U.A.E.’s first female fighter pilot dropped bombs on the Islamic State

[Kaleva]

Source: Washington Post

"Maj. Mariam al-Mansouri, the first female fighter pilot in the history of the United Arab Emirates, led the the Gulf state's bombing raids over Syria this week. Photos of al-Mansouri, beaming from her cockpit, that were released by the country's state news agency have taken social media by storm."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/25/u-a-e-s-first-female-fighter-pilot-dropped-bombs-on-the-islamic-state/

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I think this is very newsworthy as women in a military leadership position in a Middle Eastern nation are extremely rare.

[samsingh]

1. agreed

[jonjensen]

2. was she wearing a burka?

an oxygen mask in stead of a face mask?

[mcar]

3. She was in uniform

Look it up.

[Blue State Bandit]

4. Double wahmy! Dead, and no virgins!

ISIS fighters terrified of being killed by female troops

[7962]

13. And that story IS true. Another thread claimed it wasnt.

Simply because the story was from the NY Post

[irisblue]

5. good....

let them be very afraid of losing their 'reward'

[Schema Thing]

6. hah! The ISIS lads are especially afraid of being killed by a woman

according to a story circulating recently regarding the female Kurdish forces.

[Brigid]

7. If she scores a direct hit . . .

Do the ISIS psychos she kills not get their 72 virgins?

[mahannah]

8. Regardless to gender, we should not be doing this.

[EX500rider]

16. What are ISIS too nice of guys to bomb?

[Baclava]

9. Woooooooooooooo.........I called it!

So why don't we tell them we are using all female pilots to bomb them?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=900459

[EX500rider]

11. You Go Girl!

[rollin74]

18. I like that A LOT

[reddread]

22. easily the sickest crap ive seen

mental health much?

[EX500rider]

27. What are u going on about?

[Threedifferentones]

28. Maybe the action movie one liner in reference to actual deaths?

Have a nice day? Ya, this time the victims of the bombing basically deserve it. Assuming she didn't hit anything non-ISIS by mistake. Have a nice day? Alright there Bruce Willis...

[EX500rider]

30. Some of us don't cry over the death of homicidal manics on a rampage.

[Kaleva]

23. Lol!

[reddread]

12. absolutely disgusting

do real people get behind this fiction and propaganda?

[7962]

14. I'm sure you have proof that its untrue? Or you forget the sarcasm thingy?

Its no secret that there are female pilots in the ME

[reddread]

15. only the trajectory of contemporary history

dont let it interfere with your fun.

[7962]

24. Yeah, I guess we should just let 'em keep killing whoever they want.

they're not doing it on OUR streets, so who gives a shit if they behead children and rape women. We shouldnt fight that, especially using a female which they hate even more.
I dont think its "fun". Not at all. But evil such as Isis has no place.

[EX500rider]

17. A real UAE female pilot dropped some bombs on ISIL, no fiction at all.

[reddread]

19. the why may be

female makes killing a tastier event, then?

[GGJohn]

26. Not a tastier event,

just a form of payback for their brutality towards women, like that female Iraqi human rights lawyer that ISIL kidnapped, tortured and publicly executed in Mosul yesterday, so if we find something ironic and you don't like it, too bad.

[GGJohn]

25. Do you have links or proof that this isn't true?

[quadrature]

20. misleading story. pilots never see the target

pilots never see the target.

they fly at 30k feet or so to a
pre-determined point 20 miles from the target
and let the bombs go.

(somebody on the ground does the rest.)

how much talent does that take?

the plane does not really need a pilot,
sorta a 'jobs program' kind of thing

[reddread]

21. not to mention vice versa

garbage. propaganda.
some folks need a soup spoon or a ladle for it.
tasty stuff I gather.

[EX500rider]

31. "misleading story. pilots never see the target"

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Where in the story did it claim she got "eye-to-eye" with them?

I think most of us know how modern bombing works.

[Sunlei]

29. yes, the UAE pilots did the strikes on the moble refinaries. lot less income for IS & gas for them.

Not many gas stations out in the Syria remote areas.

[jmowreader]

32. She made major before the age of 35? Now THAT's impressive!