Greetings from Austria

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TomCooper
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Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة TomCooper » الأربعاء نوفمبر 03, 2010 11:37 am

Hello everbody,
my name is Tom Cooper, and I'm from Vienna, Austria.

Some here might know me as a researcher, journalist and historian about Arab and other Middle Eastern-, as well as various African air forces, and an author or co-author of such books like "Iraqi Fighters 1953-2003: Camouflage & Markings", "Arab MiGs, Volume 1", or "Arab MiG-19 & MiG-21 Units in Combat".

Hope, I can participate on this forum in a useful fashion, talk with many Iraqi participants, enthusiasts, and historians, also learn a lot. And, who knows, perhaps sometimes I might be of some help too.

Best wishes to everybody!

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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة Khalid » الأربعاء نوفمبر 03, 2010 1:41 pm

Hello Tom!

It is an honor to have you here with us :)

I am following ACIG silently since a while, lurking in forums and reading articles, etc... :D

And you are really doing a very good job indeed.

Looking for more achievements from you!

Thank you very much...

Khalid,
Ethics, Faith, Courage.

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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة hayder » الأربعاء نوفمبر 03, 2010 1:43 pm

Hi Tom

Welcome to our new forum! (I'm hayder from acig). Hope to hear more from you and expand the knowledge of Iraq's military history for the english speaking community!

TomCooper
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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة TomCooper » الأربعاء نوفمبر 03, 2010 8:29 pm

Many thanks for your wellcome, gentlemen!

Hope, we can all find out and learn a lot about the Iraqi armed forces here (oh, and sorry if I always answer in English only: my Arabic is still quite rudimentary, and even if I try, I'd have to type it in Latin letters too).

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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة mfh2000 » الأربعاء نوفمبر 03, 2010 9:35 pm

Hi Tom

Dear friend

I am very glad to see you between us here in the first Iraqi military forum
I hope togather to reach the facts about Iraqi military history

wellcome again

mohammd

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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة Baghdode » الخميس نوفمبر 04, 2010 4:20 pm

hey tom
we r more than happy to have u with us here
hope u enjoy the form and share with us what u know

tc

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Success is not Final , Failure is not Fatal , it is the Courage to Countinue that Counts...

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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة TomCooper » الاثنين نوفمبر 08, 2010 7:58 am

Thanks gentlemen!

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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة Salam Al-Bohaya » الأحد نوفمبر 14, 2010 10:57 am

Alsalamu Alaukim Mr. Cooper

I've read most of your articles in ACIG ... liked much but i didn't like the ones of Arab-Israeli maybe because i am a huge fan of Gamal AbdulNasser

But anyway hello in the forum that i also just joined ..

PS/ I translated some of your Articles about IqAF and IIrAF to Arabic ,, i always saw that you are more good judgement maker in the Iraqi conflicts ,, still not as in the Israeli conflicts were i saw that you were very in the backing side of the Zionists

Regards

TomCooper
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Re: Greetings from Austria

مشاركة بواسطة TomCooper » الخميس نوفمبر 18, 2010 7:41 pm

Salam, al-Bohaya,

glad to hear from you, and thank you for greetings!

As a typical Austrian, I'm neutral: not trying to "back" any side, but simply find out what happened. Therefore, I always depend on the quality of information I get: the more information I get about Arab air forces, the more and better I can report about them.

It's been many years since articles like the ones on the ACIG.org website you mentioned have been written: thanks to many very kind and very friendly gentlemen in Egypt, Iraq and Syria, I have got much better information ever since.

I think that you might want to try getting one of my recently publishing books, such like "Iraqi Fighters" or "Arab MiGs Volume 1", and see how much more better information is now available - in text, but also in photos and other illustrations.

Best wishes,
Tom

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