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    Iranian presidential helicopter has crashed

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    There will be another just like him pop up tomorrow
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    Crashed...... Yeah, right!
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    It seems it might have been a "force majeure" ----they were said to have heavy fog with a visibility of 5 meters!
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    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Sounds a lot more expensive than the Russian method of just falling through a 12th floor window...Glass is cheap, choppers ain't......Ben
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    I've been watching on the BBC and they have live feeds. They have not even gotten to the crash site so everything now is conjecture.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    I'm thinking they're not saying more to project a stable government image. I think he's dead.

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