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Syrian Rebels Destroy Russian Helicopter With US-Supplied Anti-Tank Missile
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:
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"Allahu Akbar!" is the CIA's version of "Stop Resisting!".
Time to slaughter the Turkey. It's Thanksgiving after all.
if the copter was stationary there may be ground forces out looking for the pilots...
John Kerry is monitoring the situation to overthrow Assad for a better Central Banking institution.
The US supplied the TOW's to Saudia Arabia
and some sand nigger had to see if they worked.., ain't life great?
I'm looking for my heavy duty aluminum foil box right now, how do you make those caps anyway?
Anyone else still holding their break for a rate hike?? LOL
Same script...just spout the rhetoric long enough until events like this occur and they have even another reason to "Hold Off" on rate increases..eventually the narrative will form itself...even if it means near global war...we cannot raise rates...and we all knew this years ago...and we all will be discussing (Hopefully) the same never coming rate increase...the tax payers money must be diluted until the bankers are made whole.
Experts fluff and media hyperbole. We have some banking account pilfering to do!
Double post
If WW3 starts soon then today's events will be what set it off, not the lame France stuff like that idiot Chuck Norris said. Who was going to be fighting in WW3 based on the Paris attacks? Everyone against the CIA controlled isis or everyone against the world's 1+ billion Muslims who most of them are innocent and don't do anything?
If the France events were going to start anything then it'd be the second holocaust since it is clear the world wants to eliminate the Muslim population.
It started because of a stupid movie about muhammed and his mother.
Might as well jump on the stupid reasons for WWIII bandwagon.
At 0:13 into the video, is the background smoke from the Su-24 wreckage? Seems like the events occurred in roughly the same area.
Why didn't they bother showing the first shot hitting the heli? Strange.
D'you ever think, "I no longer care whether I live or die.... I just want there to be some Justice." ?
Every day.
Start with the fed.
Time to take the gloves off
If NATO wants war. Welll now, Vlad should drop 10,000 spetznatz exterminators into Northwest Syria and go bug hunting all of Obama's "moderates"
And for the TOW attack on the helicopter, time for bombs to start going off in Riyadh and Doha
That would be an exceedingly poor decision for Putin's Gov't. There's already incidents of de facto desertion and mutany in the Russian military due to its involvement in the region.
In the US they are deserting in droves by blowing their heads off... now that desertion with conviction.
How about some links
Nothing from DEBKA please
You mean if it isn't a Kremlin sanctioned ?media organ?
how are the brave freedom fighters going to protect themselves?
Forget it!
THIS ONE IS STAGED!
Well,,, doesn't get much "stupider" than this. What else is there to say?
Trump is now going to be unstoppable. Trump and Cruz 2016, Hillary can just as well step aside now. Americans don't want war with Russia and certainly not for the benefit of Turks and Erdogen's sultan ambitions.
Presidents are selected, not elected and those selected are mere puppets...how long will it take for U.S. to get that and there are no exceptions.
Many think Trump can bring hope and change to the US of A. Now, where have I heard that before?
The next President of the United States will be remembered as the worst ever.
This will continue for decades. They will not get better. They have no chance of being better.
Most times long term positive change takes short term pain -
You want an education so you can get a better job - you need to study and work at it.
You want to lose weight and get in physical shape - you need to eat healthy / and exercise.
You want to retire with enough assets to enjoy your retirement years - you need to spend less than you earn and save some money.
America has turned into a - I want my good easy life NOW and I don't want to have to do anything to earn it -
I AM ENTITLED TO IT BECAUSE I LIVE IN AMERICA!
So they vote to have government provide it.
Exactly. The joke is on us!
Almost ALL NATIONS are corporations.
Does not matter how we vote. The outcome will be the same because the main stakeholder has a 51% controlling share of the company.
Looks like they shot a copter that had already crashed - or was at least disabled - not even the same one that was shown flying -
I wonder if we could bet Obama to survey the area in Marine One.
Makes more sense that the helicopter destroyed by TOW was sitting still not flying. Hopefully crew was doing 100 yard dash into the woods.
McCain will go blind!
That video is piece-meal and some parts done in a studio. More propaganda. Good job; you hit a helicopter not moving.
