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Russian Search Helicopter Downed Near Syrian Border By US-Made Anti-Tank Missile, Rebels Claim
The news is coming fast and furious out of Syria on Tuesday where, earlier today, Turkey decided to shoot down a Russian Su-24 which Ankara says violated its airspace while conducting operations near the border.
Russia says the fighter jet was in Syrian airspace for the duration of the mission while Turkey insists that the plane crossed the border and was warned several times before being engaged by two F-16s.
For his part, Vladimir Putin has now called Turkey a “backstabber” on the way to accusing Ankara of funding ISIS and derailing the war on terror.
Meanwhile, the FSA which is aligned with al-Nusra and is backed and funded by the US and Turkey released two videos depicting its fighters celebrating over the body of a dead Russian pilot.
Just in case all of that wasn’t enough, the FSA now claims to have shot down a Russian helicopter as it searched for the two missing pilots.
- SYRIAN OPPOSITION SAYS RUSSIAN HELICOPTER DOWNED: JAZEERA
- RUSSIAN HELICOPTER MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN SYRIA: SOHR
- SYRIAN OBSERVATORY SAYS RUSSIAN HELICOPTER HIT IN SYRIA, REBEL GROUP SAYS IT STRUCK IT WITH ANTI-TANK MISSILE
And here's The Telegraph:
In what appears to be a separate incident, another Syrian rebel group - the Free Syrian Army’s First Coastal Division - says it has destroyed a Russia helicopter on Turkmen Mountain, using a TOW anti-tank missile, writes Louisa Loveluck, Middle East Correspondent.
Pro-regime media outlets appear to have confirmed the report, suggesting that a Russian helicopter has been forced to make an emergency landing in government-controlled Latakia.
It was previously reported that Russian helicopters were trying to access the location where the first fighter bomber had crashed.
If the strike is confirmed, the TOW missile was most likely supplied through the same US and Turkey-backed logistics programme that has reportedly been supplying Alwiya al-Ashar.
The rebels' usage of these American-made TOW missiles has increased over 800 per cent since Russia began air strikes against them at the end of September, slowing regime offensives across the country by destroying dozens of tanks and other armoured vehicles.
Here's a video of the alleged crash site (with plenty of "Allahu Akbars" to go along with it) followed by footage shot earlier of the Russian helicopters searching for the pilots:
Do note: these are the exact same TOW missiles we discussed on Monday (see here) and that the US and the Saudis have been funneling to the FSA and its allies and that have been shared with al-Nusra. Here's what we said just one day ago:
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.
If that doesn't count as prescient we don't know what does.
Do note that the helicopter incident is as yet unconfirmed and there are conflicting reports as to what happened, but if this is true, it confirms that US-backed forces supported by Ankara and Riyadh are now using weapons supplied by Washington to shoot down Russian aircraft. Of course they've already been using them to destroy Iranian troops.
Here's a picture of the alleged crash site (again, unconfirmed):
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Game on.
What's the phrase... kicking them when their down?
this is a game?
For some it is, But for Russia it isn't funny anymore...
Also remember that sanctions have been extended 6 more months by the supporters/financiers of ISIS.
Remember how the Fed Reserve had an unscheduled urgent meeting this past Monday? Co incidence? I think not.
I figured it would be a US commercial airliner that was the first to get hit from these missiles.
Is this the part where the FSB conveniently loses 6 briefcase nukes in YPG territory, that can only be detonated within the borders of Turkey?
Thanks for the reminder.
http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/article.aspx?storyid=10664eaa-67...
This is no game. This is collective insanity.
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
Douglas MacArthur
Those idiots.
Helicopters aren't tanks! You use the RPGs for the helicopters.
Kicking bear and hornets nest simultaneously.
ZH, you seriously need to add SNACKBAR warnings on these videos.
Edit: Thank you.
Victoria Nuland says F the Russians. Where's my missiles so I can start pressing the buttons.
Stupid queer Climate change groupie VS a Bear.
Putin should just arm the Kurds.
Just imagine if he would throw in a couple of S-400's.. :o
Putin is thinking "Let's light this mother fucking area up....we will give them their eternal journey to the snackbar.." 3....2.....1........we go hot....real hot.
The war machine propaganda gets more extreme by the day......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
Mmmm....gonna be a BULLISH Day I tell ya!
Yep. Wall Street won't give a flying fuck.
MIC stocks will levitate the entire market. S&P 2100 by days end!
In this Federal Reserve controlled market it's always bullish!
Buy the dips until a currency crisis.
Something else, eh?
The Islamic radicals plan to get the US and Russia directly involved to go at each other.
Yes, Barry is a radical.
No not the Islamic radicals.
'The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.' (Lord Acton)
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws"
-- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"The Islamic radicals plan to get the US and Russia directly involved to go at each other."
Tom Clancy fiction aside (though the Sum Of All Fears is a great read) I expect this may ultimately bring the US and Russia together. I think anyone other than Hillary will have the sense to step back from the madness in Syria and the Ukraine before the psychos in Langley put the world in anymore danger.
F U C K
Those Russians just can't catch a break today...
Time for Specnaz activity.
Putin was clearly pissed off about the Su-24; he called it a "grave" incident. That is about the most serious thing he could have said.
Shooting down the rescue team with a TOW missile just makes it worse.
There is going to be hell to pay for this.
