Posted on 10/07/2008 6:15:17 AM PDT by tomnbeverly
US WARPLANE FORCED TO LAND IN IRAN.
okay, didn’t hear the part about 5 people on board.
So Rove wants Bama to win?
Warplane?
Yes, as was stated earlier, it is like a Lear jet similar to the one Rush has. It is a passenger plane used by the AF for VIP travel.
A Falcon
If you need Obama they can just call him like he offered for the financial bail out.
The ChiComs had good cause to stick a thumb in our eye after their embassy was bombed during Clinton’s illegal war of aggression against Serbia.
We’re not at war with Iran and military pilots follow orders. If there’s no standing order to engage Iranian planes and the pilot was at fault he has no choice but to land.
That’s a “warplane?” War sure has changed since I was in. LOL!
you obviously do not “get” the sarcasm of attributing all campaign twists to Rove and using Patton’s quote, as many other freepers do
But thanks anyway for taking time at bat
From BBC News...
US plane 'forced to land in Iran'
Breaking News
A US plane has been forced to land in Iran after violating Iranian territory, the Iranian semi-official Fars news agency has reported.
It said the Falcon aircraft entered Iranian airspace from Turkey, flying at low altitude to avoid radar.
The agency said the plane was detected by Iranian fighter jets, which forced it to land at an undisclosed airport.
Passengers included five senior American generals and three civilians, the report said.
The agency said the group was interrogated at the airport and then allowed to leave after it was realised they had entered unintentionally.
More details to follow.
Well the south side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Leroy Brown
You see Leroy he meant trouble
You see he stand about 6 foot 4
All the downtown ladies called
him “treetop lover”
All the men just call him Sir.
Wow. Not much detail in that Fox story, was there.
I thought she said 5 people?
Anyway, if the plane was “forced down” it was likely unarmed as was the Navy plane China forced down.
If there was more than two people, it wasn’t an F-16.
If there were 5 people it could have been a C-130 (typically they have about 5 crew members)
Either way the crew “was released”.... So, was the plane?
Questions, questions.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian news agency said on Tuesday that a U.S. military aircraft had violated Iranian territory unintentionally and had been forced to land in Iran.
The semi-official Fars News Agency did not say when the incident happened.
It said five senior U.S. military officials had been interrogated at an Iranian airport and released a day later after it became clear the U.S. plane had not entered intentionally.
(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Good that the crew was released. Did they keep the plane?
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