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| U.S. Jet Crashes in Iraq (Update) |
| 2006-11-28 |
| ...and a U.S. Air Force jet crashed in Anbar province, a hotbed of the Sunni-Arab insurgency, officials said. Al-Jazeera reported that the pilot was killed. After the F-16CG jet went down, a witness said other U.S. warplanes rushed to the crash site about 20 miles northwest of Baghdad and circled above it. The U.S. military, which released a statement on the crash, did not have any information on the suspected cause or the fate of the pilot. But Al-Jazeera television showed videotape of the wreckage in a field and what appeared to be portions of a tangled parachute nearby, and the broadcaster said the video included scenes of the dead pilot but that they were too graphic to air. One shot showed an Air Force seal that said Air Combat Command. Mohammed Al-Obeidi, who lives in the nearby town of Karmah, said by telephone that he saw the jet flying erratically before it nose-dived and exploded in a field. CNN is saying this morning that USAF has 'DNA samples' from the crash site and will release the test results 'as soon as they have them'. They seemed disappointed that that an earlier report that the bad guys got to the pilot may not be true. Mike |
| Posted by:Mike Kozlowski |
| #3 That would not be a surprise, Mike. |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2006-11-28 15:55 |
| #2 USN, Remember a year or so back when Al-jizz wouldn't show the footage of an Italian hostage being executed because it 'was too graphic', and it turned out later that not only did he fight back ("This is how an Italian dies!"), he may have taken one with him? I have a feeling that Viper driver may have shown them how a United States Air Force fighter pilot dies. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-28 15:14 |
| #1 This sounds like some sort of islamo-doublespeak: since when has anything been 'too graphic' for the towel-heads to air, especially if it involves infidels? this sounds like a case of nothing to show and that the pilot was probably dead from the ejection / crash/ both of the above. God rest his soul. |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2006-11-28 14:02 |