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2005-05-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

New Airport Sparks Iran-British Diplomatic Row

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-02 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I only have 3 words for you, runway denial munitions.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-02 12:57:59 AM|| 2005-05-02 12:57:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Previous Rantburg assessments of IKIA functionality available here. Perhaps Airbus could use it to practice "touch and go" landings for the new A380.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-05-02 2:17:58 AM|| 2005-05-02 2:17:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmmm. Looking at the pic, I have to say that they don't look like civil engineers.

Frank? AP? Whaddya think? Look like the folks you work with in your engineering projects?

Given his record, I don't think trusting Allan would be such a hot idea.

Posted by .com 2005-05-02 2:31:40 AM|| 2005-05-02 2:31:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The airport is probably serviceable for daylight landings in good weather.

They might get France and Russia to make some symbolic landings with only military and govt personnel as passengers.

Posted by mhw 2005-05-02 11:03:50 AM|| 2005-05-02 11:03:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 the hardhats are a little tightly wound IMHO for them to be civil engineers. Where are the pocket protectors? Poseurs

Posted by Frank G 2005-05-02 11:14:22 AM|| 2005-05-02 11:14:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 We have some, um, interesting clients up here, too. We are an interesting engineering firm, too. However, weird and off the wall, we are not flakey. The fellows in the pic are flakey with a great deal of money. Let them find an engineering firm and country that will ~~kiss their collective asses~~ be a better mesh, for instance, Frawnce.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-05-02 11:29:02 AM|| 2005-05-02 11:29:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 we should ... not allow any British nationals to enter our country and we should naturally cut economic ties with that country

because we're gonna be in deep kimchee soon and this way we can blog THEM off and save face before they drop us

Posted by too true 2005-05-02 1:39:53 PM|| 2005-05-02 1:39:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hard-line politicians... focused their ire on an alleged request by London that the name of the airport, dedicated to the founding father of the 1979 revolution Ayatollah Khomeini, be changed.

How about they change it to "Dead Maniac Ripped Out Of His Coffin By His Psychopathic Followers International Airport"?
Still the funniest funeral I have ever seen...

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-02 1:49:29 PM|| 2005-05-02 1:49:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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