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2003-08-01 Iraq

U.S. Weapons Teams Find Iraqi Warplanes Buried in Desert

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Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-08-01 5:19:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gives whole new meaning to the term grounded.

Posted by badanov 2003-8-1 7:06:03 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2003-8-1 7:06:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Buried in the sanc.
They are scrap metal now.

Posted by raptor 2003-8-1 7:20:11 AM|| 2003-8-1 7:20:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The sadns around the bases in Soddi are supposedly littered with aircraft, too, from crashes. Were these working planes or the wrecks?

Posted by Chuck 2003-8-1 8:31:51 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-8-1 8:31:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 First, the word sand really seems to give problems.

Second, the motto of the Iraqi Air Force: First Not to Fly

Posted by Chuck 2003-8-1 8:33:14 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-8-1 8:33:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Didn't Iraq send a lot of their jets to Iran before Gulf War I?

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-1 9:25:54 AM|| 2003-8-1 9:25:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not sure whether they'd be scrap metal or not now -- it depends on whether or not they protected the rotating parts from infiltration by sand. Properly prepared, I don't expect being buried under sand would be especially damaging...

Posted by snellenr 2003-8-1 9:42:51 AM|| 2003-8-1 9:42:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 That's a hell of a lot of Saran Wrap and duct tape to cover up a Mig-25. I imagine their burying of planes is proof positive how effective our bombs were at destroying the hardened shelters.

Posted by Dar 2003-8-1 9:54:24 AM|| 2003-8-1 9:54:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 How many WMD's could be hidden in the same amount of space under featurless sand?

Posted by Rutherford 2003-8-1 10:54:27 AM|| 2003-8-1 10:54:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey NMM, embarassing or what? Iraq's weapon of mass disruction turns out to be.....sand.

Posted by john 2003-8-1 11:59:59 AM|| 2003-8-1 11:59:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 NMM asked a reasonable question (Ethyl! The pills!), so to answer: yes, the top line MiGs bugged out to Iran in 1991. The pilots were detained and repatriated to Iraq, but the fighters remained property of the IRI.

Funny how some liberals would remember that, and then put it past the Baathists to transfer their WMD to Syria...

Posted by Brian 2003-8-1 1:06:54 PM|| 2003-8-1 1:06:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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