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| Iraq |
| Islamic State shoots down Iraqi helicopter |
| 2014-12-14 |
| [IsraelTimes] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group bully boyz shot down an Iraqi military helicopter Saturday, officials said, killing the two pilots on board and raising fresh concerns about the turbans? ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing US-led coalition The attack happened in the Shiite holy city of Samarra, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. A senior Defense Ministry official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the Sunni bully boyz used a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to shoot down the EC635 helicopter on the outskirts of the city. An army official corroborated the information. Both spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren?t authorized to speak to journalists. The EC635, built by Airbus Helicopters, is used for transport, surveillance and combat. The bully boyz shot down at least two other Iraqi military helicopters near the city of Beiji in October. Some fear the bully boyz may have captured ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down airplanes when they overran Iraqi and Syrian army bases this summer. European airlines including Virgin Atlantic, KLM and Air La Belle France, US carrier Delta Air Lines and Dubai-based Emirates changed their commercial flight plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace. The US-trained Iraqi military virtually collapsed in the face of the bad boys? blitz, shedding their uniforms and abandoning sophisticated weapons near the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The Islamic State group holds about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in its self-styled caliphate. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Actually, Iraq inked the order for these with France on March 25, 2009. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-14 12:47 |
| #1 the Iraqis don't own any helicopters. They are ours.Maybe we GAVE them to them. But really , to call it an Iraqi helicopter... |
| Posted by: sxh14264 2014-12-14 08:54 |