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Terrorism Works? UAE Suspends ISIS Attacks, Threatens To Pull Out Of Coalition
Following the disgusting images of a Jordanian pilot being burned (allegedly) burned alive by ISIS yesterday, the US coalition against the terrorists appears to be faltering. As The NY Times reports, The United Arab Emirates, a crucial Arab ally in the American-led coalition against the Islamic State, suspended airstrikes against the Sunni extremist group in December, citing fears for its pilots’ safety. The UAE made it clear its pilots will not return to the fight until the Pentagon improve its search-and-rescue efforts, shifting the base of support from Kuwait to Iraq, after foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, "let [Barabara Leaf] have it over this," the new American ambassador, why Central Command, in his country’s view, had not put proper assets in northern Iraq for rescuing downed pilots.
The United Arab Emirates, a crucial Arab ally in the American-led coalition against the Islamic State, suspended airstrikes against the Sunni extremist group in December, citing fears for its pilots’ safety after a Jordanian pilot was captured and who the extremists said had been burned to death, United States officials said Tuesday.
The United Arab Emirates are demanding that the Pentagon improve its search-and-rescue efforts, including the use of V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, in northern Iraq, closer to the battleground, instead of basing the missions in Kuwait, administration officials said. The country’s pilots will not rejoin the fight until the Ospreys, which take off and land like helicopters but fly like planes, are put in place in northern Iraq.
The United Arab Emirates notified the United States Central Command that they were suspending flights, administration officials said, after First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh of the Jordanian Air Force was captured when his plane went down near Raqqa, Syria. A senior American military official said Islamic State militants “grabbed” Lieutenant Kasasbeh “within just a few minutes.” He added, “There was no time for us to engage.”
But United Arab Emirates officials questioned the American military about whether rescue teams would have been able to reach Lieutenant Kasasbeh even if there had been more time to do so, administration officials said.
In a blunt exchange last week in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, asked Barbara Leaf, the new American ambassador, why Central Command, in his country’s view, had not put proper assets in northern Iraq for rescuing downed pilots, a senior administration official said.
“He let her have it over this,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue. It was Ms. Leaf’s first courtesy call on the foreign minister.
The exchange followed a month of disputes between American military officials and their counterparts in the United Arab Emirates, who have also expressed concern that the United States has allowed Iran to play a growing role in the fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL.
A spokesman with Central Command declined to comment.
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Fragile coalition indeed... or is terrorism winning?
"Luckily" - as UAE pulls out - Jordan has just committed greater military presence to its Syrian and Iraqi borders
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The obvious answer is that the UAE finally figured out who the "terrorists" actually were...
ISIS is different from Muslim monarchies how?
ISIS broadcast their executions
I can almost hear the pitter-patter of 'boots on the ground' coming.
Another Obama promise about to be broken? You can bet your ass on it.
Seems to me UAE getting out of the club is a huge tell. Burning the Jordanian pilot is ISIS "jump the shark moment". The Hollywood writers that came up with this script won't get another gig for a long time...
Since ISIS is a CIA/Mossad/GCHQ/SA invention, UAE wants to get as far away as possible from this evil charade. Only the Mossad is cold blooded enough to do something like this. Maybe they were overworked having just "suicided" Nisman in Argentina.
Notice that ISIS has never burned or beheaded an ISRAELI soldier, has never made a terrorist attack against Israel. I don't believe they have even *threatened* Israel. Gosh, I wonder why?
The stupidity of sheep in the US, EU and elsewhere is astonishing. The Anglo-Zionist reptiles are getting sloppy and strings are showing...
The stupidity on ISIS shown here by many posters is astonishing. Complete denial on the simple facts you presented above (no attacks on Isreali forces). Why can't people connect the dots?
Why can't people connect the dots?
Because if there is more than 1 dot they get confused
" (allegedly) burned alive "
There's a difference between having a healthy skepticism about things and being nuts.
The whole everything-is-a-phony-false-flag-event attitude at Zero Hedge has jumped the shark into the pool of delusional paranoia.
