U.S. F-15 fighter jet crashes in Afghanistan - This reminds me of the reports the USSR used to give

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/U_S_F_15_fighter_jet_crashes_in_Afghanistan.html?siteSect=143&sid=10971130&cKey=1247898148000&ty=ti

July 18, 2009 - 6:15 AM U.S. F-15 fighter jet crashes in Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with two crew members on board, the U.S. military said.

The condition of the two crew was not known, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement, adding the crash was not due to hostile action. The crash took place at 3:15 a.m. local time (11:45 p.m. British time on Friday).

"There is an active investigation going on at the site at this time," Air Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Reid Christopherson said by telephone from a U.S. base in Qatar, adding that he was unable to provide further details.

[Orsino]

1. The whole goddamned war is familiar. n/t

[Selatius]

2. If the guerrillas got their hands on SA-14s, there might be some reason to worry.

Of course, I wouldn't think such Russian equipment is too difficult to purchase on today's black market for military arms.

[FarCenter]

5. It would be a good opportunity to test a few SA-14s to make sure they work well

In the Iraq War, there was a M1 Abrams tank destroyed by an "unusual" missile, which may have been someone testing a new design.

[formercia]

3. 3:15 AM local time +mountains everywhere.

bad mix.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

4. Everyone needs to be familiar with this

regarding Afghanistan,,,,,,,,,,


Lowell Thomas was already famous for his run of good luck. Back in 1916 the brash American reporter had been the first journalist to venture into the desolation of the Arabian deserts in search of `the legendary Lawrence of Arabia. But now, with that story and the First World War behind him, Thomas was hungry again. He was looking for new adventures, new heroes, and most of all, new geographical challenges.

He found them all in one country - Afghanistan !

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The Forbidden Kingdom, as it was popularly known in the 1920s, had turned her back on Europe and the West for several decades. Not to be put off, Thomas applied for a tourist visa, planning on writing a few articles about the colorful Pathan tribesmen who inhabited the desolate deserts of the south, and the secretive non-Muslim inhabitants of the mountainous north of Afghanistan. In fact Thomas saw neither. The Afghans were suspicious of strangers, especially an American journalist. They promptly denied his request for access to the fortified mountain kingdom.

What followed was a two-year cat and mouse game between the determined American and the reclusive Afghans. Eventually, in 1927, the government in Kabul did agree to let Thomas enter their country, but only, Thomas learned later after Amir Amanullah Khan, the king of Afghanistan had personally intervened on his behalf.



"Beyond Khyber Pass" is thus Lowell Thomas' story of how he slipped past the infamous Khyber Pass, that door of stone which had refused to open for two years, and made his way into a kingdom which had remained unchanged for more than a thousand years. It is a bold story filled with the people of remote Central Asia and depicting this important cultural crossroads before it was forever changed by the wars of the late 20th century.