[Christian Lupine]

Didn't see this posted anywhere, but it is being reported that Iran's only AWACS and an f-5 fighter crashed into each other during a fly over to commemorate the start of the Iraq-Iran war. Sounds like a Tom Clancy Mossad mission if there ever was one.

http://www.defensene...8...c=AIR&s=TOP

[Tuccy]

No need to go Clancyesque, planes do crash from no apparent reason from time to time, esp. if formation flying etc...

[Christian Lupine]

"Eye witnesses reported that the flaming planes landed on the mausoleum burial site of the Islamic revolution's founder Ruhollah Khomeini, a national shrine."
http://www.debka.com...ne.php?hid=6280


Oh the irony, a formerly Iraqi now Iranian awacs crashes into an Iranian fighter on a flight to commemorate the Iraqi/Iranian war and then crashes into a National Shrine. Wow.

[Arminius]

Christian Lupine, on Wed 23 Sep 2009 1849, said:

"Eye witnesses reported that the flaming planes landed on the mausoleum burial site of the Islamic revolution's founder Ruhollah Khomeini, a national shrine."
http://www.debka.com...ne.php?hid=6280
Oh the irony, a formerly Iraqi now Iranian awacs crashes into an Iranian fighter on a flight to commemorate the Iraqi/Iranian war and then crashes into a National Shrine. Wow.

Hahaha, if we´d seee that on the screen, anybody and his brother would say "Oh NO, that´s RIDICULOUS!"

;-)

Hermann

[Josh]

Is there confrimation from another source? That seems really over the top.

Also, Iran had an AWACS?

[TSJ]

If anybody relies upon what debka says then they might as well consult the national inquirer to see what they say too. :blink:

[crazyinsane105]

Did that AWAC even work? :blink: I doubt the radar and intelligence gathering system on that thing would be of any use in preventing an air attack from either Israel or the US.

[Jeff]

Supposedly it had been upgraded and was functional but who knows what the truth was.

[Kenneth P. Katz]

If Debka reported that my name was Ken Katz, I would insist on checking with some other source. :)

[KingSargent]

Come COME, fellas!!!

OBVIOUSLY the US-built AWACS carried hidden Black Boxes enabling the US to make it crash into any target the US selected...

It's OBVIOUS!! I tell you, OBVIOUS!!!

[Josh]

TSJ, on Wed 23 Sep 2009 2326, said:

If anybody relies upon what debka says then they might as well consult the national inquirer to see what they say too. :blink:

Oh I saw the 'defense news' url and didn't realize. I wouldn't have even commented had I know it was Debka. Might as well be Provda.

[Mistral]

This is the thread over from ACIG.

Link

[medicjim86]

The AP does list an air crash associated with the parade....no type mentioned.

http://hosted.ap.org...EMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Christian Lupine]

Sorry about the unreliable sources, I have never heard of Debka before, thats the interwebs for you.

[Ivanhoe]

KingSargent, on Wed 23 Sep 2009 2334, said:

It's OBVIOUS!! I tell you, OBVIOUS!!!

What's obvious is that the software upgrades installed Windows NT 4.0.

[Luke Y]

Christian Lupine, on Thu 24 Sep 2009 0519, said:

"Eye witnesses reported that the flaming planes landed on the mausoleum burial site of the Islamic revolution's founder Ruhollah Khomeini, a national shrine."
http://www.debka.com...ne.php?hid=6280
Oh the irony, a formerly Iraqi now Iranian awacs crashes into an Iranian fighter on a flight to commemorate the Iraqi/Iranian war and then crashes into a National Shrine. Wow.

And even if it hit the shrine, there is so much construction equipment there you'd be able to fix it ASAP anyway :lol:
I haven't heard anything on the news here aside from there being a crash.

This post has been edited by Luke Y: 05 October 2009 - 0652 AM

[ShotMagnet]

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OBVIOUSLY the US-built AWACS carried hidden Black Boxes enabling the US to make it crash into any target the US selected...

But only if Ken Katz (or whatever his REAL name is) were at the controls.


Shot

[wallaby bob]

[quote name='Josh' date='Thu 24 Sep 2009 0347' post='708342']
Oh I saw the 'defense news' url and didn't realize. I wouldn't have even commented had I know it was Debka. Might as well be Provda.
[/quote

JOSH. Since Pravda= Truth in Russian that MAY make it more reliable than Debka? Pardon my ignorance but what is "Debka:"?

[ShotMagnet]

Debka


Shot

[thekirk]

I'd like to know what Debka's actual signal-to-noise ratio is. I know that a lot of the stuff on there is sheer bombast and disinformation, but there have been a few actual nuggets o' truth, too.

I'd hesitate to use them as a citation in a research paper, but they certainly have pointed the way towards some legitimate sources, in the past.

The world is getting stranger. If you'd have told me when I was a kid that the National Enquirer would one day break a story of national importance that the other, more legitimate, papers were ignoring, I'd have laughed in your face. Now? I watched it happen with the whole John Edwards situation, and I'm finding myself beginning to equate the National Enquirer with major papers, in terms of reliability and accuracy. Scary thought, that. Because, it sure as hell isn't because the National Enquirer upgraded its content...