Agreed. Call me old fashioned - and mind you, I'm as paranoid as the next guy - but I always like to see my paranoia being corrobotrated by some modicum of solid evidence.
Cowardice is a trait wherein fear and excess self-concern override doing or saying what is right, good and of help to others or oneself in a time of need—it is the opposite of courage.
Political correctness or political correctitude (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is an attitude or policy of being careful not to offend or upset any group of people in society who are believed to have a disadvantage.
A suicide bomber was shot dead by Israeli forces, Muslims took up his body and started protesting and these Dumbos did not know that that suicide belt was still tied to the bomber body they were carrying.. what happened next .is in the video
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=785288571522590&set=vb.100001243638...
So, the Israeli's killed a 'suicide bomber' (ever hear of a deadman switch?) and just hand over his body with a live explosive on it? Right. More like Mossad killed some unlucky schmuck, loaded the body with explosives, gave it over to his family and waited for the right moment to touch it off. That's the Mossad and Israel that I know.
Of course terrorism works, most of the "tough guys" are just afraid to admit it.
Even if there is no evidence that this is a fake, at least one previous ISIS execution has been shown to be fakery. So "allegedly" is warranted.
"...Since ISIS is a CIA/Mossad/GCHQ/SA invention..."
Wait... WHAT? Fake ISIS isn't real?
Fact check: Their imaginary leader just got done saying it was real and he wouldn't lie. You're just trying to derail the narrative with truth.
People call me sarcastic but you, sir, take the cake. Are you really implying your president would make promises he cannot or will not honour? Or break a former commitment? On purpose?! For God's sake, man, he won a Nobel prize. And he's black - I'm sorry, let me rephrase that, not of caucasian descent.
"Are you really implying your president would make promises he cannot or will not honour?"
Those are the ONLY kind of promises he makes.
To my knowlege he has kept one and only one promise to the American people. The one where he said he would "fundamentally transform" the country. He sure as shit made good on that one. I don't recognize the place any more.
At least our president only lies "when it become serious".
I guess the rest of the time he just shuts up.
He's only half black so yeah...
Jordanian King's response to muslim terrorists burning 26 yo pilot alive: Two hours later Jordan hangs two muslim terroists.
Illegal alien muslim liar fudgepacker response to muslim terrorists decapitating US citizens: Goes golfing and releases more muslim terrorists from Gitmo.
If executions (state-sponsored premeditated killings) are justified as a deterrant, then they must be broadcast and publicized widely. I'm pretty sure i saw a Saudi execution on liveleak — a multiple-hanging in a public place from some construction crane.
"UAE Suspends ISIS Attacks"
Does this mean ISIS is being ordered to stop its attacks by UAE?
Ban lighter fluid
Of course terrorism works!
Just ask anyone who has taken a commercial airline flight since September 2001!
Exactly. How many of those monarchies, over the last 50 years, have been put in place by the west? If the west could turn the entire region into a glass desert with nothing but their oil fields pumping away, they would have a long time ago. By keeping these people fighting againnst each other and their own interests the west feels that at least it has allowed them to do something. Better than commiting genocide, see how humanitarian the western oligarchs are?
collateral damage. a head here a head there, pretty sooon everywhere. until banker heads roll, just another day in the sunny desert. gotta luv the hipocracy...
... here a head, there a head, every where a head head, old al queada had a fram, eee iii eee iii oooohh...
Geez, it seems easier to keep up with the Kardashians or General Relativity than with the complex web of intrigue surrounding ISIS and its friends, foes and victims.
Four minutes ago on CNN's WOLF, David Hale, the former U.S. ambassador to Jordan, used the term "Daesh" to describe the murderers who burned alive their Jordanian captive. Wolf Blitzer corrected the ambassador, saying the ISIS does not like the use of that term. Thank you, Wolf, Mossad agent extraordinaire, for showing us your sympathies. CNN, the CIA's mouthpiece.
isis. Fun for a while, maybe too many people are finding out. Nice to see hobbit special effects flames !.
Good ole Wolf "AIPAC" Blitzer in the Situation Room.
