Hostages of Saddam Hussein: Flight 149
Warfare
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Isn't It Incredibly Unacceptable?
Planes carry with them a f f, for identification, friend or foe. And you have to have a certain code that presents you as civilian plane or military plane. During the iran irak war through the eighties, they actually played around and manipulated those stem so that military flights would carry civil codes. Civil flights might also carry military code, all to confuse the enemy and create the fog of war. In 19 90, British airways deliberately risked the lives of those passengers and its crew to get those men on the ground. So close was the relationship between british airways and the special forces that it had a nickname amongst m i b abe: buck fez among
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