The videographer would have followed the trajectory of the shot fired, but nope. Scene two; show helicopter blowing up; scene 3 (back in the studio - listen to audio indoor echo) to praise false god called allah. - end
I doubt any that of the involved nation states in the immediate region are shocked by the chain of events. Most probably only wondered when a confrontation and under what circumstances it would occur. ErDogan's gov't isn't one to admire, but it also isn't one to be trifled with either.
Rooting for Turkish Islamists and ISIS again, are we?
Where's the rooting in my post? Putzin Fcktoid.
The fake news gets more extreme by the day......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
Putin will now mercilessly wipe out the FSA Free Syrian Army terrorists.
...plus the CIA created ISIS/ISIL. I base this more on the reports that "rebels" shot the parachuting Russian crew from the down airplane then this video.
The TOW (Made in USA) operator clearly has (CIA) training. Ok, so we have a hot and direct war now. No more War-by-Proxy.
On the Left we have USSA + NATO (Yes, Turkey is part of NATO (wtf?)) + Sunni Islamists (See: Gulf States) VERSUS Russia + Shi'a (Iran + much of Eastern Iraq) Islamists + (possibly) China on the Right. Looks like World War III is getting started. There are many governments to blame, note I did not say "nations" or "people", and no other government deserves more blame for ALL of this than the United States government. The American people, the vast majority of them, through either their intentional ignorance or indifferent arrogance, have allowed this to happen without the slightest hinderance. The price of Liberty is Eternal Vigiliance and as a whole the American people have not been vigilant and certainly not for any appreciable length of time.
The future looks bleak. I can only trudge on, withdraw my consent to be governed by the criminals in D.C., and live my life as best I can.
Correct. You forgot to mention the paymasters and blackmailers, the Jesuits.
Fucking Governments!
You know Vlad has the satellite photos, was the plane in Turkish airspace?
If so what is FSA doing in Turkey?
America's Epitaph: Too Damn Dumb To Survive.
What happened to blacklivesmatter agenda? Didn't create enough general population traction.
There's gonna be trouble .....
i was just wondering... since americans can fight in the israeli army or their choice of islamist wackos (mohammed is a fraud of a prophet btw), can americans go fightfor the russians?
How about putting the peices together. The decision to deploy the Clemenceau was made before the bombing. The decision to deploy F-15 C's was made for no obviously apparent reason. Things are coming together in a way that suggests that everything going on is a false flag, meant to pressure the Russians to withdraw. Paris bombing was meant to mobilize nationalism for a fight. The Russian Airliner bombing was meant to cause Russian public outcry for withdrawal. This incident is meant to pull NATO into action. Turkey is being belligerent, probably with American support. It wouldn't surprise me if Turkey was behind the Russian Airliner bombing. God help us all these buttheads are dragging us to war. Putin doesn't appear as the type prone to over reaction. Russia will react in due time and due course and not in a way that's expected. The only real question is how delusional is western leadership is and how far will they push this ?
Buttheads is right.
What are the odds turkey was promised a faster track to EU membership if they cooperated in Syria. And what happens if they still don't get EU membership after this.
STAGED ! aaaaaaaaaaaaand Action ! and thats a CIA wrap .... LOL
ISIS Bloopers
The timing couldn't have been better to get nasty with Russia because U.S. is going into thanksgiving and only food will be on their minds while all hell breaks loose in the mideast.
Obama has done nothing for the poor blacks across America.Considering the confidence that he was given when he came into office,all the minorities across the land actually were naive enough to think that a big change was coming to American society.Sadly enough Obama wasn't going to do the job for minorities that Kennedy was shot for doing.This goddamn bum who caters to the NEOCONS running America is nothing more than a conartist serving the military industrial complex.Obama is a National Disgrace to all black people.
Obomba has done tons for the faggot community. The US army wears high heels, faggot marriage is legal, faggots in the military, the white house is lit up in faggot colors, faggots winning ESPN courage awards. . .
No Russian military action will result. It's a pretty bad day today for the Russian military and Putin's gov't isn't it?
The USSR lost 26 million in WWII. That's more like 'bad day' as you joyfully call it.
10 of the estimated 20 million Russian dead during WW2, died in the Gulags, sent by Stalin.
things are going to get real
I don't know, looks like some serious editing going on in this video. The two helicopters in the opening shot could not have landed and spun down their rotors in the 1:20 it took for the explosion to appear in the video. And, even if it did, where's the activity around the landing site? No sign of the crew, which you would kinda expect in a rescue operation. Makes you wonder if they just found a helicopter laying around somewhere and blew it up.
