Posted on 01/10/2020 7:04:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Unidentified aircraft struck targets in Syria near the border with Iraq on Friday, killing eight Iran-backed Iraqi militiamen, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The rights group, which is based in the United Kingdom, obtains information through a network of activists on the ground in Syria, documenting the war in Syria over the past decade.
The attack, carried out by “unknown drones,” targeted vehicles and armories, according to the organization. However, the head of the Syrian Observatory said it was “unidentified aircraft” that launched the attacks, without elaborating.
“Unidentified aircraft targeted vehicles and arms depots in the Albu Kamal area, causing a large explosion. At least eight Iraqi Hashed fighters were killed,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported the Times of Israel. He was referring to Iraq’s Iran-backed Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Force) militia.
In a post on its website, the Syrian Observatory said the strikes “targeted Iranian-backed militias at the Syrian-Iraqi border, Friday morning, where at least eight people of non-Syrian citizens were killed in the airstrikes.” It said the death toll is likely to rise.
As noted by the Times of Israel, the area where the drones struck is a corridor for Iran to link the regime across Iraq and Syria into Lebanon.
No governments or militant groups in the area have confirmed the airstrikes.
The strike follows high tensions in the region after the United States last week killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who headed the Iran Revolutionary Guards Quds Force and has been blamed by American officials for facilitating terrorist attacks on troops, before Tehran launched about a dozen missiles at U.S. soldiers in Iraqi bases.
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I hate when that happens.
Might have been aliens.
Cool...
Drone On Dude ,LOL
Were they triangular shaped craft which could hover then shoot off to the left or right at around 2,000 mph, stop, then move over a highway filled with cars and trucks and stop their engines?
If so, it wasn't the US or Israel so nothing to see here, just move on. These have been seen in several places in the US the past few months.
They work by contracting spacetime ahead of them and simultaneously expanding spacetime behind them. No fuel. A type of reactionless drive.
Ping.
Maybe it was a Ukraine passenger plane modified to launch cruise missiles. lol, that would be epic revenge.
Except they have no clue what the weapon was or what it was deployed from. All they know is something went BANG! and some people disappeared. It could have been Hellfires fired from an Apache or GBU-39s dropped from a an F-22 and it would have been all the same to them.
Sophisticated Software that promotes kills from friendly fire ?
So many terrorist groups intent on killing .... highly possible to trick them into killing each other.
The F-35 is a fine little attack and deep interdiction aircraft.
And it’s always unidentified.
Russia? Taking advantage of the U.S. drone strike?
Warheads on foreheads.
“They work by contracting spacetime ahead of them and simultaneously expanding spacetime behind them. No fuel. A type of reactionless drive. “
I would like to believe that’s true.
What was the saying on X-Files?
I want to believe...
Somebody did something
Here’s a version from the Finnish bluegrass group Steve ‘N Seagulls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
[Russia? Taking advantage of the U.S. drone strike?]
The Israelis don’t fool around because the Iranians are known for using their proxies (Hezbollah and Hamas) to rain ballistic missiles on Israel. Since American cities aren’t within range of Iranian missiles, we’ve generally taken a more laid-back approach to the Iranian build-up in Syria. Hundreds of Israelis have been killed by ballistic missiles sent by Iranian proxies, so the Israelis smack them hard, early and often, whether it’s the missile sites, the guys protecting them, anti-aircraft batteries, ammo dumps or equipment stores.
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