DONALD Trump hailed the rescue mission to find the second downed pilot as “historic” and “genius”, declaring “we leave no American behind”.
“God was watching us”, the US president added as he sang the successes of the daring mission, that he called: “One of the largest most complex most harrowing searches ever attempted by the military.”
President Donald Trump said earlier: ‘If it were up to me, I’d take the oil, I’d keep the oil, we’d make plenty of money’Credit: Reuters
An empty ejection seat from the downed F-15 fighter jetCredit: X
It comes after, despite threats on Easter Sunday that Iranians would be “living in hell” unless they of Hormuz.
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The second American pilot missing after Iran shot down a US fighter jet at the weekend,.
Elite special operations troops were forced to blow up their own planes as they extracted the stricken crew member during a dangerous mission deep within enemy territory.
hailed it as “one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in US History”.
Elite forces to retrieve two servicemen stranded in the Iranian hinterland after their £60m F-15 was hit by Iranian air defences on Friday.
Both the weapons systems officer (WSO), who sits behind the pilot and is also known as the backseater, and the pilot were forced to eject over the country’s southwest.
, but his colleague, a Colonel, could not immediately be located.
Armed only with a handgun and struggling with a leg injury, he climbed up a 7,000ft mountain ridge before hiding in a crevice to evade local tribesmen wielding AK47s.
State TV had earlier to anyone who could return the stricken airman alive.
shows men patrolling the mountains and waving Iranian flags, with one telling the camera: “Don’t worry, we will find them, God willing.”
As he put his Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training into practice, CIA spooks launched their deception campaign, utilising local contacts and other methods to spread the word that the flier had already been found and was being evacuated out of Iran in a ground convoy.
Special operations troops destroyed two of their own aircraft after the daring missionCredit: @officialrnintel / X
The charred wreckage of the planes destroyed by the US militaryCredit: Observer 360 / X
Trump earlier appeared with the Easter Bunny at the White House’s annual Easter Egg RollCredit: Reuters
They also contacted locals they hoped might assist in a province which in parts is less supportive of the regime, a tactic known as “unconventional assisted recovery.”
The CIA eventually pinpointed his location, passed it to the and the incredible operation worthy of a thriller swung into action.
announced the good news that he had been found safe and well just after 5am UK time.
After the daring rescue, to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz.
In an expletive-laden post, he said: “Open the F****’ Strait, you crazy b*****ds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
The dramatic threat was followed on Easter Monday by Trump telling reporters that if Iran doesn’t surrender: “they’ll have no bridges, they’ll have no power plants, they’ll have no anything.”
The US president said he “won’t go further, because there are other things that are worse than those two”.
He added: “If I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil.
“Because it’s there for the taking. There’s not a thing they can do about it.
“Unfortunately the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me I’d take the oil, I’d keep the oil […] make plenty of money and I’d also take care of the people of Iran.”
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