Saturday, October 01, 2005

Boeing/Bell Osprey Ad Ruffles Muslim Feathers


"Boeing and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad published a month ago - and again this week by mistake - depicting U.S. Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey aircraft onto the roof of a mosque. "It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell," reads the ad, which ran this week in the National Journal and earlier in the Armed Forces Journal. The ad also stated: "Consider it a gift from above."

More at:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002532657_boeingad1m.html

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