US arms companies, fully backed and funded by the US military, have been caught paying for bold magazine adverts showing a Mosque being destroyed by US special forces with a caption that glorifies and jokes about it. After receiving serious complaints, the weapons companies then published the same advert again, supposedly by accident . The US regime claims it is trying not to provoke more terrorism after the mass media disclosure a few days ago that US troops are taking photos of mutilated Iraqi men and women with joke captions for ,,porn ,,. 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. ,, The ad appears at a time when the United States is trying to improve its image in the Muslim world and Boeing seeks to sell its airplanes to Islamic countries. Boeing and Bell officials agreed that the ad — touting the capabilities of the vertical-lift Osprey aircraft — was ill-conceived and should never have been published. ,,We consider the ad offensive, regret its publication and apologize to those who, like us, are dismayed with its contents, ,, said Mary Foerster, a vice president of communication s for Boeing s military side. The company statements were released yesterday in response to an outcry from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic civil-liberties group. The building depicted in the ad has an Arabic sign that translates as ,,Muhammad Mosque, ,, according to the council. The ad may deepen concern overseas that the war on extremists is a war on Islam, said Corey Saylor, the council s government-affairs director. ,,This can be used by the extremists to reinforce that — and we certainly don t want that, ,, he said.