Syria: Russia Releases Bombing Footage; U.S. Confirms They Hit CIA-Backed Rebels

Briebart ^ | 10/01/2015 | John Hayward

[b4its2late]

The Russians are still insisting their air campaign is targeting the Islamic State, but U.S. officials say the bombs have been dropping on CIA-backed rebel groups.

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called the Russian flights unprofessional and dangerous, while Secretary of State John Kerry expressed concerns about the choice of bombing targets to his opposite number, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konoshenkov described the footage released on Wednesday as picturing strikes against “Islamic state military equipment, communication facilities, arms depots, ammunition and fuel supplies,” and claimed none of the bombs struck “civilian infrastructure or areas nearby,” according to Sputnik News.

Konoshenkov added the strikes were launched only after Russia “obtained detailed intelligence from the Syrian armed forces.”

It does not exactly look like precision ordnance in the videos released by the Defense Ministry:

U.S. officials countered that the actual targets of the Russian strikes had nothing to do with the Islamic State. They were hitting other enemies of the Assad regime, including “an area primarily held by rebels backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and allied spy services,” according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

[b4its2late]

Videos at link.

[demshateGod]

What difference does it make.

[Parley Baer]

All five of the CIA backed rebels were hit. Pretty accurate bombing.

[Dick Bachert]

We must IMMEDIATELY send a task force of these mighty vessels – now the standard warship in Obama's “New Navy” – into the Med to deal with those pesky Ruskies.

Armed with a single M2 .50 caliber Browning, this much feared naval vessel carries up to 30 rounds of full cardboard jacketed paper bag piercing ammunition. It is the first in an entirely new naval architecture class -- technically, “clitoral” (not to be confused with “littoral”) -- being pushed on the Pentagon by the defense minded wussies in the Obama Administration as a cost-saving measure. If you look closely, you can see the heavy-duty seat restraint which prevents the helmsman/gunner shown here – Seaman 4th Class Kenneth “Kamakazi” Kowalski – from leaping from the vessel prior to engaging the enemy. The 12 V trolling motor – which lacks a reverse function -- propels this sophisticated craft forward at a top speed of 4 knots. Reverse travel – at approximately 35 knots -- is achieved by firing the Browning.

The no-bid contract to build 300 of these fearsome warships was awarded to the Obama-Soros-Emanuel Shipbuilding and Stormdoor Manufacturing Company (formerly General Dynamics) and will be administered by trusted Obama associate, Chicago Mayor and former Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel who commented that, at $12 million each, they are a bargain. Constructed exclusively at the company’s facility in Kenya with major sub-component production (rivets and miscellaneous fasteners) at the company’s Harlem and Skokie plants. Delivery and sea trials of 100 of these began in 2013 with the remaining 200 to follow as soon as the subcontractors’ funds are safely in the contractor's numbered Swiss account.

[MichaelCorleone]

Maybe Russia’s inviting us to the party.

[Diogenesis]

"rebels" = al Qaeda (bombed Pentagon, World Trade Centers, ............ murdered 3000+ Americans)

"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana

[Darroll]

This country is too weak to get any respect.

[EBH]

There are no CIA backed rebels anymore. The program was basically disbanded. What a crock of bull are they pulling?

It is all propaganda!

If you are on any type of social media sight...start countering this information! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3338017/posts

[maxwellsmart_agent]

It begins to look as though the Islamic State and the Syrian Rebels are one and the same. Otherwise, who are the Syrian Rebels and why aren’t they clashing with the Islamic State?

[airborne]

How do you tell the difference?

Wasn’t ISIS at one time US backed moderate Muslims?

[Norm Lenhart]

GOP funded terrorists would be the correct title.

[Norm Lenhart]

GOP funded terrorists would be the correct title.

[SkyDancer]

And Russia replies “Whoopsie, our bad. So we’re okay now?”

[knarf]

OK .. I had asked yesterday if Russia was tipping off WW3 and all kinds of replies essentially said no ... and perhaps the wording of my question forced that reply

But if Russia is intentionally taking out our CIA affiliates ... isn't that an attack on the USA ?

[marron]

CIA-backed rebels? Why don’t they just say “Turkish-backed rebels”? Doesn’t have the same ring to it? How about “Saudi-backed rebels”?

[Socon-Econ]

Fat chance that any truly pro-USA, CIA-supported “rebels” would be able to prevail if Assad and his forces were to disappear. They would have no internal support. And any American support would soon wither under the attacks of domestic leftists and Republican isolationists.

[DCBryan1]

Just for shits and giggles, Putin should give a briefing on the day's objectives and future strike operations and call out the Russian/Iranian/Chinese/Assad organization as:

Ground Operations Group (GOG), and the Navy/Marine detachment at Tartus and Latakia as:Marine Assault General Operations Group (MAGOG).

Watch heads explode......or the world.

[EBH]

I insinuated a few days ago that ISIS is an 0bama regime baby. And 0bama ain’t got not one problem with it either.

America is responsible for ISIS. From its creation to its barbaric war methods.

We can deny that all we want, but the pieces that the regime has revealed all point to our own government.

[wrench]

“But if Russia is intentionally taking out our CIA affiliates ... isn’t that an attack on the USA ?”

No more than taking out MS13 gang members is an attack on Mexico.

It is still illegal under international law for one country to foment armed overthrow of another sovereign nation.

[Sacajaweau]

We shouldn't even be in Syria. We have no diplomatic ties. We closed the Syrian Embassy in DC last year and sent their reps back to Syria.

We originally went into Syria because of Assad's chem weapons. Russia got Assad to give them up.

We should have left instead of trying to "assassinate" Assad...which is what Obama wants to do. Forget Obama's rhetoric about letting Assad stay for now.

Saudi Arabia whispered into Obama's ear......and Obama responded....After Russia attacks ISIS, I'll have more leverage.