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Syrian Helicopter Reportedly Downed by Rebels Over Idlib (Awesome Video of Mid-Air Disintegration)
NBC News ^ | October 18, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 10/18/2012 4:32:30 AM PDT by lbryce

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Bull's eye missile gives Assad a bad day.
1 posted on 10/18/2012 4:32:41 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

Fast and Furious: Syrian Edition.


2 posted on 10/18/2012 4:35:56 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: lbryce

Have the Syrian rebels been supplied Surface to Air shoulder fired missiles? In recent testimony to Congress, State Department Officials acknowledged that 10,000 to 20,000 of those are missing or unaccounted for in Lybia.


3 posted on 10/18/2012 4:41:07 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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Too bad it didn’t crash into the ground and do that right on top of the folks saying all the akbars.


4 posted on 10/18/2012 4:43:02 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Exactly.

Supplying al Qaeda with Surface to Air shoulder
fired weapons was a PRIME PLAN of the US State Dept, Obama,
Clinton, Huma, and Holder. First, Syria, and
then all commercial flights will be the target,
as they planned.


5 posted on 10/18/2012 4:43:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

And how funny will it be when one of these surface to air missiles is used against a heavy airliner in Europe or here in the US?
You can thank the democRATS for the unraveling of the Mideast.


6 posted on 10/18/2012 4:46:26 AM PDT by 9422WMR (Life is not fair, just deal with it)
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That wasn't a missile: shoulder-fired missiles have small grenade-size warheads that wreck engines. That Mi-8 was hit by something and its engine was burning in the first part of the video and it was apparently on the way down when its cargo detonated. Something it was carrying - probably something big like artillery ammo - went off all at once.

I've seen a lot of helicopters shot down and they never go up like this!

7 posted on 10/18/2012 4:49:27 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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It’s almost as if some “conservatives” want Syria to go Islamist like Egypt.


8 posted on 10/18/2012 4:52:23 AM PDT by Romulus
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Could the fuel lead to an explosion like this?


9 posted on 10/18/2012 4:52:54 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Diogenesis

Probably a Soviet MANPAD design in the double digits.


10 posted on 10/18/2012 4:54:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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You’re right. Watching the video at the end after the initial fiery explosion, the way it blew up in the sky in a strange black cloud the way it did,it didn’t seem like the helicopter met its fate via missile.


11 posted on 10/18/2012 4:55:39 AM PDT by lbryce (BHO-"Now, I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" by way of Oppenheimer at Trinity, NM)
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So now we know what Ambassador White was up to in Benghazi. Pity it turned out so badly for him.


12 posted on 10/18/2012 4:56:24 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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Click Here:Direct Link to the Video
13 posted on 10/18/2012 5:02:28 AM PDT by lbryce (BHO-"Now, I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" by way of Oppenheimer at Trinity, NM)
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To: Little Ray

Stevens


14 posted on 10/18/2012 5:05:31 AM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: jdsteel

20,000 shoulder launched rockets missing in Libya. I think I know where one of them went.


15 posted on 10/18/2012 5:10:07 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: lbryce

They screamed Allahu Akbar when they hit it. I doubt these are akin to the Founding Fathers, no matter what McCain, Romney and Obama think. There is bipartisan support for these rebels, and it is more idiocy.


16 posted on 10/18/2012 5:12:56 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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They do.


17 posted on 10/18/2012 5:14:30 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: lbryce

Hope and pray zero doesn’t decide he needs to inject American air forces into Syria for a poll bump.


18 posted on 10/18/2012 5:17:17 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: Romulus

Yes it is rather pathetic seeing some of the ignorance spewed on here relating to this subject. The same people who were all over Obama for Libya and Egypt are cheering for exactly the same thing in Syria. Yeah lets turn the entire middle east into a sunni extremist paradise. It is no surprise that Qatar is funding these terrorists, they(along with Saudi Arabia) also happen to fund the majority of mosque constructions around the world. This is just another way to spread their brand of islam around the world.

Don’t get me started on this “impartial envoy”, the same man who brokered a peace treaty in lebanon giving syria overlordship over lebanon, stripped christians of any power they might have had and put the power firmly in the hands of sunni muslims, who further enforced their position in the country by promptly naturalizing 250000 palestinians which amounted to roughly 8-10% of the population at the time.

Personally I see the sunni threat as equal if not far greater than the iranian shiite threat, especially due to the sunni in chief.


19 posted on 10/18/2012 5:31:11 AM PDT by hannibaal
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More weapons in Syria could trigger 'all-out war'

I just saw a helicopter EXPLODE in mid-air.
I'd say we're well on our way, if not there already.
20 posted on 10/18/2012 5:46:17 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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