The helicopter they blew up looked like a burnt out shell before it was shot.
This looks loke target practice and not an actual engagement.
It's not just that there was no time for rotors to spin down. The question is: why would they shut down the engine in the first place?
It's the war zone.
Good point. It's the last thing you would do.
nothing about this on RT so far...
This video is extremely offensive because the islamic cultists are proclaiming "allah akbar" when they should be proclaiming "USA military technology akbar", ie allah had no contribution to the development of this highly effective American weapon.
I've said for years that Obama will be the last President in the previous USA. I still believe that to be true, before permanent Marshall law is enacted.
Won't happen. Obama will be removed by military from office. Combining United States of America with Brussels global model will be his last failed attempt to transform America into distructive choas.
"the use of American BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missiles by CIA-backed Free Syrian Army rebels. The missiles, which first appeared in rebel hands in April 2014, have been used far more (a nearly 850% rise) since the Russian intervention: there were 82 recorded uses from October 1 to 20, compared to only 13 in all of September. With each missile valued at least $50,000, that equates to over $4.1 million of expenditure in three weeks.
Having initially had an effective, but strategically subdued effect on the conflict, the CIA coordinated provision of TOW missiles has suddenly shown its true potential. Combatants on the ground -- including 13th Division leader Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Saoud and the leaders of three other CIA-backed FSA groups -- all told me that they have received more TOWs than normal recently and stressed how useful they have been. "TOWs will destroy the Russians and their objectives, and we've received many more recently," Saoud said."
Brookings Institute
The rebels in Yemen were chewing up the Saudis with the Russian Kornet. Maybe we will see more Kornets destroying Saudi shit as "forces" (Iranian, Yemen, Russian) hit-and-run around that area. Special Forces will start sneaking around Syria spotting for the heavy bombers and cruise missiles that can't be touched by Turkish jets. S 300/400 will wipe all non-Russian planes from the sky. Turkey will be destroyed economically by Russia.
Not exactly a panzerfaust this thing.
'bout time you show the world the stuff you're (or not) made of vlad.
Is that a faded flag of Norway on the controller?
Looks to me like a German cross
Engaging (i.e. shooting at) paratroopers while they are descending is against the Geneva Convention.
But then again, perpetrating a coup in Kiev and openly calling for the assassination of Assad, supplying arms to "rebels" by gun-running through Turkey,
and killing thousands of innocents via drone strikes, is against international law, too. But what does Obama care?
What it does though is indicate to the people living in the countries which perpetrated these war crimes that their leaders are the bad guys.
I'm for not selling weapons to the mid-east. HOWEVER, it seems the drum beating for Russian/American war is heavy here on ZH.
US made weapons are everywhere (Russian ones too). The Paris attacks didn't get headlines like "ISIS uses Russian made AK 47s to gun down French citizens", etc.
Conflict may come on its own, why try to enflame and hurry it?
TOWs are a controlled substance in the US Military. Even for 11B (infantry) TOWs are like a fucking unicorn because they are so 'precious' and expensive you only hear about them let alone get to fire one and the training is from an FM field book.
Yet the US Government hands TOWs out like fucking tootsie rolls to a bunch of illiterate, drugged up religious nutjobs who want to make YOU convert to EXTREME Islam or cut your head off.
So who exactly pray tell is doing the enflaming.
Fair enough, they're harder to get than AKs. I'm not refuting that they come from the US nor that it's lousy thinking on the part of the US govt (whatever branch/tendril is at fault this time) to give/sell them.
What I am saying is that every story on ZH on this topic appears to be written from the most inflammatory angle toward the US. Yesterday there were stories of US-provided missiles generating "thank yous" from al-Queda. Such reports had no links to original sources, just "reports" and words sourcing them to Iranian agencies. Pushing a story this way before being certain smells fishy.
Again, I make no claims about the rightness or sanity for US gov't actions. A little less hysteria is my desire, some sobriety.
I don't know why the hell Turkey would ever shoot at a Russian plane nor why anyone in the US gov't would back the action up. There is a lot of noise and misinformation floating around, hard to sift out the BS and get hold of something that holds up as consistent from any news-type sites.
wow. excellent point.
