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Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
No ATS folk besides the soothsayer have seemed overly concerned about this hotspot so I will carry on in monologue.
On reflection there appears to be a couple of problems here:
* How does the local journalist who wrote the story, know that the US fighter planes locked onto the Indonesian planes? Is there some audio or visual cue that would tell the Indonesian pilots this?
* Were the US pilots knowingly flying outside their authorized flightpath? Under whose command? Or were they just being macho, or plane stupid, as they get in Italy?
I am not happy that idiot PM John Howard is a sycophant of imbecile 'president' George W Bush.
I am less happy that this sort of stupid action from the US takes place next to Australia's nearest and most militarily prepared non-English speaking neighbour.
Howard should also order an investigation into this, and demand an apology.
But he won't. He is a petty, racist, lily-livered useless scumbag, who won't upset the apple cart with fellow scumbag Bush.
Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
Seekerof
Are you an ingoramus outside of events in Virginia?
Are you not aware of the terrorist attack in Bali killing hundreds of Australians, Americans and other nationals??????
Nothing out of proportion here at all based on the facts, bud.
In fact, nothing "blown up" by the media at all. I never saw this report anywhere else. I expect it is exactly the kind of story that is being regularly spiked.
Along with military vehicles running over 9-yo children on Iraqi through roads and leaving them to die.
That kind of stuff.
I'm not familiar with the instrument panels of whatever craft they use in Indonesia. I'm still puzzled by how this story got into the hands of any journalist at all, and monitoring it to see what happens.