Pilots downed?

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British War Plane Possibly Downed by Patriot Missile
VOA News
23 Mar 2003, 09:40 UTC


British officials say a Royal Air Force aircraft reported missing Sunday may have been shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile.

A British military spokesman (Captain Al Lockwood) told reporters the plane may have been downed in the skies above the Kuwaiti border, as it was returning from a mission. The spokesman said evidence suggests the plane may have been hit by a missile battery near the border.

A U.S. military official has confirmed a Patriot missile may have hit the British aircraft near the Kuwaiti border.

The crew of the aircraft is missing. There is no word on the type of aircraft involved, or how many crewmembers were on board.

 

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[MissTaken]

Rumsfield says planes with American soldiers are missing.

General Meyers says all planes, US and British are accounted for.

*shrug*

I am not sure I like this minute to minute war coverage.

Let the powers that be figure out what is happening before reporting...ya know?

 

[MissTaken]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States believes "some" US troops have gone missing in Iraq (news - web sites) and could be held as prisoners of war by the Iraqi military, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealed.




"We believe there are some American soldiers missing," he said Sunday.


Asked whether they were being held as prisoners of war, Rumsfeld replied: "They could be."


Appearing on NBC television's "Meet the Press" program, the secretary reminded Iraq, which has said it will shortly air footage of US POWs, that it had international obligations to respect the rights of prisoners of war.


"Under the Geneva Convention, it's illegal to do things with prisoners of war that are humiliating to those individuals," Rumsfeld said.


"The United States of course avoids showing prisoners of war, we have thousand of Iraqi prisoners that are in POW camps ... but we avoid showing photographs of them."

 

[Rooster]

too early to tell

All we can do is speculate at the moment

 

[MissTaken]

Exactly my point.

This minute to minute stuff doesn't do much but cause confusion.

 

[bknight2602]

Exactly my point.

This minute to minute stuff doesn't do much but cause confusion.

Exactly.

The urge to "beat" the other guys leads to confusion.

Every body in the government doesn't know the facts.

 

[Rooster]

I ususally just make a check between movies ...

I hope all this "extra" coverage --- which means they say the same report over and over -- beating the horse so to speak ....

... I hope it won't mess with the race today.

No .. not to be callous ..... but geeze ...... you just can't sit all day watching news that repeats itself

 

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