Frantic US officials asked the Air Force colonel trapped in Iran a key personal question about his father to try to quickly suss out whether his previous strange radio messages to them were a trap. After Tehran shot down the airman’s F-15E jet Friday, the badly wounded weapons officer limped more than a mile up a mountain partly to boost his signal and send the message, “God is great,” officials said. The message can be translated into the Islamic phrase, “Allahu Akbar,” confusing US officials,

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