ShoeMouseKey
false analogy
the AK47s were not supplied by the Russian government.
However, US weaponry is intentionally supplied to the ISIS/AlQaeda 'freedom fighters'
either directly (CIA,Pentagon) or through US allied/client regimes (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel).
Read the comments again. Most ZH readers would like to avoid escalated conflict between the US and Russia, but are not optimistic about that avoidance happening.
There may be a different analogy.
The US and Saudi allies supported jihadist AlQaeda 'freedom fighters' to topple the Soviet-allied secular government in Afgahistan. Now the US and Saudis support ISIS/AlQaeda 'freedom fighters' to topple the Russian-allied mostly secular government in Syria.
As some have commented, Putin must be careful not to repeat the Afghan experience.
(Showing its flexibility, the US also backed nazi wannabees to overthrow the elected government in Ukraine when jihadists weren't available.)
"the AK47s were not supplied by the Russian government."
You know that how? There were reports of other "actors" around the scene that were white, clean shaven and spoke some sort of "foreign" language. Could very well be FSB/Spetnaz orchestrating the false flag.
The tragic downing of the Russian jet in Egypt and guess what -- THE VERY NEXT DAY PUTINS RATINGS WENT TO THEIR HIGHEST RECORDED RATING EVER. The very next day. And furthermore, the Egyptians and the Russians would not let any foreign investigatory body (like the NTSB) or even the engineers from Airbus to see the wreckage. Wonder why that is? Hmm...
Don't think everything is as it seems my friend. Oh no...
alpha
You are repeating the same falsehoods that I already refuted?
Makes me think the nonsensical insinuations and accusations you make are not attributable merely to stupidity and ignorance, but are based on malicious and intentional deceit.
To quote my previous reply to you:
"alpha
do more (some) research before you post
Metrojet Investigation
"The aviation accident investigation agencies BEA (France), BFU (Germany), and AAIU (Ireland) participated in the investigation as representatives for the state of the aircraft's design, manufacture, and registration respectively. The BEA sent two investigators, accompanied by six representatives from Airbus, to Egypt on 1 November. According to the BEA, they joined two investigators from the BFU and four investigators from the Interstate Aviation Committee, their Russian counterpart, representing the state of the aircraft's operator.
...
The Republic of Ireland, as the state of aircraft registry, made an offer of assistance which was accepted by the Egyptian accident investigation authorities for the Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to send a team consisting of an Operations/Pilot Inspector, an Engineering Inspector and a Regulatory/Operations Adviser from the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) to assist in the investigation. The team flew out on an Irish military aircraft on 2 November."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrojet_Flight_9268
After all the official US accusations about MH17, the US witholding of information (satellite radar etc.),
and the half-baked MH17 "investigation",
Russia can hardly be faulted for declining un-needed US "assistance".
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-13/context-paris-terror-attack-us-...
The AK-47 and variants are the most widely deployed assault rifles in the world.
Wow, ISIS managed to shoot a stationary undefended object on the ground using a TOW. Alan's Snackbar!
To a man with only an anti-tank weapon, everything looks like a tank.
If Insane Mccain, Hillbillie Klingon and the other rabid psychopathic filth from the Washing town thugocracy imagine that their liver eating I$I$ mutts will draw the Russian Bear into a Zippy the Polak's replay of the Afghan so-called Great Game they are as outdated as their weapons in this final chapter of the USSA'S global blood fest.
Onward to the war to end all our wars...Civil War reloaded...the Cla$$ War!
looks to me like a German battle cross on the TOW missile
this will all pass over...a year from now erdogan will die from 'cancer' (i.e. polonium 210)
putin won't kick off direct military conflict IMO...yet, he is patient, calculated and ruthless when the time is right.
don't get me wrong, I'm not a 'fan', but in this instance some comeuppance will be had - question is...when?
The Phony Litvinenko Murder -William Dunkerley-
There are better drugs that are easily available and I predice a rash of Lue Garick's desease outbreaks that will kill in as little as as a year. Edgoran can watch his family die, rath in his children and children's children and we all know where that type of attitide comes from. Presently Turkey is just one big problem that is just begining to be solved. The Saud empire is also over and crumbling, they just don't know it. Quatar, well they are just about dead broke anyway and this type of childisn nonsense is something that the Hegemon would prevoke so that its 'rightful' investors can pick up the crumbs.. I don't tink Russia really cares as long as civilized rule prevails, but that is not what is happening now.
