MH 370: Missing Malaysian Airliner

[Drew Phipps]

I suspect that the "motive" behind the kidnapping was the defection of the still unidentified Iranian citizen to a still unidentified "western country." Whether someone did this to prevent the defection, or this is a "witness protection program" to protect the defector, or this is a cassis belli for some aggrieved nation (like China?) to get after those valuable Iranian oil fields, I just don't know.

There would certainly be more than 1 nation's intelligence apparatus capable of carrying this off.