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The Grand Turk
Syrian pilot whose plane crashed in Turkey in March arrested
2017-04-08
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
says the Syrian pilot who ejected over Turkey last month has been nabbed
Please don't kill me!
for violating border security and espionage.

Anadolu news agency reported Friday that pilot Mehmet Sufhan, 56, was treated in the southern province of Hatay for a spinal fracture suffered after he ejected from the damaged Syrian plane on March 4. He was found in an exhausted state after a nine-hour search.

Anadolu says he was arrested following his discharge from the hospital.

Syrian opposition military group Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
claimed to have downed the plane as it was bombing the countryside around the northwestern Syrian town of Idlib.

Posted by:Fred

#3  Tiberius chuckled. "Agrippa,
Your grandpa was chewing his slippa!
Not even a strippa
Could help him feel chippa --
His spies were all stymied by HIPAA."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-04-08 22:53  

#2  Releasing his name would have been a HIPAA violation...
Posted by: Steve White   2017-04-08 13:56  

#1  So, he's been in a hospital since March 4 with a spinal fracture, and they just located him?
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-04-08 12:19  

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