"British trace missile in copter strike to Iran"

On Mar 7, 11:56 pm, "DDAY" wrote:
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In article .com, "TJ"

wrote:
Sean Rayment at his worst yet again.

The Lynx was Royal Marines. The RAF does not operate Lynx.
Rayment is notorious for gaffs. He claimed that the RAF completely
lost a Harrier in Afghanistan due to a mortar attack. None were lost.
One slightly damaged and repaired on site. One repaired back in UK.

Did I miss something or did the reporter completely leave out a key
detail--the date of the attack?

D

May 6, 2006, why do you ask? Also, the statement is always an official
inquiry into the attack "will"reveal. It's been four days, any actual
statement or was that it? Other question, if the missile was a Strela
SA-14 how did they know the Iranians smuggled it in? IIRC Saddam had a
few of those and the al-Qaeda worked Afghanistan with them.

14 May 2006
RUSSIANS' MISSILE HIT OUR LYNX

THE British helicopter shot down by Iraqi terrorists in Basra was hit
with a Russian-made heat-seeking missile, say military experts.

A team investigating last weekend's tragedy, in which five service
personnel died, believes an SA 14 Strela rocket was used, not a rocket-
propelled grenade as first thought.

The shoulder-held SA 14 launcher has been upgraded recently to help it
deceive a helicopter's defence systems.

The missile that hit the Royal Navy Lynx helicopter was fired from
next to the Basra headquarters of Moqtadr al-Sadr's insurgent Mehdi
Army.
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/t...name_page.html