Posted on 03/14/2002 4:36:35 PM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom
On February 24, 1996, three light aircraft left Miami on a routine flight. Their missions, to search the waters off the Florida Coast for rafters trying to reach the US shores, and bring them help by guiding the US Coast Guard to their location. That day in February, only one plane would return to its home base in Miami.
Tune in to Radio FreeRepublic this Thursday, March 14, at 9 PM EST, and listen to the actual sounds of a terrorist in action, murdering unarmed American citizens.
Sr. José Basulto, founder of Brothers to the Rescue and pilot of the surviving Cessna, will shed light on the events of that day, and detail how the Clinton administration withheld advanced knowledge of the attack from the humanitarian volunteer group, helping seal the fate of these four courageous flyers.
Radio FreeRepublic, fearless talk radio.
MIG-29: OK, we have it in sight, we have it in sight.
MIG-29: The target is in sight.
MILITARY CONTROL: Go ahead.
MIG-29 The target is in sight.
MILITARY CONTROL: Aircraft in sight.
MIG-29: Is it coming again?
MIG-29: It is a small aircraft, a small aircraft.
MIG-29: It is white, white.
MILITARY CONTROL: Color and Registry of the aircraft?
MILITARY CONTROL: Comrade.
MIG-29: Listen, the registry, too?
MILITARY CONTROL: What type and color?
MIG-29: It is white and blue.
MIG-29: White and blue, at low altitude, a small aircraft.
MIG-29: Give me orders.
MIG-29: Orders!
MIG-29: Listen, authorize me...
MIG-29: If we fly over it, it will complicate things. We are going to fly over it. Since a few boats are approaching there, I am going to fly over it.
MIG-29: Come in, come in.
MIG-29: I have a fix on it, I have a fix on it.
MIG-29: We have a fix on it. Give us authorization.
MIG-29: It is a Cessna 337. That's it, that's it. Give us authorization, f*^k it!
MILITARY CONTROL: Fire.
MIG-29: Give us authorization, f*^k it, we have it.
MILITARY CONTROL: Authorized to destroy.
MIG-29: We copy. We copy.
MILITARY CONTROL: Authorized to destroy.
MIG-29: Understood, I'd already received it. Leave us alone for now.
MILITARY CONTROL: Do not lose it.
MIG-29: Fire one.
MIG-29: We busted his balls! We busted his balls!
MIG-29: Wait, look and see where it fell.
MIG-29: Let's go! Let's go! F*^k, we hit it. F*^k!
MIG-29: Mark the place where we shot it down.
MIG-29: We are above him. This guy's not going to f*^k with us ever again.
MILITARY CONTROL: Congratulations to both of you.
MIG-29: Mark the place.
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MIG-29: We are ascending and are on our way back.
MILITARY CONTROL: Stay there, circling overhead.
MIG-29: Over the target?
MILITARY CONTROL: Correct.
MIG-29: Sh%t, we told you, comrade.
MILITARY CONTROL: Correct, the target is marked.
MIG-29: Go ahead.
MILITARY CONTROL: OK, go up to 3,200, 4,000 meters over the target destroyed and keep a low speed.
MIG-29: Go ahead.
MILITARY CONTROL: I need you to stay...there. Which direction did you fire in?
MIG-29: I have another aircraft in sight.
MIG-29: We have another aircraft.
MILITARY CONTROL: Follow it. Do not lose the other small aircraft.
MIG-29: We have another aircraft in sight. It is in the area where [the first aircraft] went down. It is in the area where it went down.
MIG-29: We have the aircraft in sight.
MILITARY CONTROL: Stay there.
MIG-29: Comrade, it is in the area of the event, where the target went down. They are going to give us authorization.
MIG-29: Listen, the SAR is not necessary. There is nothing left, nothing.
MILITARY CONTROL: Correct, follow the aircraft. You are going to stay over it.
MIG-29: We are over it.
MILITARY CONTROL: Correct...
MIG-29: What for?
MIG-29: Is the other one authorized?
MILITARY CONTROL: Correct.
MIG-29: Great. Allow us to go, Alberto.
MIG-29: Understood; we are going to destroy it now.
MILITARY CONTROL: Do you still have it in sight?
MIG-29: We have it, we have it, we are working. Allow us to work.
MIG-29: The other one is destroyed; the other one is destroyed. Country or death, f*^k it! The other one went down, too.
Somebody please post translations.
Sounds good.
I wish you would have hit Fidel in the ass with that 20 mm....
Doesn't surprise me that Col. Klinkton tacitly (at best) approved this crime.
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