And I can't bring myself to trust any of those people. Plus they wanted us out of their country like last month.
An excerpt from a CentCom press release on the meeting held today in Nasiriah:
"Before the plane entered Iraq, the crew put on body armor, dumped fuel and began evasive maneuvers in case it encountered groundfire. When we entered the "fence"-the border with Iraq, the plane started defensive maneuvers and dropped down to 200 feet above the desert for the last 30 minutes of the flight. Then, we start weaving. Those who were in the cockpit during landing reported seeing a plane ahead of us-a possible decoy? The pilot had to take a sharp turn upon approach because he was hitting the landing strip wrong. When we dropped on to the runway it felt like we fell out of the sky. Inside the plane, several people threw up into newspapers."
First half of the mostly dry release is here:
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=200304131.txt