Did this really happen?

[csw77]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/01/1059480557364.html

Someone told me that there were Iraqi MiG's Buried in the sand in Iraq and I had heard nothing about it and did some research and this was all I could really find. If this was true why didn't the US media report it?

[JanMichael]

1. This non event was report some 7 months ago.

Or whatever August would be...

It's not a shock, is it?

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Why didn't the US press report it?

Probably because they couldn't spin a couple of rusted out migs buried in a sand dune as being WMD.

[JanMichael]

6. It did. It didn't last long because every country gets to have planes.

It's a non-story:shrug:

[Yupster]

2. True, but why a big deal?

I guess they figured burying them gave them some hope of keeping them. Flying them was suicide. They were hardly a threat to anyone.

[csw77]

4. No, it's not a shock

I just don't recall ever hearing a thing about it. I thought it was false though because * wasn't going around saying crap like if they were hiding planes then they *must* be hiding those wmd's too.

[alcuno]

9. Welcome to DU, csw77.

For some reason, I think this goes back to the 1991 war. Iraq lost a lot of planes and with the no fly zone, they probably thought they were best buried in order to hide them from the Brits and the Americans. They're just planes.

[mrdmk]

5. Yes

The plane was first developed in 1967 and no major update to it since 1991 (At least to those planes). The plane is a high altitude interceptor, mainly used for intercontinental dog fighting. During the First Gulf War the collation quickly attain air superiority and a lot of Iraq’s planes were grounded just so they did not loose any more. Those planes have been under the sand for a long time.

[cosmicaug]

7. The planes, the planes!

csw77 wrote:

Someone told me that there were Iraqi MiG's Buried in the sand in Iraq and I had heard nothing about it and did some research and this was all I could really find. If this was true why didn't the US media report it?

Yup, it's true. As for the rest, the link where I saw that originally reported was from the U.S. media. See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93483,00.html

I do not think that one of the reasons Bush gave for the attack on Iraq was their buried figher jet threat, however.

[mrdmk]

8. Airplanes need parts

How could Mr. Bush Jr. claim to be a pilot if he did not know this? Especially very fast planes!