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Syrian Rebels Destroy Russian Helicopter With US-Supplied Anti-Tank Missile
Zero Hedge ^ | 11/24/2015 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 11/24/2015 8:46:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Earlier today, just hours after Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 warplane near the border with Syria, the FSA (more specifically Alwiya al-Ashar) released footage of fighters celebrating over the body of a dead Russian pilot. 

The group would later claim to have executed both pilots after they ejected from the plane and attempted to parachute to safety. 

In a second serious escalation, another FSA-aligned group claimed to have shot down a Russian search and rescue helicopter.

You can read our full coverage here, but just note that if the FSA's 1st Coastal Brigade did indeed use an American-made TOW to destroy a Russian aircraft, it confirms exactly what we said on Monday when we detailed the American, Turkish, and Saudi-sponsored program to supply anti-tank missiles to the Syrian opposition: 

Obviously, this is the very definition of absurdity. It would be bad enough if the US were supplying TOWs to anyone in Syria. But this is Washington and Riyadh handing anti-tank missiles to forces that are firing them at the Iranians who are operating under cover of Russian airstrikes. Just to drive that home: the US is waging war against Iran and Russia with but one degree of separation.

Now, the FSA has released what it says is footage of the TOW attack:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IschF-ihjS0



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To: Ray76

I thought McCain’s terrorists were supposed to be the good guys.


21 posted on 11/24/2015 9:14:58 AM PST by Bogie
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To: Ray76

No more television for me.


22 posted on 11/24/2015 9:17:56 AM PST by Bogie
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To: dp0622

Turkey has been secular since Attaturk ... it’s been going Islamic for about five years ... there’s a reason that Turkey has called the “Sick Man of Europe” for over a century ...


23 posted on 11/24/2015 9:18:34 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Putin vs Erdogan is the new Hitler vs Stalin, you wish both sides could lose.


24 posted on 11/24/2015 9:21:53 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dp0622

Actually, they were, for Muslims. And very anti-Communist.

Turkey has taken a decided swing towards Islamism in the last 20-30 years.


25 posted on 11/24/2015 9:23:31 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: no-s

I don’t see a missile hit it either and the explosion seems to start from underneath the helicopter.

I’m wondering if this helicopter was being abandoned and was deliberately blown up (?)


26 posted on 11/24/2015 9:25:07 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

I never knew it was called that. I seem to remember reading articles about a shift not many years ago.

This reality should have been noticed and action taken by NATO.

or maybe not. I’m not smart enough to know.


27 posted on 11/24/2015 9:28:39 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: dfwgator

I prefer them to fight each other, considering Bambi has no interest in upholding NATO agreements and getting us involved.


28 posted on 11/24/2015 9:31:27 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: thorvaldr

Geneva Convention? How quaint. Do you think the mudslime savages ever heard of the Geneva Convention? Do you think they care? The only antidote to is-slime is total war.


29 posted on 11/24/2015 9:32:00 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Ray76

The second guy behind McCain ( you can see just his head over his right shoulder) is supposedly Bhagdadi the caliph of isis.


30 posted on 11/24/2015 9:36:39 AM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

soetoro is getting us into a shooting war with Russia, China and Iran over his support for one of the most barbaric mooslim groups to come down the pike. This is not going to end well.


31 posted on 11/24/2015 9:40:00 AM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: cripplecreek
All because we had to insert ourselves into a civil war that was of no interest to us.

It could be a lot worse if McCain and Graham got their wish to have forces on the ground in Syria supporting the rebels we like against Assad and the rebels we don't like.

32 posted on 11/24/2015 9:40:59 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: dfwgator

Fear not. Everybody, including us, is going to lose.


33 posted on 11/24/2015 9:43:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This could get very ugly. I imagine Obama is flapping his limp wrists up and down with glee.

L

34 posted on 11/24/2015 9:44:57 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: BobinIL

What side are we on?


35 posted on 11/24/2015 9:45:06 AM PST by Homer1
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To: cripplecreek

Kind of reminds me of this.

“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world”: it was George Washington’s Farewell Address to us.

The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.”


36 posted on 11/24/2015 9:45:27 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Homer1

These days, who knows?


37 posted on 11/24/2015 9:45:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Homer1

I’m afraid it will like “1984”

“We have always been at war with Russia.”

Then next week

“We have always been at war with Iran.”


38 posted on 11/24/2015 9:46:51 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh great.
Great allies we have there.

Yeah, we really know what we are doing in Syria. Really on top of things. Let’s send in more troops!


39 posted on 11/24/2015 9:48:07 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The information plates on the launcher unit are written in English.


40 posted on 11/24/2015 9:52:47 AM PST by Rockpile
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