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Even so, the shootdown might have been stymied. A secret Pentagon investigative report on the O'Grady incident, which will be reviewed in Congress this week, will fault U.S. intelligence snafus -- and may also criticize the Marines for allowing glory-hungry senior officers to go along on the rescue. At least four hours before the downing, U.S. spy organizations had solid intelligence from signal intercepts that surface-to-air missile sites were in the area O'Grady was flying over, but that information never got to his squadron. Three minutes before the shootdown, the National Security Agency knew sam radars...
...Wang, whomTIME's Mark Thompsondescribes as "a bit player" in the tragedy, was the radar officer in charge of monitoring the no-fly zone over northern Iraq when two F-15 fighter pilots mistakenly downed the Black Hawk helicopters. No other officer was tried in the April 14, 1994 shootdown. "Plainly the Air Force was hoping that a conviction for Wang would translate into shutting the door on this terrible tragedy," Thompson says. Defense Secretary William Perry today defended the military's handling of the attack, noting that "many officers' careers were very adversely affected by this." But Thompson says...
...people killed when Air Force F-15s shot down two Army helicopters over Iraq. Four senior officers, including two generals, have declined to testify at hearings, citing the right against self-incrimination. The court-martial of AWACS Captain Jim Wang, the only officer facing trial in the shootdown, is scheduled for next week. The tragedy, says Diehl, is a "reflection of much larger, systemic problems with the U.S.A.F. safety program." Piper and his wife Joan were upset to learn last week that one of the F-15 pilots is again flying Air Force jets and that the service has barred...
...miscalculated. On Dec. 27 a pair of Iraqi MiGs committed the double offense of entering the zone and then turning to confront U.S. F-16s. The American aircraft shot down one MiG; the other fled to Iran. Iraqi officials blasted the incident as "blatant aggression." President Bush said the shootdown was consistent with the need to enforce U.N. resolutions, and President-elect Bill Clinton gave him solid support. A day later, even as the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was diverted from Somalia to the Persian Gulf, Iraqi warplanes violated the zone again, but retreated when U.S. fighters approached...
...with, it's never as bad as the critics say it's going to be. And never as good as the advocates expect. I agonized when the Bridgeton hit a mine in the Persian Gulf. Had I oversold our capabilities? I was in a blue funk. The Vincennes Airbus shootdown was painful for me. I had lived in fear of such a mistake. But once it occurs, I believe you have no choice but to face up to it -- publicly -- well aware that you'll be criticized no matter what...