Talk:Korean Air Flight 858

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This page really needs more sources - there seems a huge lack of hard evidence. Does anyone have a real source for the information about the explosives used? I havent yet found one. Justinc 09:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I found a New York Times article and an article originally in the Washington Post. The Post article is available directly from the Post online - for a fee, but the actual writer of the article, Peter Maass, has it available for free on his website. I also added the Aviation Safety Network link (which should be on all accidents listed in the ASN database), copyedited the text, and added information from the NYT and WP articles. I also noticed that it said that South Korean officials apprehended the spies - they were actually apprehended by Bahraini officials and the woman was returned to South Korea. (nit, I know, but still.)

One thing I took out was the following:

People who believe the event was a conspiracy perpetrated by someone other than the North Korean government say that the event was engineered by the South Korean authorities for political aims, citing a lack of hard evidence. ^{[citation needed]}

"People" is a bit of what Wikipedia's style manual calls a "weasel word". If we're going to state that somebody believes the South Koreans bombed the aircraft themselves, we need to attribute that to a specific individual or individuals, not to just "people". I think the Washington Post may have printed an article saying that family members called it terrorism, but the article is behind a paywall and all I can read is the first sentence or two. That's not enough (the first sentence could be misleading), and I don't live in the US so I can't get a copy of a clipping from the local library. If we can find something from a reliable source that states exactly who believes it was a conspiracy (other than the creator of that website, who could be one lone crank for all we know from the evidence we have), we should add it back in.

I also added some info on the terrorism angle. We shouldn't assert that an act is terrorism without providing evidence that a third party such as the State Department or the Government of South Korea or whoever considers it terrorism. Stating specifically who believes it's terrorism and providing a reference just removes any possibility that the notion that the bombing was terrorism (and not all bombings are - some are plain murders (the Albert Guay event, for instance) is original thought. --Charlene 20:59, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

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