The Magic Negro and his magic sandnigger terrorists
their actions might result in serious unintended consequences for their allies.
Qatar, israel, KSA, Turkey should all suffer for their support of stateless terrorists and mercenaries.
I expect the Russian response to be deadly and for no one else to see it coming.
Good.
You are jeopardizing the Zerohedge business with comments like that. Watch and see.
He's getting a lot more up-arrow points than you are .....
This ain't good.
I am positive the radar monitors at the British bases on Cyprus knows exactly where the Russian airplane was and where it was traveling. The Russians know because we saw what looked like the S300/400 radar unit at their main Syrian airbase. The US probably has equivalent radars at Incirlik where 6 US F16s are based. Let's put all 3 tracks together to see who is right. Real close to the border doesn't count because they executed 2 pilots.
Payback is a bitch. Next year's tourist season in Turkey will have great deals with no Russians and a bunch of ISIS and Kurdish extremists blowing everything up and cutting a few throats.
Criminal putin regime told officialy that FSA is not a terrorist group and so criminal putin regime is not bombing FSA.
Russia says U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army not a terrorist group
But FSA, NATO, Turkey, etc. kept reporting that criminal putin regime is bombing them - so it means putin regime lied... again.
Syrian rebels to Russia: Stop bombing us
So putin continued to lie and play a fool in world stage ... until when again criminal putin regime went on mission to bomb FSA on border with Turkey - where ISIS is not located - they again violated Turkey/NATO airspace, got warning from them - but ignored it. Thought he is a tough guy - but Turkey fast pointed out where is putin place in world and bitch slapped him by downing ou mighty russian Su-24 war plane. So if criminal putin regime where on mission on bombing ISIS - this would not happen. But Criminal putin regime was in mission to bomb FSA and to show of against NATO by violating it's airspace - in result - putin got kicked in nutts. He deserved that for supporting ISIS. Yes - putin is supporting ISIS because FSA is fighting against ISIS but criminal putin regime is fighting and bombing FSA. So this means - putin supports ISIS. Because ISIS and criminal putin regime and Assad attacks FSA.
Few hours later - FSA bitch slaps putin again and downs it's helicopter using TOW. In one day criminal putin regime mirage about ou mighty macho and military force - was destroyed in ashes.
That is reality - now putin trolls can only scream with anger and downvote any who has put his and putins face in mud.
Hope to see Turkey blocking Turkish straits for russkies ship. Bend over putin... bend over :D
ha ha ha :D Great day!
tl;dr
this should make it easier for Putin.
he will kill isis then let u.s., Israel, turkey, s.a., Qatar, nato, and others claim they were their hired people, doing Allah's work.
it's about time Egypt is waking up, the wrong team of "obamas arab-spring agenda" is in charge, we all know that means big-big trouble for Egypt.
there was far-far more time, weaponry, secrecy, and monetary assets, by the same people, devoted to obamas arab-spring, that was put into D-day in ww11.
today though you couldn't get a couple million devoted troops to fight a banker war again.
it's easy though to pit different factions of muslims against each other, pick your faction, arm, finance, train, then sit back and let the msm lead them to your intended target.
Given the amount of setup time by those "fighters",
am I the only one who thinks "setup"???
As in the whole affair from the dropping of the Su to
this little shoot-em-up was orchestrated???
I'm sure Lockheed employees and executives are dancing in the halls, "Cha-Ching!!! Bonus Time!!! Get the war started!!!! Bombs, we make lots and lots of bombs!!" Meanwhile take away Americans guns because they're dangerous.
Fuck those fuckers and fuck akbar....whoever the hell that is.
I SO want a couple of those TOW missiles!!! ;)
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
You are sure getting some mileage out of this is ISIS=US TOW missile story, Tyler.
Not that the Merican sheared sheeple don’t need their noses rubbed in the TOW poop really, really good.
~ DC
Russia is making a BIG mistake by not attacking the American created, western backed, so called 'Moderate Rebels, FSA, Al Nusra etc'.
It high time these bastards be given justice , use night vision , use infrared imaging from satellites & planes & give them the kayamat , send them to the asura world.