Another sneaky guy…he has to sneak in and out of Iraq. They should leave him there, and we should move the White House offices over there….. outside the Green Zone. Let them stay there until they end this shit.

SYDNEY (AFP) - A plane carrying Australian Prime Minister John Howard was forced to make an emergency landing in Iraq after the cabin began to fill with smoke and fumes shortly after take-off, defence officials said Sunday.

Howard was on a secret visit to southern Iraq when the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-130 Hercules was forced back to Tallil airbase late Saturday, the RAAF said.

The plane, which was carrying 30 people including the head of the Australian defence force Air Marshal Angus Houston, was on its way to Baghdad when the cabin filled with smoke and fumes soon after taking off from Tallil.

The pilot turned the plane around as it reached an altitude of about 1,500 metres (4,900 feet), forcing passengers to wear oxygen masks as the plane dropped into a rapid descent.

Smoke was billowing from the C-130 when it touched down at Tallil some 300 kilometres (180 miles) south of Baghdad and troops rushed to evacuate the prime minister, reports said.

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