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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15A Deep-Discount Air Force
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- What are Saddam Hussein's chances of retrieving the Iraqi
- air force jets that fled to Iran during the gulf war? About
- zero, estimates a senior Administration official. At first, he
- says, Pentagon analysts couldn't understand why the Iranians
- claimed that only 22 Iraqi fighter planes and transport aircraft
- had flown across the border "when we all knew they had 140."
- They know now. "Tehran has been very busy painting over" Iraqi
- markings, says the official. "Those planes are the new Iranian
- air force."
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