He was setting up for finals at Dublin and realised that he wouldnt have enough fuel to make it…..

So he turned headed back to Kerry to get some more !!! BOOM BOOM!!

this is what is known as a Kerryman joke to those of you from outside !

Not read that book, but reminds of one of my favourite reads, “As far as my feet will carry me” which is a similar account but this time of a German soldier walking from Siberia to Germany. This book has also been labelled fiction by some but I believe it, and to be honest I’d be gutted if someone came up with ‘hard evidence’ it was made up.

Brilliant book, mine dates from 1959 and gives a pseudonym of “Clements Forell” due to fear of Russian retribution.

Anyone any idea of his real name?

Alex – I should imagine the storage fees from 1973 to present date would amount to more than the value of a Fury ! I very much doubt if Mr Tallichet would leave it there!
As for the importance of the Fury – more important to the Iraqi people as they don’t seem to have many left with collectors buying some -some being bombed and various others picked to death. Maybe the secret would be to put it in a HAS shelter and forget about her for a while until the Iraqi Air Force museum has had a chance to be
established!

perfect solution…it is their aircraft after all !

Not unsubstantiated at all. The bank accounts are fact and he has chosen not to respond to the UNs questioning regarding the missing charity millions.

I am beginning to wonder of we even talking about the same person here !!! what happened when he made himself available to the vultures in the US Admin and not only faced them down but threw their allegations back in their face? where was their evidence ?

As regards the Iran-Iraq war, I think you’ll find the French and Russians pumped in 95% of Saddams needs. Of course this fact would prevent any US bashing, so we’ll ignore that. And if you’re not concerned about a man who wants to build nuclear weapons, who repeatedly states his aim as wiping Israel off the map, you should be

again i think you havent understood the point..

How many times did Rumsfeld visit Sadam? To what purpose ? Money and Support from an International Power is as important as physical arms !

And when did i mention the present ” crisis ” with regard to the Iranian Nuclear crisis? how long has the Iranian president been in power? I was talking about the Iran/Iraq war of the 80’s !!! Remember it ?

with regards to ignoring things we will leave that to the Blinkered fools in the past and present US & Uk admins who cant see further than the next dollar or how to retain power for that little bit longer !!! 😡

The area around Bagdhad is a mess at the moment. Most of the country is peaceful. As far as the media is concerned, peace doesn’t make for good viewing figures

another Fox news advocate ??

this is reality:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5052138.stm

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/30/iraq.ustoll.reut/index.html

Unfortunately lots of religious extremist are taking every opportunity to grease their own palms, knowing the US will be blamed.

And who provides them with their opportunities? Abu Graib ? Civilian casulaties in excess of 20,000 and prob 50,000 ? Murder and rape by US Forces ? Beatings by UK forces ?

It’s perfectly true that the coalition planning for the end of the war was poor, but it’s not the US running around with death squads.

Poor ? non existant more like ! and as for the death squads ? REALLY?????

WHO NEEDS THEM!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5418814

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6496898/

http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/43590.php?contentType=4&contentId=153393

and sometimes it isnt just Iraqi’s ;

http://blog.canadianjournalist.ca/blog/_archives/2006/10/13/2413985.html

what a disgrace for what for many years was a fine branch of the US armed services.

at last a wake up call………..

or has Poodle Tony fallen for the ” lies ” ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096084.stm

In order to prevent any action against the forum…I won’t. But all the info you need isn’t hard to find. Just look into the wealth of a certain oedious, thoroughly corrupt individual with a luxury home in Portugal. A wife who had very large amounts paid into a bank account courtesy of the Iraqi oil ministry and the still unaccounted for sums of money that were supposed to be for an injured Iraqi child. (Concerns raised by the UN!) The man might be articulate, but he’s still utterly corrupt.

sounds interesting though repetitive and proven to be unsubstantiated….

but do you see this as being as contemptible as a certain very senior member of the present US Administration who was a quest of good old Iran bashing Saddam how many times? How much money did the good ole U.S of A. pump into Iraq during their war with Iran? Is this contemptible as well ?

Needs to come home I think. Anyone interested?

Home? surely the aircraft ‘s ” home ” is in Iraq where it last served ? Was’nt the aircraft on the strength of the Iraqi airforce? Was’nt it paid for by the Iraqi people?

What right does the UK or anyone else have to remove property that it does’nt own ? It can hardly be claimed as War spoils as after all the War has been over for a long time, according to Bush and his pal Blair! In any other circumstance this would be known as theft !!!!

Yes get her out of harm’s way but take her back where she belongs when things settle down….Will be a long long time though!