Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to Bob.Ackley:

 AF> From: "Adam Flinton" 

 AF>  wrote in message
 AF> news:7075c6.654873{at}harborwebs.com...
 >> Several years ago, friend Moammar decided he wouldn't permit US RC-135
 AF> flights
 >> in international waters off his coast.  So he had his AF intercept one.
 AF> They
 >> didn't do anything the first time but he said that the next time his
 AF> fighters
 >> would shoot it down.  The next RC-135 mission had a flight of Navy
 AF> fighters
 >> flying in close formation with it (looks like one return on the radar
 AF> scope),
 >> when the Libyan fighters approached the Navy fighters peeled off and
 AF> splashed
 >> them.  Thus far, Moammar has decided to live with the
 AF> couple-of-times-a-week
 >> flights.
 >> 

 AF> Fair enough. It's also fair enough to send your fighters where the
 AF> heck they want to go in "international airspace" including close
 AF> enough to the RC135 to make their surveillance instruments useless.

Yep.  But Khadaffi's publically stated intention was to shoot it down, that
*isn't* 'fair enough.'

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