Is this mass forword email a hoax?  You have to see the 3 pictures
that were attached to it.
 

Photo courtesy of MSGT T. Collins, USAF

The Iraqi jet, an advanced Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, was found buried in 
the sand after an informant tipped off U.S. troops. 

The MiG was dug out of a massive sand dune near the Al Taqqadum airfield by
U.S. Air Force recovery teams. The MiG was reportedly one of over two dozen
Iraqi jets buried in the sand, like hidden treasure, waiting to be recovered
at a later date. 

Contrary to what some in the major media have reported, not all the jets
found were from the Gulf War era. 

The Russian-made MiG-25 Foxbat being recovered by U.S. Air Force troops in
the photos is an advanced reconnaissance version never before seen in the
West and is equipped with sophisticated electronic warfare devices. 

U.S. Air Force recovery teams had to use large earth-moving equipment to
uncover the MiG, which is over 70 feet long and weighs nearly 25 tons. 

The Foxbat is known to be one of Iraq's top jet fighters. The advanced
electronic reconnaissance version found by the U.S. Air Force is currently
in service with the Russian air force. The MiG is capable of flying at
speeds of over 2,000 miles an hour, or three times the speed of sound, and
at altitudes of over 75,000 feet. 

The recovery of the advanced MiG fighter is considered to be an intelligence
coup by the U.S. Air Force.. The Foxbat may also be equipped with advanced
Russian- and French-made electronics that were sold to Iraq during the 1990s
in violation of a U..N. ban on arms sales to Baghdad. 

The buried aircraft at Al Taqqadum were covered in camouflage netting,
sealed and, in many 
cases, had their wings removed before being buried more than 10 feet beneath
the Iraqi desert. 

The discovery of the buried Iraqi jet fighters illustrates the problem faced
by U.S. inspection teams searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq is larger in size than California, and the massive deserts south and
west of Baghdad were used by Saddam Hussein to hide weapons during the first
Gulf war. 

While there are rumors of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons being
shipped to nearby Syria, the weapons may very well still remain inside Iraq
buried under the vast desert wastelands. 

Some critics of the Bush administration have claimed that the inability of
U.S.. forces to uncover weapons of mass destruction is proof that the
president misled the nation into the war with Iraq. 

However, in recent days the critics have fallen silent as word quietly
leaked from Iraq that major discoveries have already been made and are now
being documented completely.