Lawless Skies: ‘Mystery Plane’ Is Seized in Zambia With Money, Guns and Gold – Egyptian Journalist Investigates the Case – Police Promptly Arrests… the Journalist
To many, this is nothing but a local news story, without relevance to the wider world; a story that takes place in Egypt and Zambia, countries that many in the west would not be able to point out in a map.
However, this is a crazy tale that says a lot about the rampant criminality running unchecked around the world – and NOT just in Africa – and it also speaks volumes about the challenges of trying to do journalism in an environment where one doesn’t know where the state players end, and where the criminal element begins.
Al-Jazeera reported:
“When a mysterious plane was intercepted on August 14 in the Zambian capital,