It's actually funny to listen to that fuckan douchebag spew his Goebellesque propaganda. Full Retard...
.... coming soon to a video near you, Wolfie Blitzer starring in "Don't Lose your Head" producing by muslim terrorists..... oops, correction: armed insurgents.....
This is how we fix this, by showing our partners that we are strong. We need to send the world a meesage of strength and that we are ready to lead the way. Making sure they know our commitment to a strong dollar is the best way, Our dollar right now is too strong, (proves that they can't get enough of our almighty dollar), so we can take this as ultimate trust from our buyers of debt, so they will glady accept our policy of strenghting our dollar by priting more. Also, we can increase our military spending and greatly increase the flow of money and weapson into the middle east. We need to arm these moderate muslims to the teeth to get the job done.
We all know Russia is to blame for this mess, so some strong sanctions on them could go along way. It will help Russia understand there are consquences for messing around in the middle east. The US is the biggest stablizing force in the world. Let's show them Russkies how it's done.
... it's Bush's fault...... let's solve this right by electing another Bush....
That's some fucking class A satire, right there!
Our polocies are working great, we've made some excellent progress. It's time to double down for even greater success. Obama has Putin right where he wants him, and Putin doesn't even know it. I just love how Obama plays dumb, he's great stragizer, and the troops just love him.
Dude! I feel it! USA,USA,USA,USA!...
Indeed... I was going to toss in 'You're a great American', but now I am definintely not worthy.
That could be the case. But a much greater, more important point is, in my opinion, that there are very few (to none) other countries in the world that view perpetual, everlasting warfare as a "natural" state to be in.
Whether a "coalition member", or being subject to watching citizens being burned in cages in far off lands, there seems to be limitations as to just "how much" war is tolerable for (almost) all countries. Unless, of course, you make it your goal to only wage war outside of your borders......
print moar woar.
There is no free lunch in Nature or thermodynamics... Struggle/conflict is the real truth of the matter, if you don't experience some level of struggle/challenge, you will become weak.
Not sure what you were driving at, is what it is...
I completely agree and am a first-hand beneficiary of "struggle" and the benefits it brings.
The waging of perpetual warfare and struggle, as you define it and as I understand it, are very different things. Appreciate the insight, we are just making two different (valid) points.
I haven't got anything against Luis Chama. [/Joe Kidd]
Sometimes schadenfreude doesn't smell so good.
Terrorism is the greatest organizing principle, ever... unfortunately.
"Fragile coalition indeed... or is terrorism winning?"
The attack on Iraq, et al, is state terrorism, as opposed to selective terrorism employed by the weak and out-gunned.
of course terror is winning. funding both sides creates the illusion for moar war. yellen your turn, moar money honey for moar woar. attench hut, "we will win"; yes sir,- march, -march, onward to victory...andthe plebs shouted with joice, hope and change for democracy spread with moar dollars and moar liberation to the unfree world.and someone dare to ask: is there oil underfoot? back in line soldier, you know your mission, to liberate these poor souls from their bondage, tench hut, march, march, onward to victory, and the plebs shouted even louder...
Also called asymmetrical warfare. Used effectively by, among others, the founding fathers of this once-great nation.
It amazes me that those fuckers think it is fine to bomb the shit out of unknowns 20,000 feet feet below them, but when one of the pilots ends up dead (if he did), well, that ain't playing fair, and we're taking our ball and going home.
If all this is were for real, ISIS just learned how to win.
Who finances ISIS?Günter Meyer is Director of the Center for Research into the Arabic World at the University of Mainz. Meyer says he has no doubt about where ISIS gets its funding. "The most important source of ISIS financing to date has been support coming out of the Gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia but also Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates," Meyer told Deutsche Welle. The Gulf states' motivation in financing groups like ISIS was to support their fight against the regime of President Bashar al Assad in Syria, according to Meyer. Three quarters of the Syrian population are Sunni Muslims, but Syria is ruled by an elite drawn mostly from the Alawite minority. The Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
http://www.dw.de/who-finances-isis/a-17720149
Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the countryHow far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world? Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a few months ago, had a revealing and ominous conversation with the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove. Prince Bandar told him: "The time is not far off in the Middle East, Richard, when it will be literally 'God help the Shia'. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them."
