Israeli fighter jets confront Tony Blair's plane

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Telegraph - UK

Israeli fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept an executive jet carrying Tony Blair after it failed to identify itself as a friendly aircraft.

It was only after the two warplanes had taken up an attack position to the rear of Mr Blair's jet that his aircrew used the radio to explain who they were and who they had on board.

Mr Blair, who has served for eleven months as international envoy for Palestinian development, was en route to Israel from a World Economic Forum meeting at Sharm el Sheikh in neighbouring Egypt early on Wednesday.


Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/2007245/Israeli-fighter-jets-confront-Tony-Blair's-plane.html

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Oh the irony of it.

edit : BBC News link here :

Aircrew used the radio to explain who they were after the two warplanes adopted an attack position, prompting them to peel off and return to base.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7415915.stm

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Poodle at 12 O'Clock...

:rofl:

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. HAHAHA That's the funniest thing I've heard all day

Thanks!!

:toast:

[neverforget]

4. Wouldn't be much of a dogfight.....

[Rhiannon12866]

12. ...

:rofl:

[Indenturedebtor]

3. LOL

And somehow we didn't have a response on 9/11. How conveeeeeeenient.

[raystorm7]

5. How soo True my friend :p

[ohio2007]

6. If it happened off the coast of Venezuela,

Hugo would have launched into a tirade about border violations and summoned ambassadors for explanations. But then again, his air force is nothing but barnstormers compared to the IAF

[gulfcoastliberal]

7. Huh?

What does this story have to do with a US military flight violating Venezuelan airspace? Wrong hemisphere, amigo.

:crazy:

[Nihil]

8. You're looking for relevance?

With *that* poster?

That's almost as silly as expecting truth or facts!
:crazy:

[ohio2007]

10. wooosh, right over BOTH your mellons

;)

[legin]

9. Mmmmm...

Maybe a shot across the bows for someone who isn't behaving quite how he should be (which would be the first time).

It's not as though the israeli's havn't bumped off british politicians before (1944)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Edward_Guinness,_1st_Baron_Moyne

[ohio2007]

11. I didn't know Israel was a state in 1944

LOL

you mean zionists

[Indenturedebtor]

13. Want some tinfoil?

You can make a lovely hat with it.