{"id":12861,"date":"2016-03-08T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2016-03-08T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:30:05","slug":"espionage-files-spy-plane-crashes-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/espionage-files-spy-plane-crashes-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Espionage Files: &#8216;Spy-Plane&#8217; Crashes in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12862\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/spyplane.png?w=620\" alt=\"spyplane\" width=\"620\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Talal Abdulqadir woke up on March 5, he probably didn\u2019t expect his farm in northern Iraq would end up crawling with American troops guarding a crashed aircraft. In an instant, the green field outside the town of Kawrgosk put on full display some of the more shadowy elements of Washington\u2019s fight against Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>The apparent spy plane crashed after reportedly suffering a mechanic failure. Heavily-armed U.S. commandos rushed to the scene in helicopters to rescue the four-man crew and secure the area. No one was injured the accident.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tt-wrapper1529b75\" class=\"tt-wrapper inread \">\u00a0\u201cThe plane was flying very low and its propellers were not working,\u201d an unnamed local resident told reporters from the Kurdish news network\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rudaw.net\/english\/kurdistan\/050320163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rudaw<\/a>. \u201cAmerican soldiers came soon afterwards and searched the area. They took away the passengers.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"tt-wrapper inread \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tt-wrapper inread \">We know very little about the plane itself. Owing to its unassuming civilian paint job and private registration code, observers initially mistook the aircraft for a transport plane \u2014 and that\u2019s entirely the point.<\/div>\n<div class=\"tt-wrapper inread \">\n<p>Both the U.S. Army and the Air Force operate fleets of <a href=\"http:\/\/warisboring.com\/articles\/around-the-world-secretive-u-s-air-force-transports-stay-busy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seemingly innocuous cargo haulers<\/a> and small flying spies that transport Special Operations Forces and scan for insurgents and terrorists, respectively. Lacking traditional camouflage paint jobs, the planes are less likely than traditional warplanes to draw unwanted attention as they fly in and out of public airports and small landing strips for sensitive missions around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/warisboring.com\/articles\/secretive-spy-plane-crashes-in-iraq\/?mc_cid=4fd1f1dc0b&amp;mc_eid=1149a36069\">War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Talal Abdulqadir woke up on March 5, he probably didn\u2019t expect his farm in northern Iraq would end up crawling with American troops guarding a crashed aircraft. In an instant, the green field outside the town of Kawrgosk put on full display some of the more shadowy elements of Washington\u2019s fight against Islamic State&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2805,1583,3140,74,2086,4445,2908,3172,2820,4880],"tags":[5284,5285,5286,5287,3913],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}