The fatal moment predicted by Prince Bandar may now have come for many Shia, with Saudi Arabia playing an important role in bringing it about by supporting the anti-Shia jihad in Iraq and Syria. Since the capture of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) on 10 June, Shia women and children have been killed in villages south of Kirkuk, and Shia air force cadets machine-gunned and buried in mass graves near Tikrit.
In Mosul, Shia shrines and mosques have been blown up, and in the nearby Shia Turkoman city of Tal Afar 4,000 houses have been taken over by Isis fighters as "spoils of war". Simply to be identified as Shia or a related sect, such as the Alawites, in Sunni rebel-held parts of Iraq and Syria today, has become as dangerous as being a Jew was in Nazi-controlled parts of Europe in 1940.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how-saudi-arabia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOzYfPxgJB4
I know this is going to sound crazy, but maybe, just maybe, the West should pull out of the Middle East altogether and let them sort it out amongst themselves. They can't possibly do worse than we did.
O, and while we're at it, maybe Europe should contemplate sitting around the table with Poroshenko and Putin. Without inviting the Nuland woman.
imagine how bad the situation would be over there if we hadn't been meddling for the past 75 years. [/SARCASM]
But they tell us "It's in America's best interest" The same interest we have no say in the matter.
"But they tell us "It's in America's best interest" The same interest we have no say in the matter."
The DC US wants the America country to think that it is in their best interest, when in reality, it is in the best interest of the criminal occupiers of the American country, the DC US, and their Zionist masters.
The banksters need to repay us.
There is no "America's Best Interest". There is only greater Israel's "best interest". The USA is just a useful idiot, a rich, very stupid and maleable goyim who is expendable.
The USA is so stupid they can't even protect their own interests, so they are fair game for the chosenites who are just taking advantage of the positions of power they have so carefully acquired these last hundred years or more.
Alternate Proposal: Since the UAE comprises utter pussies, why not just invade and occupy the emirates, suck the spit of sand of its oil and then clear out?
This seems like a more cost effective solution than the status quo.
you forgot whom is running the show.
da bankers- moar war!
You might want to pull the chip from your phone and get off the computer for a good while. And don't try flying anywhere.
"...pull out of the Middle East"
Like sex with an AIDS riddled Nigerian hooker--You shouldn't be in there anyways.
The banksters need to repay us.
since it is tax time we could all bill the goverment corporation $ approx 211,000 for duress, poor judgement and wasted resources, not to mention theft by tax without representation.
By your down vote I assume that Nigerian hooker's read ZH too.
Fucking fat-finger-my-smart-phone-has-its-own-agenda...I completely agree with your sentiment.
Isn't it a pipeline for UAE gas to Europe the main reason for this crazy shit?
europe doesn't want any gas they are too worried about all this global warming we've been having
So let me understand this a little better.
They send foot soldiers to their death by the thousands without a second thought but the life of the occassional pilot is sacrosanct?
Am I missing something?
You missed your dose of kool-aide, but instead of a plump red pitcher coming through your wall it's gonna be a team of stormtroopers through your door to escort you to an all inclusive re-education camp.
you need to report to matrix reeducation. all good in the neighborhood. understood?
Think we need some video of innocent people being killed by drones and coaltion warfare. I am sure 100s have been killed.
You missed it was a Jordanian pilot - not a US pilot or foot soldier.
NATO's 2nd largest military force and USSA strategic air-command has gone MIA?
Erdogan's folly? *<Hungary for Putin liberation on Thanksgiving?>
As China whispers[?] in the winds of hope`less`change,... 'Who Me?'? **
Funny article.
First, many know that the ISIS is really the CIA and Mossad.
Second, the NY Time?! Really?! The propaganda mouthpiece for Zion, and the DC US empire?!
Or put another way, believing this is like believing a two-year old's story on how the dog really broke the cookie jar.
