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Title: Helicopter down...
Post by: Furball on May 06, 2006, 06:23:50 AM

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1220886,00.html

:(

Makes you wonder why we are there trying to help them when the locals all cheer and throw stones at people trying to help.

Title: Helicopter down...
Post by: Yeager on May 06, 2006, 12:15:07 PM

Read Germs, Guns and Steel by Jarod Diamond.  

We are all in this thing together unfortunately.

Title: Helicopter down...
Post by: -Concho- on May 06, 2006, 12:34:33 PM

not to be a nazi but it guns, germs and steel.

good read.

Title: Helicopter down...
Post by: Panzzer on May 06, 2006, 02:08:18 PM

I didn't bother to click the link, the one in Basra? UK helicopter shot down, 4 (?) soldiers dead. After which Iraqis clashed with British forces...

Title: Helicopter down...
Post by: Yeager on May 06, 2006, 07:23:54 PM

it should be germs steel and then guns but who am I to piddle paddle :aok

Title: Helicopter down...
Post by: Replicant on May 10, 2006, 05:06:43 PM

Five (http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/FivePersonnelInBasraHelicopterCrashNamed.htm) presumed dead.  I had dealt with one of them several years ago.

When they show pictures of those that have fallen always has more of an impact - makes it all the more real... poor souls.

RIP!