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

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. Teams Seeking Weapons Find Iraqi Warplanes Buried in Desert
By John J. Lumpkin Associated Press Writer
Published: Aug 1, 2003

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of Iraqi's missing air force has turned up down below.
Search teams, some hunting for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, found dozens of fighter jets from Iraq's air force buried beneath the sands, U.S. officials say.

At least one Cold War-era MiG-25 interceptor was found when searchers saw the tops of its twin tail fins poking up from the sands, said one Pentagon official familiar with the hunt. He said search teams have found several MiG-25s and Su-25 ground attack jets buried at al-Taqqadum air field west of Baghdad.

Iraq's air squadrons were a no-show during the war, and U.S. military officials supposed their pilots stayed grounded because they believed they were overmatched by American and British air power.

Various officials differed in opinion as to whether the buried aircraft could ever fly again. Many of the planes were buried intact with minimal efforts to protect them from the sand. (snip/...)

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAFMQYSTID.html

[revcarol]

1. It's August, and they are reporting CONVENTIONAL ALLOWED

weapons they discovered on APRIL 16?

And planes buried with no effort to protect them from SAND? Even a non-precision lawn mower wouldn't work after this!

And this is so important that PORTER GOSS has to be involved in the publicity?

They must think we are really ignorant. Hey, guys, NO WMD'S!!NO, WE WOULDN'T DIE OF PAPER CUTS OF WMD "PROGRAMS!!"

[soup]

2. Were there plans for them to be resurrected as drones?

hmm...

reminds me of a cartoon I saw a few weeks ago.

'Smoking gun? We haven't even found a staple gun.'

[Ouabache]

10. Must be the planes that would have delivered nukes in 45 minutes

time, no doubt, according to Junior and Poodle.
How long did it take us to dig them up, and fly them into Baghdad International?

[mbperrin]

6. Hey, hey, hey!

Lookie here! These planes must have nukes already loaded, along with a full crew of zombies ready to be activated with the magic word. Dust 'em off, and presto! 45 minutes later, Flying Zombie Nuclear Reconstituted Fighter/Bombers of Death!

Gawd, don't you lissen? They SAID reconstituted! Just like orange juice - squeeze the water out, put the water in!

Uh-oh, gotta go! The voices are calling again! THAT YOU, DICK?

[Stephanie]

7. Cold War-era

These planes are forty years old.

[xxqqqzme]

12. I Believe they do think

we are ignorant! No one can B smarter than squatter....so all the releases R written as if Xplaining 2 the mentally challenged - which squatter is! and we R assumed 2 B! It is very simple once U realize who the reader target is.

[Mal]

14. I am truly hoping

that your use of abbreviations was as a form of irony, to try to make the point that the only people stupid enough to believe Bush are the type of people stupid enough to abuse the English language in such a manner.

[0007]

3. This is really scary stuff, 'eh?

*

[stickdog]

4. Thank God that so many Bush supporters are constantly looking around

down there.

[I AM SPARTACUS]

9. hmm...found something in the sand, justifies Ostrich Reflex...

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. I bet if you parked some planes there for 10 years

They'd look just like that without any burying involved.


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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Isn't this old news?

I seem to remember a story of the token Australian forces finding such planes back in May.

[jamesinca]

11. It is in a way

this is all the progess they have made. It is kinda like a greatest hits album. You have seen and heard them all before, they are just re-relaesing it in a differnt package so you will buy it like it was brand new again. Led Zepplin just released a DVD this summer, it sold very well. Think about it, Led Zepplin it has been 30 years for those guys. This report is similar, but the planes they found this tiem were a recent find in addition to the ones found by the Aussies. This is what I like about the report, they were buried in the most coalition populated place and they were just now found.

[Mal]

13. Hey!

"...token Australian forces..."
As a citizen of the brown-nosing, 'me-too'ing nation concerned, our forces resemble that remark!