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Arab Woman Led Airstrikes Over Syria
By artappraiser on Fri, 09/26/2014 - 4:50am |By Karen Zraick, New York Times, Sept. 25/26, 2014
When fighter jets from the United Arab Emirates took part in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Monday night, the mission was led by a woman, the country’s ambassador to the United States said Thursday morning.
The pilot, Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri, was among the first women to graduate from the Emirates’ air force academy after it began to admit women, and became the nation’s first female fighter pilot [....]
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