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Islamic State shoots down Iraqi helicopter

Dec 13, 2014 11:23 pm By Robert Spencer

Eurocopter_EC_635_mock-up_ILA_2012“…raising fresh concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes.” Indeed. “European airlines including Virgin Atlantic, KLM and Air France, U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines and Dubai-based Emirates changed their commercial flight plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace.” Before too long they’ll be having to change their commercial flight plans to avoid a lot more airspace than that.

“Islamic State shoots down Iraqi helicopter,” by Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue, Associated Press, December 14, 2014:

Islamic State group militants shot down an Iraqi military helicopter, officials said Saturday, killing the two pilots onboard and raising fresh concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes.

The attack happened late Friday in the Shiite holy city of Samarra, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. A senior Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press the Sunni militants used a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to shoot down the EC635 helicopter on the outskirts of the city….

The militants shot down at least two other Iraqi military helicopters near the city of Beiji in October. Some fear the militants may have captured ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down airplanes when they overran Iraqi and Syrian army bases this summer.

European airlines including Virgin Atlantic, KLM and Air France, U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines and Dubai-based Emirates changed their commercial flight plans over the summer to avoid Iraqi airspace.

The Islamic State group holds about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in its self-styled caliphate.

In Syria, meanwhile, an activist group and a jihadi website said the Islamic State group’s police force beheaded four men in the central province of Homs for blasphemy.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the four were beheaded Friday in the province’s east, without elaborating.

A jihadi website said the “Islamic police in the state of Homs” carried out a court sentence against the four in the presences of onlookers. Grisly photos posted on the website showed each of the four blindfolded men kneeling, their hands tied behind their backs, as a masked man in a black uniform hit their necks with a cleaver.

The Islamic State group governs its territory according to its radical, violent interpretation of Shariah law. It has carried out other mass killings and beheadings, often recorded and posted online.

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Filed Under: air security, Featured, Iraq, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Air France, Delta Air Lines, EC635 helicopter, Emirates, KLM, Samarra, Virgin Atlantic


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  1. Davegreybeard says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 1:43 am

    The battlefield just got a lot more dangerous for the good guys.

  2. Salah says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 2:10 am

    “Some fear the militants may have CAPTURED ground-to-air missiles capable of shooting down airplanes when they overran Iraqi and Syrian army bases this summer.”

    Captured? they don’t need to “capture” ground-to-air missiles, *we* are offering these missiles to ISIS on a silver plate, free of charge, thanks to Obama and his Muslim Brotherhood “advisors.”
    This traitor has innocent blood all over his hands.

  3. joeb says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 6:21 am

    I certainly agree they’ll have to increasingly change their flight plans. This war in Syria/Iraq is nowhere near over. We’ll be looking at the the thick end of a few million dead as more countries become involved.

    It has at least another ten years in it…

    • umbra says

      Dec 14, 2014 at 7:43 am

      … perhaps this conflict is the genesis for ww3.

  4. dumbledoresarmy says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 7:04 am

    From the article – “The Islamic State group governs its territory according to its radical, violent interpretation of Shariah law. ”

    Correction – “The Islamic State group governs its territory according to Shariah law. “

  5. Angemon says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 7:13 am

    Chances are, they used US weapons to do so. Weapons meant to fight the islamic state that somehow found their way into ISIS’s hooves.

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