ISIS in Jets for First Time, US Reportedly Trains Rebel Pilots

INN ^ | 10/17/2014, 1:59 PM | Ari Yashar

[Olog-hai]

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed on Friday that the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has begun training pilots on three captured fighter jets, relying on the knowledge of Iraqi pilots who have joined the group.

Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the monitoring group, said witnesses in northern Syria have seen the group flying the three MiG 21 or MiG 23 model jets above the al-Jarrah airbase east of Aleppo, in the first instance of ISIS going airborne, reports Reuters. […]

ISIS has captured several fighter jets during its conquest of Syria and Iraq. In August it captured several MiGs when it took Tabqa airbase in northern Syria from President Bashar Assad’s forces.

Meanwhile the US, which has been leading an international coalition in conducting airstrikes against ISIS, was also training locals to fly fighter jets according to Lebanese reports in Arabic. …

[WayneS]

I’ll bet they’re not being taught how to land.

[Red Badger]

Let us pray that they have a few ‘hard landings’............................

[dragnet2]

The ISIS Air-force?

Is this the latest big threat?

Are these people joking?

[Parley Baer]

Should not be hard to take these planes out.

[Olog-hai]

On top of soft targets?

I’d prefer that they explode in mid-air.

[Sasparilla]

And, with snoop satellites that can read the brand written on your cellphone from 22,000 miles, the military doesnt know where the 3 aircraft are parked?

[Olog-hai]

When Obama said that al-Qa’eda was “on the run”, he never said which direction.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah..

[InsidiousMongo]

One F-22 can take care of this with no problem other than burning up some AMRAAMs in the inventory.

[wjcsux]

And, with snoop satellites that can read the brand written on your cellphone from 22,000 miles, the military doesnt know where the 3 aircraft are parked?

That's crazy talk! The snoop satellites are up there to look for Tea Party, military veterans and other terrorist groups.

[dragnet2]

And, with snoop satellites that can read the brand written on your cellphone from 22,000 miles, the military doesn't know where the 3 aircraft are parked?

Yeah, but what about their fleets of Toyota trucks with WWII anti aircraft guns bolted to the truck beds?

What about that???

We better be ready...

[jumpingcholla34]

So they have three Migs? I wonder how many will still be operational after a few more hours flying time? I doubt that the quality of maintenance and parts availability are anything to write home about.

Even if they do fly, I wouldn't want to be the sorry bastard who takes one of those old Migs up against some American fighter jock.

[Hatteras]

Two things come to mind...

"The West behaves in the Islamic world like a monkey with a hand grenade." -Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin

and...

Be careful of whom you provide weapons

[Psalm 73]

They can fly 'em, but they can't maintain them.
Not stereotyping here, but middle-eastern men are notoriously lazy about system maintenance, (which is why they love AKs - shake out the dust and keep going...).

[Olog-hai]

The former is the same entity that’s helping Iran go nuclear.

[Olog-hai]

To them, it’s just one oversized suicide bomb. They won’t worry about maintenance while being sped towards their 72 virgins.

[MrB]

If they’re “allowed” to take them out...

[Lurker]

What did they think was going to happen?

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Well it just isn’t fair that we have jets and they don’t. This will fix that. (Whatdayabet those 3 jets are scrap metal by the end of the week).