Thank God Israel is on our side - and that we, thank God, are on Israel’s.
U.S. forces have now rescued the second downed US Air Force service member, a Weapons Systems Officer, whose F-15 was shot down over Iran. The pilot of the plane was rescued almost immediately after ejecting from the plane; the Weapons System Officer, who ejected at the same time as the pilot, was found in mountainous region of western Iran, and rescued by the Americans only 36 hours later. More on this remarkable rescue mission can be found here: “How US fooled Iran to rescue downed F-15 airman stranded in a mountain crevice,” by Shoshana Baker and Miriam Sela-Eitam, Jerusalem Post, April 5, 2026:The United States successfully rescued a downed US Air Force service member, whose F-15 was shot down by Iranian forces in the south east of the country over the weekend, US President Donald Trump said in a Sunday post to Truth Social.
US officials had earlier confirmed the mission to FOX News, explaining that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had conducted an extensive deception campaign as part of the rescue effort.
The Airman, who hasn’t yet been publicly named, was one of two aircrew flying the F-15 when it was shot down. A US military team rescued the aircraft’s pilot later that day, but the second airman was stranded for 36 hours in mountainous terrain before being rescued by US forces.
The CIA campaign involved spreading word inside Iran that US forces had already found him and were moving him overland for exfiltration, confusing Iranian forces and leadership in their own search for the missing airman.
While Iranian forces grappled with misinformation, US intelligence was able to aid in locating the airman in Iran and assist in a US special forces extraction mission.
It was the ultimate “needle in a haystack” scenario, a US official told Fox News. “A courageous American hidden within a mountain crevice, undetectable by conventional means but revealed through CIA intelligence,” he said….
Foreign reports have claimed that Israeli commandos participated in the operation. However, an IDF source stated to the Post that these reports are completely false.
Note that the IDF denies that Israeli commandos took part in the actual rescue and extraction of the downed American, but did not say that Israelis played no part. In fact, an IDF source confirmed that Israel provided intelligence to the Americans. Isn’t it likely that Mossad helped supply information to the Americans about the situation on the ground near where the airman was located, such as what Iranian forces were in the area and whether Iranians collaborating with Mossad were also close by? Surely Mossad would also have helped spread inside Iran the false story about the Americans having already found the airman and were taking him overland out of the country. This led the Iranians to look for him in the wrong places, and to ignore the possibility of an extraction by air. I haven’t heard anyone in the IDF claim that Israel played “no part whatsoever in the rescue.” In fact, an IDF source confirmed that Israel did supply the Americans with useful intelligence, and also bombed certain Iranian sites as a diversionary tactic, but did not take part in the rescue itself.
During the operation, US forces reportedly established a temporary air base for their search mission, during which two MC-130J planes became stuck, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
MC-130Js are specially equipped aircraft used for covert infiltration and the extraction of troops from behind enemy lines.
Due to the planes being immobilized, three additional planes were reportedly sent in for final extraction, NYT reported, and US forces made the decision to blow up the downed planes before evacuating the area.
After the successful extraction mission, Iranian forces discovered the remains of the MC-130J planes and falsely claimed that their military had shot them down.
“According to the IRGC Public Relations Department, through divine favor, the hostile American drone that had been tracking a downed fighter pilot in the southern Isfahan was shot down.” IRNA news tweeted regarding the MC-130J aircraft.
The Iranians did not shoot down the two MC-130J aircraft, as they claimed. “Divine favor” of Allah had nothing to do with it. These very heavy planes had landed, got stuck on the inhospitable ground (mud? sand? rocks?), and could not take off. The decision was made to blow them up, to prevent them from falling intact into enemy hands. But Iranians are being told that Iran’s anti-aircraft fire brought them down. Very few people in Iran are still willing to believe the nonsense and lies their rulers disseminate. --->READ MORE HERE


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