Posted on 03/20/2002 10:09:44 AM PST by codebreaker
Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday visted the persian gulf state of Qatar this week and one key topic of discussion is the U.S. Air Force's strategic airbase at Al Adid and its use in further operations against Iraq, according to US officials.
The Al-Adid base in Qatar, a peninsula nation adjacent to Saudia Arabia, is one of the largest secret airbases in the Gulf region.
It has storage facilities for 100 warplanes and a 15,000 foot runway capable of handling the largest U.S. bombers like the B-51 and B-1. Currently, less than two dozen aircraft, mostly Qatari air force jets are based there.
A secret airbase. Wow! Saddam will be caught unaware. Nobody on the planet knows of the secret airbase -- except a few Alqaida spyders deep in cave bunkers in Afghanistan who monitor FR on the World Wide Web and who will soon be targeted through their ISP and consumed by thermobaric spam.
I thought AOL filtered that.
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