What we know for sure is that they are trying to sell us more bullshit. The answers lie in the bullshit.
The banksters need to repay us.
the ussa has been setting up saudi arabia for just this moment in tyme. why the news blitze? the agenda has been fined tuned since abullah's death, seeing, he was fearful of his life in ussa hospital and stayed at home to die. he definitely could have lived longer if hospitalized in ussa, but his guilty instincts spelled-out other`wise?
salman is a brain-dead king that should be smoked?
where's bandar`BUSH?
this guy should have been the guy isis burnt alive, but the ussa needs his skullduggery!
to many moving parts in the me too coordinate even for the greatest chess palyer in the world to configure. no hope for the 'giant-head' in america's situation room to fathom?
obama's foreign policy is broken and has been since 2009?!?
what we have is an 'inflamed islam' that isn't taking any prisoners! a modern day ME jihad`crusade agaist the infidels, aka,... christian anti-allah devil worshippers in 'Balfour/Rothschild Land'!
this 1948 delimma is coming to an end-game where somethings gotta give.
if israel and it's satanic mossad/cia think that they can outsmart the indigenous ME/ Africa/Asia they are in for wwiii, but the storyline script hasn't been published just yet until chapter vi comes to fruition, and the final ix chapter roils culmination grandios as iran test its first succesful nuke! ther's moar but one will do? for now as a good fence,... hey neighbor,...[?]
the story disappears as does saudi arabia the once proud kingmaker , toot fini's into the niles pyrimids fading shadows along with the fiat-petro$ as america folds its tent into isolation???
jmo
long live castro!
The Theater of the Absurd
The western cabal think they rule the Arabian peninsula. China thinks they own it.
Of course terrorism works. That's why the NSA, CIA, IRS, BLM, and our local police departments engage in it early and often against law-abiding Americans in their homes.
just can't get serious today, csuse it's one big fucking joke...
It shows how many of these pretty armies of the kings and queens are just show.....they have great parades and they march funny....but dont ever use them in a war...because someone might get hurt....lol...in this war..iSIS is a mean mother and they will do what it takes to scare the hell out of you so you quit....we would never think of doing what they are doing...because we are ciivilized....but in war the dirty player wins...and ISIS is very dirty..and they are winning....that video got them 10,000 more recruits I bet...ISIS is going to own the Middle east in time....unless we get the balls and do to them what they are doing to us...sorry ...but that is all that will stop them...them losing their heads...
and remember you can't loose what ya don't have. i don't want to hear you say "i'm losing it" ha...
OK so I'm going to count the number of comments below and stop as soon as some whacko accuses the Jews for said terrorism.
Perfect...it took only reading 4 comments before the CIA was brought up and a mere 7 for the Jews to be called off as the perps. ZH...never fails to entertain!
I'm new but I'm going to go down your comments until I find some factual informative post
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Still waiting for the first US pilot to volunteer to be captured by ISIS in order to increase public outrage. No takers thus far...
The way to slow down ISIS executions is to launch a seriously LARGE plane and drone attack the day after they announce or release anything. Don't tell me that the US doesn't know where the ISIS fighters have barracks, house, families, weapons, tanks, ammo, etc. Take out one hostage, and you get 100 times that in increased air and missile attacks. But then, if we take out too many ISIS troops they won't be able to defeat Assad.....
So UAE is demanding we deploy Ospreys to a war zone?
Are they out of their fucking minds?
The bit about the Ospreys comes from some of the Emir Jrs. who like to play COD.
Interesting Strategy I Suppose.
Is Something Itching Sir?
I'm Simply Implementing Sanctions.
Etc.
Cia, eat your heart owt.
;-)
If your intent is to play war games, to pretend that you are at war, then do what we are doing: send in Special ops forces two dozen at a time and only at night. Bomb from high altitude or with drones. Murder some really bad guys. Blame your "allies" for not doing enogh. Murder some more really bad guys. Then repeat.
Powell Doctrine: Go in big. Go in hard. Go in fast. Kill a lot of people. Blow up a lot of stuff. And then LEAVE!!
