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Iran’s top military commanders die in plane crash -(detailed rank and file info)
iran focus ^ | 1/6/06 | na

Posted on 01/09/2006 9:27:51 AM PST by Flavius

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To: Mount Athos
It was also an Islamic Republic Air Force plane, but a C130. 94 people died, mostly journalists.

Do we use old C130's to carry OUR MSM journalists? (ahem)

41 posted on 01/09/2006 10:10:14 AM PST by llevrok (Chutzpah, with salsa on the side.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
interesting!

I'm not usually a 'black helicopter' type, but I did find it odd how evasive they have been to the occupants of the Blackhawk. The last I had heard was it was a few real military with some unidentified civilians. It's get's curious if the civilians were CIA operators.
42 posted on 01/09/2006 10:14:46 AM PST by Daus
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To: brothers4thID
According to Michael Ledeen, National Review Online:

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, although probably in his sixties, is said to have serious liver cancer, and is not expected to survive the next year.

Source and Link: Regime Change Iran Blog

43 posted on 01/09/2006 10:15:23 AM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Flavius

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre


44 posted on 01/09/2006 10:18:17 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: doc30
Why do I get the feeling either Israeli or CIA black ops types had a hand in this?

I doubt it. If we wanted to take out their aircraft, you'd see their skies swept clear -- not just one crash. Iranian incompetence is a far more likely explanation.

45 posted on 01/09/2006 10:22:53 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: llevrok
I don't think the age of the aircraft is a problem, as much as bad maintenance.

I'd gladly fly on older aircraft (like an older C-130, or even a C-47) if I felt it had been well maintained.

But I'd worry about getting on a new aircraft if it was maintained and operated by an insane Islamic government.

46 posted on 01/09/2006 10:25:59 AM PST by 68skylark
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To: doc30

Wasn't there also a recent plane crash into a building in Iran?


47 posted on 01/09/2006 10:33:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: 68skylark
I agree.

The C130 is a legend (like the DC3, Super Con, Warthog, B52). Well maintained, they are like the Energizer bunny. They just keep on going and going and....

48 posted on 01/09/2006 10:35:38 AM PST by llevrok (Chutzpah, with salsa on the side.)
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To: Mount Athos

Mostly journalists...sounds like Usama might have lost some of his photographers who report to al jazerra in that crash.


49 posted on 01/09/2006 10:37:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Flavius

Oopsie.


50 posted on 01/09/2006 10:37:51 AM PST by eyespysomething (This space intentionally left blank......oh crud)
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To: doc30

I suppose it's possible the crash was caused by CIA lightning.


51 posted on 01/09/2006 10:39:15 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: 68skylark

I'm guessing sabotage. All it takes is one.


52 posted on 01/09/2006 10:39:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: SittinYonder

Interesting theories on this thread.


53 posted on 01/09/2006 10:40:26 AM PST by eyespysomething (This space intentionally left blank......oh crud)
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To: Flavius

Truly unfortunate 'accident'.


54 posted on 01/09/2006 10:41:54 AM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: doc30
Why do I get the feeling either Israeli or CIA black ops types had a hand in this?

Its just as likely a little 'house cleaning' by the new Iranian President to insure his own radicals are in place in high military positions.

55 posted on 01/09/2006 10:41:55 AM PST by Dr._Joseph_Warren
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To: popdonnelly

Somewhere, in the back of the room, Mike Espy is waving both hands and nodding.


56 posted on 01/09/2006 10:48:44 AM PST by FreedomFarmer (Beyond the sidewalks, past the pavement, in the real America.)
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To: HOTTIEBOY
OK thats all BS. Actually I don't know a damn thing about aviation.

ROFLMAO! Your theories absolutely correspond with my theories and I too don't know anything about aviation.

57 posted on 01/09/2006 10:51:37 AM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: FreedomFarmer

Ron Brown, too.


58 posted on 01/09/2006 10:53:05 AM PST by FreedomFarmer (Beyond the sidewalks, past the pavement, in the real America.)
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To: Mount Athos

"94 people died, mostly journalists. They were being flown to cover a special military exercise, to boast of their preparedness for war."


MMMMNNNNNNNN! ! ! !

The smell of burnt presstitute in the morning.


59 posted on 01/09/2006 10:59:28 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: Flavius

It's fair. They want to decapitate infidels; their military leadership gets decapitated.

Allahu fubar! NO virgins?

Yes, we have no virgins, today! Allah bin Satan is running low, so has to conserve.



60 posted on 01/09/2006 11:44:43 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
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