Bad mojo in Iran

[ChuckF]

Sumfin may be up

A US warplane has been forced to land in Iran after violating Iranian territory, an Iranian news agency has reported.

[ChuckF]

Ok, maybe not so bad after all, just embarrassing. I was afraid the Iranians forced down a fighter or something.

Passengers included five senior American generals and three civilians, the report said.

The agency said the group was interrogated at the airport and then allowed to leave after it was realised they had entered unintentionally.

[Watser?]

http://www.independent.co.uk/incomin...ne-954097.html

The Iran News Agency sats a US warplane violated the country's territory and was forced to land.

The agency says the incursion was unintentional and that the military officials were questioned and released.

But the Pentagon says that all its aircraft in the region were accounted for and that it had no reports of an Iran landing.

[Watser?]

Yeah, looks rather harmless.

[ChuckF]

I'm kinda on edge wrt Iran, it being October and all.

[Watser?]

It says on BBC News now Iranian tv reported the plane was Hungarian and had no Americans on board.

[Clutch Munny]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

Ok, maybe not so bad after all, just embarrassing. I was afraid the Iranians forced down a fighter or something.

Those ravening blood-craving Iranian Islamic Muslims are cunning -- cunning I tell you! -- in their attempts to seem normal sometimes.

[California Tanker]

Now being reported as an airplane belonging to a Hungarian aid agency. Talk about Chinese Whisper.

NTM

My cat's American, dammit!

[Clutch Munny]

I heard the Iranians murdered them, after all.

[Stormlight]

Originally Posted by California Tanker

Now being reported as an airplane belonging to a Hungarian aid agency. Talk about Chinese Whisper.

NTM

The plane they shot down was Chinese?? Good grief!

[wei yau]

Not only Chinese, but some kind of stealth aircraft called "The Whisper".

[Stormlight]

[JoeP]

this thread is #1 on google for "iran bad mojo"

[California Tanker]

Iran forced plane with Hungarian military officials to land
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 10/08/08 6:39 AM

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land here last week in a mix-up over whether it had permission to enter its airspace, Hungary’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

The plane was later allowed to continue to Afghanistan.

The ministry said the airplane, carrying a four-member Hungarian military delegation, had permission to fly over Iran, but because of an “administrative error,” characters in the craft’s call signal were changed, and Iranian authorities did not recognize it.

It said the plane landed Sept. 30 in Tehran. “After clearing up the problem, the airplane was able to continue its journey to Afghanistan,” the ministry said in a statement released in Budapest.

The military personnel were part of a Hungarian team who took over direction of Kabul’s international airport this month, it said. They were flying in a civilian Hawker 800 plane rented from the private Hungarian firm JAS Cargoways.

Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency had initially reported that the plane was American and was carrying five military officials and three civilians from Turkey to Afghanistan when it accidentally strayed into Iranian airspace.

Fars said the craft was forced by Iranian planes to land at an airport for questioning.

The report prompted a denial from the U. S. military’s Central Command, which said no American plane was involved.

Later, Iran’s official Arabic-language television station, Al-Alam, quoted an unidentified senior Iranian military official as saying the plane belonged either to a British or Hungarian relief agency.

Both Iranian news reports said Iranian officials questioned the passengers and that the plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan the following day.

NTM