"ISIS Kills US Soldiers, Destroys Military Plane In Iraq?" Topic
10 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
Please be courteous toward your fellow TMP members.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the Ultramodern Warfare (2014-present) Message Board
Areas of InterestModern
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Link
Top-Rated Ruleset
Featured Showcase Article
Featured Workbench ArticleAdam gets to paint a cool figure, and then paint his dead counterpart.
Featured Movie Review
|
Please sign in to your membership account, or, if you are not yet a member, please sign up for your free membership account.
Tango01 | 26 Jul 2016 10:04 p.m. PST |
Pentagon Responds To Claims Of Islamic State Attack. "The U.S. military denied reports Monday that Islamic State militants had downed a warplane in Iraq's Anbar province. The terrorist group also known as ISIS claimed it killed all U.S. crewmembers abroad the plane. The plane was allegedly operating near the Ain Al-Asad air base, which is run jointly by Iraq and the Pentagon, according to Sputnik News, a Russian state site. The Defense Department called the claims baseless and said there was no evidence of a missing warplane. The U.S. military carried out 73 airstrikes in Iraq last week under Operation Inherent Resolve. ISIS has brought down planes in the past. Last week, Amaq, an agency linked to the radical militant group, released video footage that showed plane wreckage and parts of a corpse in a military uniform and a white helmet in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based organization that monitors the Syria civil war, said the plane came down near the eastern city of Deir al-Zor…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
Mako11 | 26 Jul 2016 11:04 p.m. PST |
Might have been an allied plane, assuming there are any flying in the region, still. |
Legion 4 | 27 Jul 2016 8:43 a.m. PST |
I have heard nothing about this on the News ? And I have CNN/FOX on almost all day. With all that is going in the US and globally … |
cwlinsj | 27 Jul 2016 9:12 a.m. PST |
according to Sputnik News Original source is Sputnik news… Let's wait for confirmation from a real news source before even bothering to treat this with anything but skepticism. |
Legion 4 | 27 Jul 2016 9:15 a.m. PST |
|
Mako11 | 27 Jul 2016 10:59 a.m. PST |
All they're covering pretty much 24/7 are the conventions, so sadly, a lot of stuff is going unreported, or very under-reported. Then of course, we frequently aren't told the truth, especially when certain impacts from doing that might be felt. Couldn't read the article, since the website script kept freezing my PC, and I couldn't scroll down to read it. Did they mention the type of A/C shot down? Given the downing of various Russian/Syrian aircraft, I wouldn't be at all surprised |
cwlinsj | 27 Jul 2016 11:07 a.m. PST |
Mako, Here's link to the original Sputnik article. It's just drivel. link If a US actually had a warplane shot down, it'd make international news. Check Reuters if you want non-US generated news. BBC used to be decent, but they are almost just a stringer for CNN nowadays. |
Legion 4 | 27 Jul 2016 4:00 p.m. PST |
If it happened it would have been on CNN and FOX … at least … |
SouthernPhantom | 28 Jul 2016 1:22 p.m. PST |
Perhaps a US-supplied Iraqi aircraft, and DAESH wants to embellish the story. |
Mako11 | 29 Jul 2016 9:21 a.m. PST |
Yea, or Jordanian (do they still fly ops?), or other country. Supposedly, we have 68 countries "in the fight", but we never see a listing of them, or what they provide in the way of contributions to the effort – appears to be very little, based upon the results. Who has the spork and paper napkins concession? |
|