Post em! And don't go searching your gay porn library like last time. lol
...not if it offends you, honey! *smile*
Yup.
BTW, nice avatar.
''...not if it offends you, honey! *smile*''
lol
Why report? It's funny as hell.
Jason Ditz
March 22, 2011
There was ample coverage of the loss of a US F-15 fighter jet over Libya Tuesday, and it always came with reassurances that the crew was safe. Less safe, however, were a group of Libyan civilians who came to the aid of one of the crew.
That’s because the civilians who met the plane’s weapons officer and offered him fruit juice while he waited to be rescued were attacked by US Marines during the brief ground incursion meant to rescue the crew. Some of the reports suggest the Marines arrived in a V-22 Osprey attack helicopter and opened fire on the crowd with it.
Six Libyan civilians were shot in the attack, including a young boy who local hospital officials say may lose his leg because of the attack. The weapons officer had been found in a sheep field and was met by the civilians, who were backers of the anti-Gadhafi rebellion.
The incident is news not just for the tragic outcome, but because despite the explicit UN prohibition on “occupation troops” being spun as a broad prohibition on ground troops, US Marines were indeed on the ground, in Libya, in a field full of sheep.
*lmao*
The pilot was initially picked up by rebel soldiers, who the Marines reported treated him “with dignity and respect” before handing him over to the troops. It does not appear there was any incident with regards to him. The Marines have yet to comment on the shootings in the recovery of the weapons officer.
The F-15 was flying out of Italy at the time of the crash, and officials are blaming a system malfunction. It is the first aircraft reported lost since the US and France started the Libyan War on Saturday. An F-15E Strike Eagle costs approximately $31 million.
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It exists but it isn't as far as I know an attack platform.YouTube - Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey DemostrationV-22 Osprey attack helicopter. No such animal exists.
The largest fresh water aquifer in the entire region. If it was as developed as the American south-west was before theirs ran dry it could support European elite with (kosher) food goods for decades. And that oil that Italy gets to siphon off for their part of the prize.What the @#$% does Libya have to trade? Goats?
A highway and pipeline system across north Africa would come in real damn handy too.The largest fresh water aquifer in the entire region. If it was as developed as the American south-west was before theirs ran dry it could support European elite with (kosher) food goods for decades. And that oil that Italy gets to siphon off for their part of the prize.
It exists but it isn't as far as I know an attack platform.
I figured as much. It certainly looks like a heavy lift or deployment platform.You are correct. It is a transport platform.
Even less credibility to the article.
One gun mounted on the ramp doesn't make it an attack vehicle.Perhaps it was built for `friendly fire` purposes only?
See `design`.
Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
True, but they have other sources for oil and taking land above the water would mean a few locals could be employed and most of the produce could go to market without having the slush fund exposed too much to the public. If Egypt was already giving them a cut-rate on natural gas then that isn't the only Nation that is forced to do business with them at discount rates .A highway and pipeline system across north Africa would come in real damn handy too.
Terrible journalism (on the part of the author of the first article) if this is true. It's unconfirmed **** like this that causes useless rifts.