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There is very little chance that story is even remotely true. The story had 2 sources - Saddam Hussein, and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf aka 'Baghdad Bob' (if you d
by djrogers 10y ago
There is very little chance that story is even remotely true. The story had 2 sources - Saddam Hussein, and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf aka 'Baghdad Bob' (if you don't remember him, look him up - he was a meme before the Internet made memes a thing). On top of that, the story changed from a farmer to a few peasants and back again depending on who was talking and when.
It was propaganda to make the US military look weak and ineffective - the same kind of propaganda that let us watch a split screen of al-Sahhaf's press conference saying the US hadn't taken Baghdad airport and US forces strolling around its tarmac.
- macintux 10y agoCurious to what in the world this is in reply.
- Luc 10y agoThis I guess (last paragraph): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473552
- commentreply 10y agoThe above comment was probably in reply to the following: "...a plane that big is probably a huge target, people would attempt to shoot at it even with small arms, and it is not impossible to get lucky with them (happened at least once in Iraq War for example, when a random farmer downed a US helicopter right on the start of the war with his hunting rifle... the chance of it working was tiny, the rifle didn't even had the range to ever reach the helicopter, but somehow, it did..."