Aloha Snackbar!
Posted on 05/20/2024 2:44:35 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Iranian strongman Ebrahim Raisi — aka "the butcher of Tehran" — is dead in a Sunday helicopter crash that his countrymen and women are celebrating, so now would be the perfect time for the New York Times to avoid interviewing the Iranian dissident he tried to have assassinated.
Wait, what?
Raisi was "elected" president in 2021 after decades of coming up through the bloody ranks of Iran's hardcore Shiite Muslim theocracy. He earned the "butcher" moniker for his part on the 1988 "death committee" that quickly sentenced more than 5,000 dissidents to death — and just as quickly had them killed. Dissidents reckon that Raisi is directly responsible for the deaths of around 30,000 Iranians.
Masih Alinejad is a 47-year-old Iranian-born American journalist who has spent the last 20-plus years reporting on Iran's endless human rights abuses, particularly against women. The regime has tried to kill her on multiple occasions, the most recent in 2022. She also avoided a kidnapping plot in 2021.
Farnaz Fassihi is another Iranian-American journalist, but it would be fair to call her a "regime lackey" instead. She's the New York Times United Nations bureau chief and also writes about Iran. As such, whatever else the New York Times reports on Raisi's death, Fassihi doesn't want anyone speaking to Alinejad about it — and she was caught on audio posted to X (formerly Twitter).
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Aloha Snackbar!
Was it the Mossad? Or faulty maintenance? Or just bad weather? We will never know but the result is just as good either way.
Or a helo pilot who never learned how to make an auto-rotation landing?
My guess?
C-FIT.
(...and some stupidity, blended with fog.)
I fly fixed, not copters, but auto- rotating in fog has to be almost impossible.
Islam nations produce really bad pilots. They select them for training on a basis of relatives in power, not ability. This one looks like altimeter wasn’t set to location. Also not an appropriate aircraft for the planned flight. One flies above the weather enroute, not scud running. A fixed wing turbine. Helicopters are not a safe choice for high altitude, max gross weight, operations in mountainous terrain.
Heh, I have heard the term “autorotation” in an aviation context for nearly my whole life, but until I took a helicopter flying lesson, I had absolutely zero idea what that was!
I thought it would be like one of those maple leaf seeds spinning gently to the ground!
When the pilot nosed the helicopter over and dove steeply towards the ground, I realized just how wrong I had been! That was a real surprise for me.
And the guy who is the "face" is not always the guy running the show.
***..is dead in a Sunday helicopter crash that his countrymen and women are celebrating***
And to think, their parents and grandparents rioted for the government he represents.
I always felt the kids and grand kids of those rioters would wish they had left well enough alone back in 1978.
The helicopter crash in southern CA that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and several others was a result of the pilot becoming disoriented in foggy conditions. Probably the same scenario played out with this crash.
More likely 72 demons.
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Well, now Ebrahim can be reunited with allah in hell.
That’s exactly right.
LOL!!! Always a GREAT post.
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