U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels Destroy Russian Helicopter with CIA-Provided TOW Anti-Tank Missile

PJ Media ^ | 11-24-2015 | Patrick Poole

[OddLane]

Strap in!

[pgkdan]

US backed Syrian terrorists...

[ColdOne]

Blood on obamas hands. Many more will be killed because of him.

[TexasCajun]

[OddLane]

The idea that any of these countries have anything to gain from contributing to this charnel house is absurd.

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.

[Cowboy Bob]

Boy, do you think this might give the Russian a great excuse to use a nuke?

[EQAndyBuzz]

Confirmation we are backing ISIS.

Haven’t learned a damn thing from Afghanistan.

[ctdonath2]

Where’s the referenced video?

[ctdonath2]

Ah, here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hT0winesc

[ctdonath2]

Uses a US TOW missile.
This will not end well.

[CivilWarBrewing]

It was a rescue operation! Has Turkey no dignity? It really ticks me off that these Muzzie PIGS are using weapons provided by King Odunga!

Imagine Christian fighters chanting "Jesus is great" EVERY TWO SECONDS during battle. People would call them "sick, brainwashed and DERANGED"..

[The Sons of Liberty]

U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels Destroy Russian Helicopter with CIA-Provided TOW Anti-Tank Missile

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!

[CivilWarBrewing]

I’m wondering if the SU-24 dropped chaff and flares and if not, why not?

[navysealdad]

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.

[Lady Heron]

We have no business supplying muslims anywhere in the world with weapons period.

[CodeJockey]

I’m wondering if the SU-24 dropped chaff and flares and if not, why not?

It appears that the SU24 was on the ground when hit. Pretty chilling video.

[Joe 6-pack]

The TOW is optically guided; chaff and flares would have done little good.

[Joe 6-pack]

Disregard my #18. I was thinking about the helicopter not the SU-24.

[CodeJockey]

Me too thinking it was the chopper.