US military plane hit by missile on takeoff from Baghdad

NNN0LHI

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Wed Dec-10-03 10:16 AM
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US military plane hit by missile on takeoff from Baghdad

Edited on Wed Dec-10-03 10:44 AM by NNN0LHI

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031210/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_missile&cid=1514&ncid=1473

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Air Force C-17 transport aircraft was hit by a missile as it took off from Baghdad, but no one was hurt as it landed safely, a US defense official revealed. snip

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U.S.: Plane Probably Hit, Lands in Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20031210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_plane_damaged

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Guerrillas hit a U.S. Air Force transport plane with a surface-to-air missile, causing the engine to explode, a senior Pentagon (news - web sites) source said Wednesday. The plane landed safely.

The C-17 had just lifted off from Baghdad International Airport before dawn Tuesday when the engine exploded, slightly injuring one of the 16 passengers and crew, said U.S. Air Force Capt. Carrie Clear of 447th Air Expeditionary Group, based at the airport. snip

A senior Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the explosion as a direct hit by a ground-fired missile, "like the DHL" incident that damaged a cargo plane departing the airport last month. That plane, too, landed safely.

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UpInArms

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Wed Dec-10-03 10:19 AM
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1. this is getting really ugly

at some point these guys shooting those SAMs are going to take one of the planes full of our military personnel out of the air -

then what shall we do?

Laura will be wretched and Dimson will :cry: alligator tears for his political campaign

we (here are DU) will be furious for the ineptitude and the sheep will bleat "4 more years" and offer up the children in sacrifice to their "gawd"

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PaDUer

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Wed Dec-10-03 11:26 PM
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6. And yet they want

to draft our children....F--- them! Let them get all their military draftees from freerepublic.com

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alittlelark

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Thu Dec-11-03 02:07 AM
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8. disgusted by reality

anyone know the address of an alternative universe I can safely esconce my family in?

OK, maybe I'm too into sci-fi....but wouldn't it be nice....

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Wed Dec-10-03 10:22 AM
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Wed Dec-10-03 10:58 AM
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3. This cannot be so

Just yesterday BushCo officials were all over the airwaves trumpteting the peace and progress in Iraq.

So move along. Nothing to see here.

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Journeyman

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Wed Dec-10-03 11:17 AM
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4. And 1/4 million troops will rotate through that airport. . .

starting early next year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=262063

Los Angeles Times:

U.S. Plans Massive Rotation of Troops

The meticulously organized transfer in Iraq and elsewhere may increase vulnerability

The Pentagon is preparing to rotate a quarter of a million troops into and out of Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan early next year in a massive and risky undertaking that could leave them highly vulnerable to attacks during the changeover.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rotate10dec10,1,2721728.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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Peace_2_Everyone

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Wed Dec-10-03 11:12 PM
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5. big plane!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031210/photos_wl_me_afp/031210155324_aild7v0d_photo0

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BrotherBuzz

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Thu Dec-11-03 01:56 AM
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7. It's a big little plane...

and compared to the C5 Galaxy, it's tiny. Air force people call the C17 the SST (short stubby thing).

C17

VS

C5

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jcc

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Thu Dec-11-03 03:58 AM
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9. I'm kind of glad it happened...

They're all okay and that's good, but it's also good that it happened to a C-17. It's a "bigwig" plane that flies in Rumsy and all his little cronies. Finally they get a taste of what our soldiers go through every day. They get an idea of how fragile the equipment is and how vulnerable every military person in that country is. They are finally getting a taste of the war that they forced 130,000 troops to fight for them. I only wish that one of the bigwigs had been on the damn thing. Now maybe they'll actually do some maintenance to those damn planes. Maybe next they'll send enough reinforced Humvee doors. Perhaps I'm asking too much. Look at how long it took them to get off their asses and fix the body armor problem! Sigh.

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