In article , Andrew Chaplin
wrote:

Micbloo wrote:

Anyone catch this on the news channels? A contingent of US military
experts
including heavily armed US Marines landed today at the US Embassy compound
helipad in Monrovia, Liberia aboard.....a Russian Mi-8T helicopter. Nice
looking ship, hooked up with rescue winch, in blue-white colors. It had an
American flag
stenciled on the cockpit door with the word :"MARINES" printed above
it. The
pilots also looked to be Marines also. Anyone have any info on this? Where
did they get the ship and why use the Mi-8? Possibly because they
didnt want
to scare the locals so they "snuck in" on the Mi-8.

Picture on the front page of the LA Times today.

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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur