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2005-01-31 Iraq-Jordan
RAF Hercules Crash Update
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Posted by Bulldog 2005-01-31 3:55:20 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Good rumor has it that the personnel loss was in the mid-teens. Cause truly not yet determined and under investigation. May their brave souls rest in peace.
Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2005-01-31 4:44:21 AM||   2005-01-31 4:44:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 UPDATE: Ansar al Islam is claiming it hit the low-flying Herc with an anti-tank missile.

One of the crew was Australian - the first Australian death so far in Iraq.

Good rumor has it that the personnel loss was in the mid-teens.

The media here are saying that too, Verlaine.
Posted by Bulldog  2005-01-31 4:59:30 AM||   2005-01-31 4:59:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I have a feeling the Ansar al Islam boys may live to regret this.
Posted by Bulldog  2005-01-31 5:02:39 AM||   2005-01-31 5:02:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A vivid illustration that freedom is never free. May they rest in peace. They have made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country and for which it stands.
Posted by Duke Nukem  2005-01-31 6:36:57 AM||   2005-01-31 6:36:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 One presumes that the Syrians' SAM missile deal with Russia went through without any hitches, then? As expected, the Beeb is conveniently focussing on this story to take the public's gaze away from the success of the Iraqi elections.
Posted by Howard UK 2005-01-31 6:45:40 AM||   2005-01-31 6:45:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I expect a world-wide shortage of Kool Aid is imminent.
Posted by .com 2005-01-31 6:47:13 AM||   2005-01-31 6:47:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 totally agree Bulldog . Am sure the lads at Creden Hill are itching for some payback .
Posted by MacNails  2005-01-31 8:07:04 AM||   2005-01-31 8:07:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 The SAS do a fair amount of training in Norway, do they not? Mullah Krekar, spiritual leader of AAI, has been sponging and recruiting there as an exile since 1991...
Posted by Bulldog  2005-01-31 12:09:03 PM||   2005-01-31 12:09:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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