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 EXCLUSIVE Taliban Think They'll Explode As I Roar Over  Ready ... John with jet From DAVID WILLETTS in Afghanistan   Published: Today   AN RAF hero told yesterday how his squadron strikes terror into the Taliban - with fearsome Tornados. Flight Lieutenant John Pingree and his fellow aces roar low across the ground at 600mph, creating a noise so thunderous "it feels like your ribcage is going to explode". The manoeuvre - seen as "an aggressive show of force" - is so threatening they say it makes fanatics scurry into the hills. John, a navigator and weapons system officer known...

RAF Tornado downed by US missile It is thought a Patriot missile hit the plane An RAF Tornado and its crew are missing after being downed by a US Patriot missile close to the Kuwaiti border.A search for survivors is under way, as is an investigation into how the accident happened. Air Marshal Brian Burridge, commander of British troops in the Gulf, said the Tornado had been hit "obviously by mistake" as it returned from a mission over Iraq. William Farish, the US ambassador to Britain, told the BBC the loss of the plane was "absolutely terrible". It comes...

Just heard this on the radio. Rumsfeld acknowledges a U.S. plane is missing and may have been shot down in Baghdad.