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patgund(Iraqi) Air Force wants Tehran to give back its planes (Gulf Times, Doha, Qatar)
"Iraq’s air force commander said yesterday he hoped Iran would return some of the scores of Iraqi fighter planes that flew there ahead of the Gulf War in 1991, but conceded many of them were probably beyond repair.
Lieutenant-General Kamal al-Barzanji is eyeing the aircraft, which were flown to Iran to escape destruction, as he slowly rebuilds Iraq’s shattered air force with American help.
“Until now we have not brought back any aircraft. This case belongs to the politicians,” he told a news briefing in Baghdad.
“But we hope we could bring back some of these aircraft to Iraq,” he said, adding that only a few would be salvageable.
Security information Web site GlobalSecurity.org estimates that half of the air force fled to Iran in 1991, just three years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, rather than confront Coalition planes."
"Iraq’s air force commander said yesterday he hoped Iran would return some of the scores of Iraqi fighter planes that flew there ahead of the Gulf War in 1991, but conceded many of them were probably beyond repair.
Lieutenant-General Kamal al-Barzanji is eyeing the aircraft, which were flown to Iran to escape destruction, as he slowly rebuilds Iraq’s shattered air force with American help.
“Until now we have not brought back any aircraft. This case belongs to the politicians,” he told a news briefing in Baghdad.
“But we hope we could bring back some of these aircraft to Iraq,” he said, adding that only a few would be salvageable.
Security information Web site GlobalSecurity.org estimates that half of the air force fled to Iran in 1991, just three years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, rather than confront Coalition planes."
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Date: 2007-08-07 05:22 pm (UTC)