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Date: April 3, 2007 11:37:06 AM PDT
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Subject: Fighting Fire with Fire -- British Military May Train Its
Own "Suicide Bombers"
RAF pilots consider the Kamikaze option
By Duncan Hooper
The Telegraph (UK), April 3, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/03/
nsuicide103.xml
RAF fighter pilots were asked to consider flying suicide missions
as a last resort to stop terrorists, the Ministry of Defence said.
Air Vice-Marshal David Walker put forward the last-ditch scenario
at a conference for air crews.
According to The Sun newspaper, he said: "Would you think it
unreasonable if I ordered you to fly your aircraft into the ground
in order to destroy a vehicle carrying a Taliban or al-Qa'eda
commander?"
An MoD spokesman stressed Air Vice-Marshal Walker did not say he
would order his crews on suicide missions.
He said: "As part of a training exercise, he wanted them to think
about how they, and their commanders, would react, faced with a
life and death decision of the most extreme sort -- for example
terrorists trying to fly an aircraft into a British city, being
followed by an RAF fighter which suffers weapons failure.
"These are decisions which, however unlikely and dreadful, service
people may have to make and it is one of many reasons why the
British people hold them in such high esteem
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