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| Iraq |
| Islamic State says shot down Iraqi fighter plane |
| 2015-06-18 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... said on Thursday it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province. It was not immediately possible to confirm the claim made on one of Islamic State's Twitter accounts. A member of an anti-Islamic State Sunni force called Sahwa (Awakening) said an Iraqi fighter jet, a Russian-made Su-25, was seen in flames as it crashed after being shot down north of Ramadi. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 ergo, New F-16s to be delivered. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-06-18 23:41 |
| #2 Only thing worse than Russian maintenance - Iranian maintenance. It's likely that the Su-25 was one of Saddam's jets that fled to Iran in 1991. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Crairong2940 2015-06-18 15:34 |
| #1 Could've just been inshallah* maintenance as well. * Or the usual Russian high-standards of refurbishment - videos showing the condition of the supposed export aircraft weren't impressive. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-06-18 12:34 |