Um, Bin Laden was 7,000 miles away in an ungoverned wasteland as 9/11 unfolded. Salah was strolling downtown Paris with an AK-47. Slight difference.

The fact that a guy who perpetrated one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern European history could successfully evade capture in a European capital for this long is a fucking travesty, and speaks volumes about the depth of the problem Europe has created for itself.

Belgium is known for two things: chocolate and child abuse. But they only invented the chocolate to get to the kids.

the only Hellfire missle on this plane is in my husbands big hands

It’s for the Amazon drone program.

Well, I ordered a couple of espresso machines and now they are lost in transit. Thanks Serbia!

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Yes! The same organization that restored the IL-2 also reproduced, I believe, 5 Me-262s from original German plans. However, like the IL-2, the Me-262s have US engines — an Allison in the IL-2's case because it would be impossible to find Mikulin parts, and a GE J-85 in the Me-262's case because there are no parts and…

Correct, but not impossible. The catch is, that you and your relative would not want to have a camera or laptop with your visit.

Yes shooting down a plane with a MANPAD would make soo much more of a statement than flying 2 aircraft into the Twin Towers, 1 into the Pentagon and attempt to crash 1 into the White House.

The fact that Russia is using few precision guided weapons in its air war over Syria, and largely lacks modern targeting pod technology, is their Achilles heal. If they want to be even close to being accurate when attempting to strike small targets, their fixed-wing aircraft have to attack at lower altitudes.

Rofl... Saudi Arabia, one that’s dropping cluster bombs on Yemen, is going to “help” “unimaginable civilian tragedy”?

Well, that’s one way to hike of the price of oil, Saudi Arabia, get into a shooting war with Russia.

worked out well for osama

...because it was filmed in the middle of NYC and not an army training ground? You live in the freaking US; the entire country is depressing dilapidated buildings, as I sadly find out each time I’m sent there on a business trip.

Actually, the Russian people really do strike me as very similar to Americans, especially as compared to Europeans. Russians have a strong sense of exceptionalism, much like Americans. Almost unnecessarily large military. Lower standard of living and worse health system than western Europe. Very high levels of…

You forgot to mention the ad was paid for by the Russian ministry of defense/tourism.

I do agree about one thing - Arabs cannot work with democracy. That’s why I also agree that Assad should win this war. But I also think that he should be replaced by someone else once the war is over and brought to justice for his crimes.

Even funnier, FA left out the part where Turkey no longer flies over Syria :D