Missile fired at McCain escort helicopter during European visit
A missile was fired at a helicopter escorting Sen. John McCain during a visit to the Republic of Georgia last week.A statement from that nation’s interior ministry says the surface-to-air missile was aimed at a chopper involved in a visit of a U.S. Senate delegation to the former Soviet republic. McCain was mentioned as the leader of the group.
The ministry statement claims American officials were notified of the incident. State Dept. spokeswoman Joanne Moore told the Associated Press she had no information about the reported attack.
advertisementThe president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, is a strong ally of the U.S. He is also trying to re-establish control over two regions of the country trying to break away from the central government.
Word of this missile launch was made as part of a statement about a Sunday attack on a helicopter carrying Georgia’s defense minister. His aircraft was damaged by large-caliber machine gun fire and forced to make an emergency landing. No one was injured.
My guess is that either it was a bad shooter, or more then likely the helicopters defenses drew the missle away like it’s supposed too. Is there a part of the world that someone isn’t trying to kill an American? It used to be that Americans were somewhat liked… or at least where safe from weekly attempts at killing someone. I hadn’t realized also that Russia had gotten so bad that so many assasination attempts where happening.
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