Posted on 02/12/2005 5:08:49 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
Iraqi nationalists in recent days have gone after the US led coalition aircrafts that can be harmed with Russian made Surface to Air Missiles (SAM) and man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).
On Jan. 27, a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter went down near the Iraqi-Jordanian border, and the next day a U.S. Army OH-58 observation helicopter crashed in Baghdad. On Jan. 30, a British Royal Air Force C-130 went down near the town of Taki while on its way to Balad Air Base from Baghdad International Airport (BIA). Additionally, in a news story, which U.S. Central Command denies, CNN reported Feb. 7 that a U.S. C-130 was fired at by a man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) near Taqadum and a C-17 encountered small-arms fire near BIA. The U.S. C-130 reportedly was not hit, and the C-17 was not damaged significantly.
The series of this Surface to Air Missile attacks by the insurgents suggests that they are trained military personnel, perhaps of the Saddam regime. The SAMs and the MANPADS could be the ones hidden by Saddam or freshly supplied to the insurgents by the Syrians or others. But the sophistication needed to use these equipments tell us that this is not the act of some Judaists who decided to die in Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at indiadaily.com ...
Probably meant "Jihadists" would be my guess....
you would think an Indian journalist would know how to spell that term by now , eh wot?
hahaha -- nice, loan!
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