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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:53 PM Sep 2014

UAE's first female fighter pilot likely dropping bombs on ISIS militants in Syria

This is Major Mariam Al Mansouri, who Eric Boiling, one of Fox News' infamous stable of open misogynists, called "boobs on the ground". As opposed to Eric Boiling and company, boobs on air.

Given reports on how the ultra-religious radicals flee before female Kurdish militia fighters, wonder how they are taking this bit of disturbing news? Has to be demoralizing to know you can not flee an F-16 and each munition killing your gang could have been delivered by a female pilot and you are just as dead and condemned to an afterlife of eternal shame.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/uae-female-fighter-pilot-dropping-bombs-isis-article-1.1951052


"UAE’s first female fighter pilot likely dropping bombs on ISIS militants in Syria
Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri, 35, joined the United Arab Emirates' air force once the military branch accepted women. She graduated the academy in 2008 and now pilots an F-16 Block 60 fighter jet, likely among those taking part in the air strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Syria."


http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1951051.1411573376!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/mariam-al-mansouri.jpg

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