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- <text id=91TT1051>
- <title>
- May 13, 1991: A Deep-Discount Air Force
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 13, 1991 Crack Kids
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- A Deep-Discount Air Force
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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