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Paks say groundfire on plane was a brick kiln. Really.
Pakistan's top military spokesman said on Thursday that the pilot of the plane had mistakenly reported gunfire after his aircraft sensors alerted him to heat from a brick kiln. "No firing took place. That was an erroneous judgement by the pilot after his plane passed over a brick kiln," said Major-General Rashid Qureshi. Police said on Tuesday they had arrested eight people in connection with the incident in Jacobabad.
That statement raises two fairly important questions:
Who the hell did you arrest? And why?
Was this the standard 2-barreled optically sighted 23-mm brick kiln, or was it the more sophisticated 4-barreled radar controlled self-propelled version?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-02-28 |
