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2020-01-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran invites American investigators to take part in the probe into PS752 plane incident that killed 176 people on board
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Posted by Fred 2020-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Lemme guess: the black box has been recovered but alas, the data is unreadable.
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-10 01:26||   2020-01-10 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 from the "Iran says Ukrainian plane was on fire, tried to turn back" article:
The report also confirmed that both of the so-called black boxes that contain data and cockpit communications from the plane had been recovered, though they sustained damage and some parts of their memory was lost.

It's like I have psychotic powers or something.
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-10 01:32||   2020-01-10 01:32|| Front Page Top

#3 What's the Persian, er, Arab saying: "Blackface, black box = black day."
Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 01:32||   2020-01-10 01:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Jolson Trudeau needs to prepare for a black day. Get out the shoe polish. Pack up yer troubles in yer ol' kit bag / Smile, smile, smile...
Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 01:34||   2020-01-10 01:34|| Front Page Top

#5 some IRGC squad member had a twitchy finger expecting US retaliation
15 Iranian ballistic missiles; score zero
one Russian rocket; score 176 airline passengers
Russia bears part of blame for supplying missiles to a terrorist nation.
Just as Russia is also responsible for the shoot down of Malaysian Airline Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine.
Posted by boomerc 2020-01-10 02:30||   2020-01-10 02:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Our old Russian friends at it again:

Air Rhodesia Flight 825 was a scheduled passenger flight that was shot down by the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) on 3 September 1978

The weapon that made such attacks feasible for ZIPRA was the Strela-2 shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile launcher, supplied by the Soviet Union from the mid-1970s as part of the Warsaw Pact's materiel support
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-10 05:45||   2020-01-10 05:45|| Front Page Top

#7 #2 - Oh, you do
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-10 05:48||   2020-01-10 05:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Come and investigate. Iran needs more hostages.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-10 07:25||   2020-01-10 07:25|| Front Page Top

#9 We could have saved millions of people if we had been doing drone zaps in Rhodesia back then
As it were someone should have taken out Mgabe when we had the chance
The damage to that region done by him is incalculable
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2020-01-10 08:42||   2020-01-10 08:42|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ As Smith and many others predicted, Rhodesian dividends from Robert Mugabe still pouring in.

Colonials are evil. I thought everyone knew that.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-10 08:48||   2020-01-10 08:48|| Front Page Top

#11 some parts of their memory was lost.

Like they had been cleaned with a cloth hit with a hammer.
Posted by Gomez Ominter3435 2020-01-10 08:50||   2020-01-10 08:50|| Front Page Top

#12 “Iran invites American investigators to take part in the probe be hostages”

FTFY - no charge.
Posted by Barbara 2020-01-10 10:37||   2020-01-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

#13 mercutio beat me to it
Posted by Chris 2020-01-10 10:50||   2020-01-10 10:50|| Front Page Top

#14 some parts of their memory was lost.

Which of course is impossible to know before data is downloaded.

To "invite" US investigators is quite clever. You pretend you have nothing to hide but if US investigators get to the truth they will be expelled and branded as liars. Investigations of course take a LOT of time, so the dust will settle.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-01-10 11:25||   2020-01-10 11:25|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ typical rope-a-dope tactics ... same BS we've seen for over 30 years from these people, and from Saddam as well in his day.

Why does anyone still fall for this BS?
Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 11:31||   2020-01-10 11:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Soleimani gets iced on Jan. 3. Perfunctory "Death to America" chants ensue. A few missiles are launched in the direction U.S. airbases in Iraq--no one is hurt or killed (the U.S. may have been forewarned by the Iraqis). A showy funeral is held with more "Death to America chants (there are 56 people and many more injured at the funeral stampede). The rhetorical war settles down. A few days later a plane embarks from Tehran to Kiev on January 8 and crashes in what looks like a missile strike. Iran, in a move towards chumminess, invites the U.S. to assist in investigation the Tehran crash.

Do things get any weirder than this?
Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-10 11:35||   2020-01-10 11:35|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ It's obviously a ruse. We shouldn't fall for it. Either full transparency, with the investigation conducted by a neutral civilian international aviation body operating with zero restrictions, or we draw our own conclusions based on our and other nations' SIGINT.

But God forbid we go back to Hans Blix-land and acdecade of rope-a-dope bullshit with these liars.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 11:40||   2020-01-10 11:40|| Front Page Top

#18 The Iranian govt sure contained the crime Er accident scene thoroughly. Everyone walking around. And poking through the rubble.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-01-10 11:57||   2020-01-10 11:57|| Front Page Top

#19 "We'd like Scott Ritter, please"

UNSCOM Snark O'The Day
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-10 12:14||   2020-01-10 12:14|| Front Page Top

#20 Iran invites American investigators to take part in the probe

after bulldozing the site...
Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-10 12:35||   2020-01-10 12:35|| Front Page Top

#21 Go get'em Trudeau. Surely you have a mean face in your vanity.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-10 12:40||   2020-01-10 12:40|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ the Black Panther face?
Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 14:03||   2020-01-10 14:03|| Front Page Top

#23 Sorry my Canadian friends...

The Black Prancer
The Masque of Black Beth
The Negromancer
Blackweird
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-10 15:17||   2020-01-10 15:17|| Front Page Top

#24 Braveblack
Black to the Future
BlokeBlack Mount(ie)
Posted by Lex 2020-01-10 15:20||   2020-01-10 15:20|| Front Page Top

#25 Why does anyone still fall for this BS?

Because of the balancing act between greedy politicians, stupid/ignorant voters and virtue signaling?
Posted by gorb 2020-01-10 15:39||   2020-01-10 15:39|| Front Page Top

#26 We know know that Buk and Tor have a 100% success quote when shooting down passenger planes. Update advertisement.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-01-10 16:01||   2020-01-10 16:01|| Front Page Top

#27 Why does anyone still fall for this BS?

..and Epstein hung himself. We have the tapes. They're as good as a blackbox. (so do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-10 17:06||   2020-01-10 17:06|| Front Page Top

#28 The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,

And I have many pretty things to shew when you are there."
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-10 19:09||   2020-01-10 19:09|| Front Page Top

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