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originally posted by: DecoyTroy
a reply to: thesmokingman
Do you have any other links with the source material, or could you quote the source material in your post? I am unable to access the link you posted on my work computer, and I would really love to read it.
originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
It's difficult to give any credence to the claims and it comes across as more of a speculative theory in the article.
That said, could ISIS bring an F-16 down with the weapons in their possession? I would doubt it, unless they have been handed such weapons by NATO. Maybe to use on Syrian jets?
If this was the case though, would the U.S run these sorties if they knew they had them?
So, maybe the Saudis or Israel have provided the means?
originally posted by: abe froman
You guys have got to be kidding me. I can't believe how many people are debating the merits of what is admittedly a MADE UP STORY.
Let's all make up our own stories and fairy tales and tell them to each other and pat ourselves on the back.
Who cares if it's true as long as it's what we want to hear?
Who needs truth when you can just make up whatever fits what you want to believe? Then you and the rest of your ilk can lie each other up until it becomes your truth.
I seriously want to vomit over how far some will go to make this the fault of the US and/or Israel.
Every single time some extremist murders innocent people the same cockroaches come crawling out of the wood work to tell us it was really the US/Israel behind it.
originally posted by: abe froman
You guys have got to be kidding me. I can't believe how many people are debating the merits of what is admittedly a MADE UP STORY.
Let's all make up our own stories and fairy tales and tell them to each other and pat ourselves on the back.
Who cares if it's true as long as it's what we want to hear?
Who needs truth when you can just make up whatever fits what you want to believe? Then you and the rest of your ilk can lie each other up until it becomes your truth.
I seriously want to vomit over how far some will go to make this the fault of the US and/or Israel.
Every single time some extremist murders innocent people the same cockroaches come crawling out of the wood work to tell us it was really the US/Israel behind it.
originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: thesmokingman
Has it occurred to you America doesn't need to fly a false flag, to meet its objectives?
there have been reports of a lot of up to date manpads falling in ISIS' hands. Intelligence networks have been getting their panties in a twist about it. Now whether they were given to them or they were stolen from Syrian arms dumps is the big question. So yeah they do have that ability.
originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
It's difficult to give any credence to the claims and it comes across as more of a speculative theory in the article.
That said, could ISIS bring an F-16 down with the weapons in their possession? I would doubt it, unless they have been handed such weapons by NATO. Maybe to use on Syrian jets?
If this was the case though, would the U.S run these sorties if they knew they had them?
So, maybe the Saudis or Israel have provided the means?
what he said.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: thesmokingman
It makes more sense than the US doing it but letting his wingman go. And making a weapons drop when they knew a Jordanian plane would be in the area to see them.
Short in the weapons pylon, switch in the wrong place are two easy reasons it could happen. I posted three incidents in another thread where missiles were accidentally fired at another friendly, two during peacetime training, and once during Desert Storm, resulting in one shoot down and the other two suffering significant damage.