Some 30 Iraqi planes found buried in sands
Iraq-USA, Local, 8/2/2003

American officials announced that the occupation forces in Iraq found scores of planes dumped under the sand while searching for mass destruction weapons, alleged to be with the former Iraqi regime.

The officials explained that among the found planes are "Maig 25 fighters" and "Soa 25" planes found dumped in al-Taqadum ( progress) military base, to the west of Baghdad, where weapons experts team found the planes after they had noticed parts of the planes surfacing from under the sands.

Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence at the US House of representatives, Porter Goss, said that this discovery indicates the extent of the efforts made by the Iraqi army to hide its activities.

However, estimates of the American intelligence for the Iraqi air force was limited to 300 jet fighters most of them are from the Soviet Union's era.

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