Noise? Or signal? Only time will tell! On crashed Air France flight 447, "two names on the passenger list are also on highly-classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to the French Republic." Now, statistically speaking, surely at least a few people were on some government's list for something....

Two guys who worked for an international organization that was trying to stop arms trafficking were also on the plane. I forget the background of why they were in Brazil, but someone was funneling guns to some militant group or another.
Radical Muslims just like us! Who doesn't like a chilled Caipirinha on the beach surrounded by tanned Brazilian bods?
They were probably hedging their bets in case that 72 virgins thing turns out to be more sales pitch than reality.
Wouldn't someone have taken credit by now?
Exactly what I was thinking.
Perhaps it is more terror-causing to be mysterious about it. Suggestive clues with no claims of responsibility. The goal is vague fear.
Not so highly classified anymore! amirite?
I've heard that radical Muslims can only shoot laser-beams out their eyeballs while held in a prison on US soil. So those dudes must've had penknives or shampoo or something.
If all airline passengers were interred at Guantanamo we wouldn't have these tragedies.