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Saturday, October 18, 2014
ISIS training pilots to fly fighter jets Iraqi
Pilots who have joined ISIS in Syria are training
members of the group to fly in three captured fighter
jets, an activist group monitoring the war said Friday,
saying it was the first time that the militant group had
taken to the air.
The group has been flying the planes over the
captured Al-Jarrah Syrian military airport east of
Aleppo, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
citing witnesses in Syria’s northern Aleppo province.
“They have trainers, Iraqi officers who were pilots
before for (former Iraqi president) Saddam Hussein,”
he said.
“People saw the flights, they went up many times
from the airport and they are flying in the skies
outside the airport and coming back.”
It was not clear whether the jets were equipped with
weaponry or whether the pilots could fly longer
distances in the planes, which witnesses said
appeared to be MiG 21 or MiG 23 models captured
from the Syrian military.
The countryside east of Aleppo city is one of the main
bases of ISIS in Syria. The group has seized tracts of
territory in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
Source DAILYSTAR.COM.LB
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