U.S. F-16 Crashes In Iraq
No Word On State Of Pilot; 5 U.S. Troops Die; Gates Visits Baghdad
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The Air Force announcement, which referred to the 12:27 a.m. crash as an accident, did not say where it occurred or what happened to the pilot, the single crew member.
The loss of an F-16, a workhorse warplane in the Iraq war, is a rare event. One crashed last Nov. 27 in the western province of Anbar, killing the pilot.
The jet was deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad Air Base, 50 miles north of Baghdad.
"The cause of the accident is under investigation," said the statement from the Central Command Air Forces, which provided no further details.
In other developments:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit Friday.
Gates told reporters the military wasn't trying to paint an overly optimistic picture of how the war is going.
"It's a very mixed picture," he said when asked whether the military and commanding Gen. David Petraeus were offering realistic assessments of the violence in Baghdad. Since Feb. 14, the military has sent nearly 30,000 more soldiers to Iraq, most of them to Baghdad.
"I have every confidence in General Petraeus and in his ability and willingness to call it as he sees it," Gates said.
Three of the U.S. soldiers, whose deaths were announced Friday by the military, died when a bomb exploded near their vehicle Thursday during operations in Kirkuk province, in northern Iraq. Another soldier was wounded in the blast.
A fourth soldier was killed by small arms fire the same day in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad. And another soldier died Wednesday in a non-combat related incident, which the military said it was investigating.
All were assigned to Task Force Lightning, and their names were withheld pending family notification.
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See all 65 CommentsPosted by deadjester1 at 05:56 PM : Jun 15, 2007 "
I am also with the same opinion. Religions provide many excuses to the people for snatching rights of the others and killing others in the name of religion. Now, for how many times and when will the people come to realise that religion has become the most dangerous game.
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Get your head out of the sand, get informed. Then impeach and JAIL Cheney and Bush for their Crimes, and vote the slimey spineless and complicit Democrats OUT of Congress.
This is better than the movies and we have a front row seat, I only wish the xtians and some other group would do the same here- just blast each other's holy worship spaces into the ground.
Posted by RandalDS at 06:42 PM : Jun 15, 2007
This war is worth fighting for CHENEY's Halliburton.
nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN
EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..
I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.
AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..
DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,for-america@hotmail.com
ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION
they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..
just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..
its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..
they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out
all f***ing muslims should f***ing hang.
solves our problems. until the next issue comes up. then what? there will always be wars, there will always be a murder rate. man is meant to kill his fellow man. we're really not that far removed from our ancestors in terms of civilized accountability for our actions.
i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.
all f***ing muslims should f***ing hang.
solves our problems. until the next issue comes up. then what? there will always be wars, there will always be a murder rate. man is meant to kill his fellow man. we're really not that far removed from our ancestors in terms of civilized accountability for our actions.
i know this though: religion, any religion, christian, jew, muslim, hindu- all of them create separations between human beings and give us excuses to act irrationally. All f***ing religion must f***ing end. That I'll stand by.
nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN
EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..
I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.
AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..
DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,for-america@hotmail.com
ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION
they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..
just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..
its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..
they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out
Re: "How much blood and treasure are willing to be destroyed by the militants until the fighting back is justified. If one was to accept your philosophy of pascifism at all costs, there would be no treasurs or blood left only Allah and his followers."
I can't imagine why you might think that your baseless spewage is relevant to this thread.
I have not laid out any philosophy here.
There is no doubt, however, that the people of Iraq have every right to defend themselves against the brutal and illegal invasion of their country, against collaborators, against privatized Blackwater, Dynecorp, and Wackenhut terrorists for rent, and against make believe 'al-CIA'da-in-Iraq' psy-ops nonsense.
There are no Iraqi terrorists in Iraq, and anyone in a similar situation as the Iraqi people, with any integrity, would resist complicity in such a disgraceful debacle.
So kill all of the jews while you are exterminating the Muslims. Go, get 'em tiger.
Go to hell Bush and Cheney
You are very generous, with the blood and treasure of others.
nJULY 21 2007 IS WHEN AMERICANS WILL BE FREE AGAIN
EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO HELP WITH THIS SHOULD BE TALKING TO ALL MEDIA OUTLETS AND TELLING THEM THAT AMERICANS ARE READY TO TAKE WASHINGTON ON AND ITS NOT A FEW AMERICANS ITMILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT WILL TAKE BACK THERE COUNTRY..
I AM WILLING TO GIVE MY BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK TO WHAT OUR FORFATHERS WANTED.
AM A VET AND AM READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS AMERICAN BOYCOT/COOP IF WE THE PEOPLE DONT DO THIS NOW WE WILL BE GIVENING UP ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND WHAT ALL OUR VET HAVE DIED FOR..
DAVID A BELANGER,VET US ARMY,for-america@hotmail.com
ok so wants to join in on this great american REVOLUTION
they cant kill millions of americans at once so if we charge them all at once we will win and take them out and hang them all..
just like in the old days of the west...hang them from the trees in front of the whitehouse and see how many start telling the truth about what they have done to all us americans..
its time to take all this *** and take our government back now..
they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out
Re: "U.S. F-16 Crashes In Iraq"
Could you please explain why 5 dead U.S. soldiers and a downed U.S. fighter jet, is considered less important than a free add for a diet pill?
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