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| Iran helicopter crash killed at least 13-report |
| 2007-02-27 |
| At least 13 soldiers, including two Revolutionary Guards commanders, were killed when an Iranian military helicopter crashed near the border with Turkey on Saturday, Iran's student news agency ISNA reported on Monday. Military officer Hassan Rastgar Panah was quoted by ISNA as saying two commanders, the pilot and 10 other soldiers were killed "on a mission to control the region" in northwest Iran. Iranian media initially reported one commander was killed and eight other people were on the aircraft. Later, some media said the death toll was as high as 14. Iran's official IRNA news agency has said 17 rebels were killed during the mission. Iranian media blamed the crash on bad weather. The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an Iranian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is fighting for Kurdish autonomy in southeast Turkey, claimed it shot down the helicopter. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Heh heh. Good for the brain too OP, keep you young. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-02-27 22:56 |
| #9 Go for it, OP!!! Go for the Record!!!! Shoot the Moon (figuratively, of course). |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-02-27 18:10 |
| #8 You're all wrong - it's my new super-duper, Top Secret ACME battle management and laser offense system. I can sit here in Colorado Springs and shoot down helicopters in Iran, blow up trains in Saudi Arabia, and sink pirate ships off the coast of Somalia - as soon as I master the game console. They're all doomed, doomed I tell ya! Thanks to Haliburton War Games division. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-02-27 16:32 |
| #7 Hopefully it was a Stinger-related weather accident. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-02-27 15:28 |
| #6 We first thought of Baluchistan, but decided the Kurdish areas were "better suited" for our purposes. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - SAM Relocation and Shipping Division 2007-02-27 09:47 |
| #5 I wonder if some of those shoulder fired anti aircraft missle supplied to Iraqi insurgents made their way back to Iranian Kurds??? |
| Posted by: Flomoter Ulolush5791 2007-02-27 09:24 |
| #4 Iran is losing helicopters that are in country faster than the U.S. is in a war zone. If there indeed are ops going on in Iran, it will make for some interesting reading if someone writes a book someday. And one more thing, whoever is in charge of ops in Iran deserves a promotion. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-02-27 08:43 |
| #3 Grom, better to trust prayer - maintenance crews could commit sabotage. Yeah, and probably did; I'm sure of it (are you reading this, Republican Guard?) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-02-27 07:20 |
| #2 Note to IRG: prayer doesn't substitute for maintenance. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-27 06:04 |
| #1 Yeah, bad weather you know - they hit a cloud with a rock inside. |
| Posted by: TZSenator 2007-02-27 01:15 |