Posted on 11/24/2015 10:31:39 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
An emergency NATO session has been called for later today following Turkey shooting down a Russian SU-24 aircraft earlier today -- reportedly the first incident of a NATO country shooting down a Russian or Soviet plane.
But following that shoot-down as Russian rescue helicopters searched for the pilots of that airplane, at least one of the helicopters was destroyed by U.S.-backed Syrian rebels using a CIA-provided TOW anti-tank missile.
The rebel group posted video of the destruction of the Russian helicopter:
[VIDEO]
In the video, the serial number of the missile stand can clearly be seen:
[SCREENSHOT]
As part of the CIA program, Syrian rebel groups receiving U.S. TOW missiles are required to video each use and return each spent container.
The potential repercussions of these two incidents today could be unprecedented.
The first is that the U.S. may get drawn into an armed confrontation with Russia if Turkey should invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty. In a speech following the plane shoot-down, Vladimir Putin said that measures will be taken against Turkey for their actions.
The second is that solid evidence of U.S. weapons being used against the Russians operating in Syria could be the pretext for direct confrontation between the U.S. and Russia.
And as I've reported here at PJ Media previously, the TOW missiles provided to "vetted moderate" Syrian rebel groups have repeatedly found their way into the hands of terrorists...
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
US backed Syrian terrorists...
Blood on obamas hands. Many more will be killed because of him.
The only people who might win are the jihadists.
Potentially, the Kurds-if they can carve out a state from the wreckage, but even that will probably be only temporary.
Boy, do you think this might give the Russian a great excuse to use a nuke?
Confirmation we are backing ISIS.
Haven’t learned a damn thing from Afghanistan.
Where’s the referenced video?
Ah, here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hT0winesc
Uses a US TOW missile.
This will not end well.
Imagine Christian fighters chanting "Jesus is great" EVERY TWO SECONDS during battle. People would call them "sick, brainwashed and DERANGED"..
If Barry and Kerry don't get us all killed, I have a feeling that some Syrian ragheads may soon find out that it isn't advisable to 'tweak' the nose of the Russian Bear!
I’m wondering if the SU-24 dropped chaff and flares and if not, why not?
The al-Nusra Front, or Jabhat al-Nusra The Support Front for the People of Al-Sham, often abbreviated to JN or JaN), sometimes called al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, is a Sunni Islamic jihadist militia fighting against Syrian Government forces in the Syrian Civil War, with the aim of establishing an Islamist state in the country. It is the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, and also operates in neighbouring Lebanon.
The al-Nusra Front membership are primarily Syrian Sunni Muslims. Its goals are to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria and to create an Islamic emirate under sharia law.
We have no business supplying muslims anywhere in the world with weapons period.
It appears that the SU24 was on the ground when hit. Pretty chilling video.
The TOW is optically guided; chaff and flares would have done little good.
Disregard my #18. I was thinking about the helicopter not the SU-24.
Me too thinking it was the chopper.
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