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Joined: 1/28/2004 From: baghdadIRAQ, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Status: offline
HI ALL, SURE WE HAVE ,WE MADE A NICE UNPAVED ONE RECENTLY WE FOUND A PAVED ONE WE DID R/C FLYING IN ALSO BY THE WAY NOW A DAYS WE ARE ABLE TO TRAVIL ABROAB TO JOIN OTHERS TO DO R/C FLYING IF ANY FIND IT A GOOD IDEA , HE HAVE TO EXPECT US SOON
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Joined: 10/13/2002 From: charlotte,
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Well now that we have liberated your country and you can travel abroad why dont you come here? You can fly at my field any time.
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HI ALL, SURE WE HAVE ,WE MADE A NICE UNPAVED ONE RECENTLY WE FOUND A PAVED ONE WE DID R/C FLYING IN ALSO BY THE WAY NOW A DAYS WE ARE ABLE TO TRAVIL ABROAB TO JOIN OTHERS TO DO R/C FLYING IF ANY FIND IT A GOOD IDEA , HE HAVE TO EXPECT US SOON
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Joined: 12/12/2002 From: Blue Collar TV ,
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Man can be a very disapointing creature, very sad but we must remain hopeful for Hashim and other modelers that freedom and civility will win in the end.
Found this, it might be the same Hashim:
Dear Publisher:
I am an Iraqi R/C Modeler and one of your former subscribers from 1980-1985. I was 19 years old then and now I am 42 years old, my son is 6 years old and the youngest hobbiest in Iraq! In the 1980's, when I received my monthly RCM issue, it was big for me and my other hobbiest friends, because I was the only one having a subscription - it was really big for us!
We used to practice our hobby in secret, because it was not permitted for the public, the old regime thought that our simple 60" wingspan and less models could threaten the Dictator's territories and castles, which were filling up Iraq. It was a serious crime at that time, but now we are free and have started up again!
We have made a simple unpaved runway as a field, this is the first time for us in our history. Maybe you would not believe me if I told you, but our first practice came with help from the American troops. It was so nice for both of us, especially with their HummVee's having very high antennas for us to make beautiful low passes in between.
In time we met R/C hobbiest in the troops, now they are our friends and they participate with us. Fuel was one of the first areas they became our hero. When they found us we were mixing our fuel by ourselves without nitro, by using medical castor oil. This was very expensive, but the only available in my country.
We are still using 20 year old engines without silencers, our radios are from 1979 and our models do not contain a piece of balsa! But with all of that we are still inviting more R/C hobbiest from among the troops to join us and practice together. They left their families for our liberation, that is why me and my friends in the hobby find what we are doing as a duty in return.
Dear Publisher, we are calling out from here in Iraq, to the Clubs and all of the friends in the hobby, to support the hobby in Iraqi at this very special moment - in any way however simple. Whatever it may be, it will be big for us.
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Joined: 12/27/2001 From: Riverview,
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Hashim, this is truely a great for all of us with mutual desires in our fascinating sport. Once all the dust settles in your country some of the fellas here in the USA would be glad to come and fly with you and our modeler brothers in Iraq, if you are ever in our country you will be welcomed at any field I am sure. Take Care,
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Additional:
One of our several mods who is familiar with photo alteration spotted the pictures as fake. The first more obviously than the second, but the plane has been added to both. If nothing else, the color balance gives them away.
Please note. This does not mean the post itself is fake. Hashim may have wanted a picture of himself with a plane, and not having any, did a "Photoshop" to get one.
Bill.
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Joined: 1/28/2004 From: baghdadIRAQ, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Status: offline
WILLIAM ROBISON COMMUNITY MODERATOR,
I BELIEVE THAT YOU NEVER GO OVER RCU REGISTRY FORM OTHER WISE YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW THAT MY LOVELY COUNTRY IRAQ NOT LISTED IN YET AS FAR AS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY BLOCK EMPTY IN THE FORM, I FELT THAT I BETTER SAY KUWAIT
BRING TO YOU ATTENTION A FACT, IRAQI’S AND KUWAIT’S ARE COUSINS FOR A CENTURIES AGO
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