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Plane Shot Down Over Rebel-Held City on Libya
Fox News ^ | March 19, 2011 | | Associated Press

Posted on 03/19/2011 12:53:21 AM PDT by winstonwolf33

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To: winstonwolf33
FoxNews reported that rebels shot down a plane that was bombing them.

From that statement, it sounds like Qadhafi Duck has lost one of his jets...

41 posted on 03/19/2011 3:01:18 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- are the values that time has proven them to work)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Nuke the place from orbit..its the only way to be sure.


42 posted on 03/19/2011 3:02:32 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: fatima

“Who are the rebels?”

And why, exactly, do we want to help them?


43 posted on 03/19/2011 3:04:27 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: org.whodat
Yes, a plane did go down sometime somewhere, that is for sure.

According to the BBC reporter, it went down "an hour ago" and it went down "west of the city (Benghazi)".

Do you think he made it up?? Skepticism of the media has it limits, y'know. Did you even click on the link below the photo? Maybe you missed it.

44 posted on 03/19/2011 3:09:49 AM PDT by winstonwolf33
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To: org.whodat

So you make counterfeit documents?


45 posted on 03/19/2011 3:34:48 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: janetjanet998

The rebels have aircraft?? Huh?? And they got it from who?? where??


46 posted on 03/19/2011 3:35:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RaceBannon
I think only India has the MiG-27 aside from Russia, and Libya's air force had quite a few MiG-23s -- lately using them in ground attacks against the rebels.

MiG-27 is a fairly uncommon plane.

47 posted on 03/19/2011 3:45:27 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Sacajaweau

yes they have a few that defected.....one attack daffys boats a few days ago

http://dailybail.com/home/rebel-mig-23s-sink-gaddafi-ships-off-libyan-coast.html


48 posted on 03/19/2011 4:01:24 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Sacajaweau

yes they have a few that defected.....one attack daffys boats a few days ago

http://dailybail.com/home/rebel-mig-23s-sink-gaddafi-ships-off-libyan-coast.html


49 posted on 03/19/2011 4:01:36 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

that’s an easy one, cause they want to establish a caliphate in the middle east, and we are all for religious freedom and expression.


50 posted on 03/19/2011 4:02:36 AM PDT by Hypo2
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To: Hypo2

Wonder how “rebels” got their own aircraft?


51 posted on 03/19/2011 4:12:58 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: b4its2late

Using the standards applied to former President Bush, does this action make the great leader who won the Nobel Peace prize, nobama, a war criminal? I mean, invading a sovereign country and all. Doesn’t Congress have to approve this kind of stuff? And why are we helping these rebels? Doesn’t Gadhafi have a “right” to fight the rebels? nobama is such a feckless, petulant war monger.


52 posted on 03/19/2011 4:27:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: RaceBannon

Libya doesn’t operate MiG-27. They operate MiG-23BNs. The BN has the drooped nose of the MiG-27 variant.

Conflicting reports on various news agencies. Some are claiming that it was a rebel operated MiG-23 shot down by Gadaffi forces. I’ve seen video evidence from a week ago of several MiG-23BNs in rebel hands.


53 posted on 03/19/2011 4:40:09 AM PDT by Tommyjo
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To: Sacajaweau

They have captured Libyan air assets. They were flying captured Hind helicopters last week. Footage was shown of them repainting the Hinds in rebel markings. Footage also exists of rebels taking over some of the Libyan bases with several ground attack variant MiG-23BNs. So yes they do have access to aircraft.


54 posted on 03/19/2011 4:45:41 AM PDT by Tommyjo
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Rebels are likely Muslim Brotherhood or Al Quada fanatics all of which are worse than the nutbar they are trying to force out.


55 posted on 03/19/2011 4:48:41 AM PDT by snidely whiplash III (Islam is the bomb!)
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To: tsowellfan

Congress approved the Iraq war. Both times.


56 posted on 03/19/2011 4:55:01 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Sulzberger Family Motto: Trois generations d'imbeciles, assez)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Egypt is supposedly smuggling weapons into the rebels.

I've been thinking about the Egyptians. IIRC, time was, maybe before Khaddafi's time when Naser was in charge in Egypt, he had some designs on the Cyrenaican region of Libya. If I was in charge of the Egyptian military right now, I'd find it hard not to think of how popular I'd be to take a nice drive over to Brenghazi with some of those M1A2's I have.

57 posted on 03/19/2011 5:00:48 AM PDT by Heatseeker (Elizabeth Cheney for President)
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To: winstonwolf33
It beats me how in a very short period of time, the rebels...who are the glorious shirtless ones, the shoeless ones, the freedom fighters, the epitomes of the oppressed and disenfranchised.....suddenly possess small arms, large arms, sophisticated arms, men-at-arms, fighter planes, fighter pilots, seemingly-plenty of trucks and ammo.....

Where is all this stuff coming from? From where is it being shipped or flown into the rebels territories and hands? Where's our U.S. intelligence telling us these facts so that we know who the rebels really are and from where they're getting supplies and the means for combat.

The Obama administration is actually telling us nothing despite the Pretender's torrents of meaningless, pretend-hard-line words. Our elected representatives obviously are being kept out of the loop regarding approval of a shooting war he's apparantly pulling us into under the cover of the U.N.

We know Moomar G'Daffy is on first, but who are the well-supplied rag-tags that are on second? Who's backing them, who's supplying them, who and what is this unidentified rebel "army" that we're supposed to hook up with and die for on its behalf?.....well, I could rant and rave on, but you get my drift.

Leni

58 posted on 03/19/2011 5:01:13 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Obama....you'll have to pry my incandescent lightbulbs from my cold, dead fingers!)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Thank you. I KNEW someone here would pin down the type of aircraft before anyone on the “news” did.


59 posted on 03/19/2011 5:11:19 AM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: winstonwolf33

No I said it went down somewhere some time.


60 posted on 03/19/2011 5:17:36 AM PDT by org.whodat
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