 2009 book 'Island of Shame', when the US Navy took control of Diego Garcia it forcibly removed its 2,000 inhabitants, sending them to Mauritius and the Seychelles, where they were left on the docks, with no money and no housing, to fend for themselves. Prior to their departure their pet dogs were rounded up and gassed, their bodies were burned in front of their eyes.
As well as the network of GPS satellites, there are just five ground antennas the world that assist the operation of the Global Positioning System, and one of those antennas is located on Diego Garcia.
Retired United States Army General Barry McCaffrey twice made claims that Diego Garcia is the site of a secret US prison camp. These rumours could be routed in claims of credible evidence exists supporting allegations that ships serving as black sites have used Diego Garcia as a base. However, in 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US government had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit or been held on Diego Garcia.
The island was a major launch pad for the US attacks on
Afghanistan and Iraq. The island is home to some of the US's most deadly planes, including B-52s, B-1Bs and B-2 bombers. In 2007, the Pentagon granted a $32 million contract to add a submarine base to the island's existing dock.
Conspiracy theorist made wild claims this year, that missing Malaysian flight MH370 was landed on the more than adequate runway of Diego Garcia. A freelance journalist claims to have received a photo via text message from an MH370 passenger calling himself Phillip Wood. Data contained with in the black iPhone photo contained GPS information which placed Wood on the island. The internet was quick to quash these claims offering the more likely explanation that the photo is a fake. The question of whether the plane was landed on the island was asked in a White House press conference, press secretary Jay Carney simply answered "I'll rule that one out."
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Diego Garcia, the militarised island in the middle of the Indian Ocean has gained a fair bit of attention this year since it was claimed that the missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 could have landed there. The grim history of the island was revealed in the 2009 book, 'The Island Of Shame'.
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More About Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia is technically part of the UK, located on the content of Asia and part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The US were granted permission to use the island as a military base in 1966 in exchange for cancelling a $14 million British debt for a military hardware purchase. Diego Garcia is now home to around 4,000 military personnel and support staff in 654 buildings.
Diego Garcia is the site of an ancient volcano. However, it has now been reduced to a horseshoe-shaped coral reef, with a perimeter of approximately 40 miles and a maximum elevation of 22 feet. It stretches for 15 miles, north to south, and about 35 miles from tip to tip of its horseshoe shape.
According to the 2009 book 'Island of Shame', when the US Navy took control of Diego Garcia it forcibly removed its 2,000 inhabitants, sending them to Mauritius and the Seychelles, where they were left on the docks, with no money and no housing, to fend for themselves. Prior to their departure their pet dogs were rounded up and gassed, their bodies were burned in front of their eyes.
As well as the network of GPS satellites, there are just five ground antennas the world that assist the operation of the Global Positioning System, and one of those antennas is located on Diego Garcia.
Retired United States Army General Barry McCaffrey twice made claims that Diego Garcia is the site of a secret US prison camp. These rumours could be routed in claims of credible evidence exists supporting allegations that ships serving as black sites have used Diego Garcia as a base. However, in 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US government had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit or been held on Diego Garcia.
The island was a major launch pad for the US attacks on
Afghanistan and Iraq. The island is home to some of the US's most deadly planes, including B-52s, B-1Bs and B-2 bombers. In 2007, the Pentagon granted a $32 million contract to add a submarine base to the island's existing dock.
Conspiracy theorist made wild claims this year, that missing Malaysian flight MH370 was landed on the more than adequate runway of Diego Garcia. A freelance journalist claims to have received a photo via text message from an MH370 passenger calling himself Phillip Wood. Data contained with in the black iPhone photo contained GPS information which placed Wood on the island. The internet was quick to quash these claims offering the more likely explanation that the photo is a fake. The question of whether the plane was landed on the island was asked in a White House press conference, press secretary Jay Carney simply answered "I'll rule that one out."
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- published: 10 Jul 2014
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