[B2C] United Airlines being awarded a Pentagon contract to forcibly remove Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is nothing more than military satire. The satirical piece is building off the recent negative news of United Airlines forcibly "re-accommodating" one of its passengers from a flight. There is no truth to The Pentagon awarding the airline company a contract to forcibly remove al-Assad from Syria. Where did this satire originate?On April 11, 2017, the military satire web site Duffel Blog published an article saying that the U.S. government had awarded United Airlines a government contract to take out Syria’s president. The article came one day after a controversy involving United Airlines’ forcible removal of a passenger from a flight and the recent missile strike at one of Syria’s bases in response to a chemical weapons attack on Syrian people. You can read the fake story below.
"The Pentagon announced it had awarded a sole-source contract to United Airlines for work related to the forcible removal of President Bashar al-Assad from Syria.
The contract, worth $2.1 billion, tasks the airline company with locating Assad, grabbing him from his seat in the presidential palace, and "dragging him out of Damascus by his arms." The contract also notes that Assad should be "asked several times, politely" to give up his seat of power, though if he refuses, United workers should bloody his nose up a bit, according to the posting at FedBizOpps.
Though US military officials have struggled in recent months with a plan for removing Assad, United Airlines cleared its final hurdle for the military’s request for proposal on Monday, when it ordered police officers to forcibly remove a passenger from a flight that was overbooked."
Original article appears to have come from the 'Duffelblog.'