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Iraq: Retreating ISIS leaves behind unfinished fighter jet in Mosul
International Business Times ^ | 1/19/2018 | Arkadev Ghoshal

Posted on 01/19/2017 10:23:11 AM PST by llevrok

The Islamic State group — also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) — was seemingly building a fighter jet it intended to use against the Iraqi security forces capturing Mosul from the terrorist group. However, with the forces pushing them back, ISIS has left the unfinished aircraft in Mosul. The fighter jet seems to be one of the many ways in which ISIS was planning to mount an offensive against the US-backed Iraqi security forces. Recently, evidence has surfaced showing that the terrorist group was looking to develop chemical weapons with raw materials at the Mosul University. That ISIS had drones and was using it extensively has been widely known for quite some time now. However, this fighter jet is something that has not been seen before. If it had been operational, ISIS would have been possibly the only the second terrorist group in the world to have had attack capabilities like that through air — the first being the Sri Lanka-based LTTE, which exists no more. (snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.in ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons; Syria
KEYWORDS: f35; isil; isis; terrorism
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1 posted on 01/19/2017 10:23:12 AM PST by llevrok
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To: llevrok

Right. “Fighter jet” my obama! ROTFLMAO!


2 posted on 01/19/2017 10:25:49 AM PST by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: llevrok

It was almost ready to go!

Put some fuel in it and........


3 posted on 01/19/2017 10:26:41 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: llevrok

Looks like Aaron Rodgers could shoot it down with a football. Probably a “kamikaze” weapon.


4 posted on 01/19/2017 10:27:28 AM PST by Gman
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To: llevrok

The wing seems kind of short......


5 posted on 01/19/2017 10:28:19 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: llevrok

What a horrendous excuse for journalism! No evidence at all given of a “fighter jet” no matter how “unfinished”....


6 posted on 01/19/2017 10:28:23 AM PST by Enchante (Hoping the Clintonistas are gone from our public life forever!!)
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To: llevrok
LOL...a "FIGHTER JET"?

The writer of this story needs to choke himself.

7 posted on 01/19/2017 10:28:24 AM PST by SIDENET (My next tagline will be so awesome.)
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To: llevrok
Would be interesting to see what that thing really is.

The wings are set so far back for a two-place side-by-side with an obvious front-mounted engine that the center of gravity would be so far ahead of the center of lift as to make this thing unflyably nose-heavy...

8 posted on 01/19/2017 10:29:17 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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The wing seems kind of short.......

It's all about that thrust

9 posted on 01/19/2017 10:29:37 AM PST by llevrok (je sui cou rouge !)
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To: llevrok

Boeing will be sending a engineering team there to asses the design................


10 posted on 01/19/2017 10:30:11 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: llevrok

Look at the wrinkles in the back.

Fabric.


11 posted on 01/19/2017 10:30:36 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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There’s no ‘jet’ engine.............


12 posted on 01/19/2017 10:31:19 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: llevrok

Look at the can of paint under it.

They went with the High Gloss finish. That makes it faster.


13 posted on 01/19/2017 10:33:26 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Howie66

Well, it could work.


14 posted on 01/19/2017 10:36:30 AM PST by OLDCU
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To: llevrok

Probably just some local’s escape plan to get away from ISIS.


15 posted on 01/19/2017 10:40:06 AM PST by lacrew
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To: llevrok
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16 posted on 01/19/2017 10:40:08 AM PST by ontap
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To: llevrok

Cessna maybe, Fighter jet definitely not. (FAKE NEWS ALERT!)


17 posted on 01/19/2017 10:40:58 AM PST by Garvin (The Fourth Estate is The Fifth Column.)
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To: llevrok

Bump for later


18 posted on 01/19/2017 10:41:31 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: llevrok

Yeah, though I think it is optimistic, a lot of Iraquis talk about a post-ISIS Iraq; so they do seem to be being rolled back there, a lot of car bombs though.


19 posted on 01/19/2017 10:44:32 AM PST by BeadCounter
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Good thing Hitler didn’t have these. We’d be speaking...English.


20 posted on 01/19/2017 10:44:34 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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