Oh! And the nice thing about leaving...both the American people and the people of countries where you go to fight, won't object all that much whenever and wherever we do this. As it is, most of us don't want to send back our forces to the Middle East or Afghanistan, because it took too damn long to get them out (most of them, anyway -and that's the problem!)
Example of the Powell Doctrine applied:
Deploy 2 air assault divions, 3 ranger battalions, one special forces group, and about 100 A-10 Warthogs through Kuwait. Move northward to establish air bases, command and logistics centers near Baghdad. From there, attack north, northwest, and west to the Iranian, Turkish, and Jordanian borders. As the force enters Syria, land Marines on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, supported by the 6th fleet which would move eastward to link with the Army moving west, establishing supply lines for the army coming from the Mediterranean instead of the Persian Gulf. The air assault/ranger/SF forces complete their sweep through Syria and exit through the Syrian port of Tartus and the Turkish port of Smyrna. In their wake, all organized military resistance will have been destroyed ands the national security forces of the Iraqi and Syrian governments fill the vacuum as the American forces press on.
That is how we should use the great military that we have! Not piecemeal in nighttime raids or surgical air strikes! And not as conquerors and occupiers of foreign lands, and not as humiliators of their native peoples!
Seems tactically and logistically implausible to anyone? Consider this: The 3rd Marine division landed at inchon in September 1950. Swept northeastward past the Chosun Resevoir. Then attacked in a different direction eastward to the port on Wonsan in December 1950. The distance covered then was much less; but the conditions were much, much worse.
Powell also said "we break it, we own it".
I wonder how the Iraqi's really feel about getting the shit bombed out of them for 20+ years.
Powell, regretably, decided to be a "team player" in 2002. He warned against the military invasion of Iraq. He, along with then Army Chief of Staff General Shinseki, warned that it would take at least 200,000 men two years to conquer and pacify Iraq. Shinseki was dismissed (fired). So, Powell then demurred offering the wimpish warning "If you break it (meaning Iraq), then you own it." to George Bush.
The USMC Third Marine Division was deactivated on October 1, 1949 and was reactivated on June 20, 1951.
Then it must have been the 1st Marine Division, commanded by General Puller to which I am referring. One thing is certain: it was definitely the U.S. Marine Corps.
What happened, did the UAE fly into the hot zone by mistake?
BUY THE FUCKING DIP.
ASSAD IS GETTING KILLED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
ISRAEL , THE SAUDIS , HIS OWN PEOPLE (IF THEY BETRAY HIM FOR MONEY)
THE PLAN TO IS TO KEEP DAMASCAUS SO POOR, THE PEOPLE TURN AGAINST THEIR OWN REGIME. FAILING THAT, JUST KEEP THE WAR AND KILLING GOING AT ANY COST.
ARAB MERCENARIES ARE CHEAP. THE HIGH PRICE IS GETTING THE WHORES AS CNN TO KEEP UP THE CHARADE THAT THEY CALL THEMSELVES ISIS.
GOOD VIDEO AND PROPOGANDA IS not CHEAP.
Was is sick/evil/wrong enough for you to demand Western troops openly enter Syria, risking nuclear WW3?
If not, prepare for worse.
Track the downed pilot until the "rescue" target arrives then take out rescue target. Very simple, really.
How Nassim Taleb recommends fighting terrorism https://suite.io/paul-iddon/66t7285
That's OK, I'm sure the Saudis will rush to the UAR's defense when it comes to it.
After all, isn't ISIS the House of Saud's Hezbollah?
ISIS a crude but effective tool of the western ruling elite to divide and conquer the ME region.....and keep its inhabitants from uniting and presenting a more formidable threat to Europe/N.America....the challenge is in the ancient story of wisdom about a certain box and an individual named pandora....if this region unifies behind militant islam....than the old ways will have to be used again......and history proves European man excels at that wicked shit....
There ain't no "allegedly" about it.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4030583977001/warning-extremely-graphic-video...
Start viewing around the 17:30 mark. Tell me that ain't real. My guess is they can't wait to get their hands on one of our pilots.