Putin should arm the Kurds. Maybe start a civil war in Turkey like the west did in Ukraine. We live in interesting times.
no, it is probably a time to use mushroom cloud to wipe entire the evil country
This is typical terrorist USSA strategy, first shoot down the craft, then wait for the helpers/rescuers and take them out as well. We seen this many times on terrorist USSA combat footage.
Long shinny glass for the western axis of satanic evil.
Shooting down Search and Rescue or Medical teams is utterly inhuman.
It's completely embarassing that the West is supporting these barbarians.
This is the Afghan/Soviet war on steroids and Viagra. We are fucked. History has a strange way of repeating itself
Last two centuries began with wars against Russia. Check wikipidia about what happened. I don't think the third time will be the charm. Expect flying rockets landing close to the Turkey border soon.
Regarding the downing of Russian helicopter, it landed safe.....Again more to come.
obuma's war...hillary kerry obuma all war criminals have pushed the world to this brink of nukes go live...I pray a christian usa military leadership takes out the washington elite, they are playing to start a nuke war..they are insane.
Not obama's war, the rothschilds war as usual.
It's amazing whatever Barry does, its not him.
Its always someone else.
Is it because you'll be called racist?
OK, it's him, but only inasmuch as any puppet prances itself across the stage for the children in the audience.
Dumbass, the US hasn't got a president since JFK.
That house negro is just part of the PR department.
So GWB was just a puppet too? He didn't invade iraq?
blame on the dual cits
http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html
Barry is owned, he does what the international banking scum tell him to do.
the plane down was already pushing limits
to down the chopper is outright suicidal
no way can this be "play nice chats about it " now
How do all these people charge all those cell phones in an active war zone where, I assume, all infrastructure is effectively inoperable.
solar chargers.
I'm going with car battery. Most likely Toyota.
what if it was Turkish operatives that brought the plane down over Sinai? Could have been...
It's starting to feel like a particularly good day to trade FRNs for physical PMs....
Better move quickly. Silver is already up $0.03/oz on this news. Incredible, isn't it? When are people going to wake up? Perhaps everyone is buying food instead...to get ready...yeah, I'm sure that's it.
I'm certain nobody on ZH needs these warnings.
US weapons in the hands of Radical Muslims killing Russians. Yeah I think Russian patience has just ended.
oh man.... this can escalate very quickly
Fuck.
Bitch slap again in putins face. Reality check - Russian military aviation force is a pathetic one :D ha ha ha
Because Turkey shot down a Russian bomber after signing agreements about how no one fighting ISIS was going to shoot each other down over Syria? You are an uneducated cunt.
choke on a dick.
The Bummer would be Simply Luvin it ( if the dick was his)
They tell me Turkish corporals like you dream of eating Erdogan's poo whilst taking a golden shower from your American masters.
Michelle, please leave.
amk
SU-24 is supersonic, quite capable, manufactured around the same time the F-16 was put together. Frankly, if there was any intended aggression toward Turkey in its fly-by, given the speed on this thing coupled with intent and positioning, the Turkish assets may have been in a world of trouble.
Clearly, no aggression intended by the Russian jet, only the Turks. Putin is right - a stab in the back is exactly what this is. Idiotic move by Erdogan's crew, which will not go unpunished.
Turkey is straddled by the Med and not too far from the Caspian - it is nestled between a heck of a lot of Russian firepower. Erdogan is a fuckin idiot.
Obama wanted war with Russia and he has started one.
Syria and the drumbeat of world war
8 October 2015With Russia having completed its first week of airstrikes in Syria, firing some 26 cruise missiles from warships deployed over 900 miles away in the Caspian Sea, an escalating drumbeat of warnings and threats of a far more dangerous conflict and even world war has come to dominate discussions within ruling circles in both the US and Europe
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/10/08/pers-o08.html
US officials consider nuclear strikes against Russiahttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/05/ukra-j05.html
I find it hard to believe that any ZH readers still think the president calls these kinds of shots. Wake the fuck up! The true powers that be make these decisions, and the president ain't one of them, he's just a dumbass puppet, a fraud, a sociopath and a front man, NOT a decision maker for fucks sake.
Situation moving fom SNAFU to FUBAR
Maybe already at DEFCON 1
just in case WWIII wasn't clearly enough started ..
did WW2 really ever end ?
yes, the fascists won
It is all fun and games until someone uses nukes
First suicide bomb in the crowd .... second suicide bomb for the rescuers ?
The Russins know the US is giving equipment and TOW missiles to ISIS.
We have a totally corrupt government run by the banks. As well as the EU.
US, EU, UK -all on the wrong side of history this time.
Lets see, whats the next move? A russian ship runing into a mine?
Obama is thinking up the exact words needed to make this situation worse. I can smell it.
Senator John McCain in a news report somes months back said, Russia could be " hindered " with it's air assult.
There it is......
Lucky 13........
1.Russo-Turkish War (1568–70):Russian victory
2. Russo-Turkish War (1676–81): Treaty of Bakhchisarai
3. Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700):Russian victory
4. Russo-Turkish War (1710–11):Ottoman victory
5. Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39):Treaty of Niš
6. Russo-Turkish War (1768–74):Russian victory
7. Russo-Turkish War (1787–92):Russian victory
8 Russo-Turkish War (1806–12):Russian victory
9. Russo-Turkish War (1828–29):Russian victory
10. Crimean War (1853–56):Ottoman, British, French and Italian victory
11. Russo-Turkish War (1877–78):Russian victory
12. World War I: Caucasus Campaign (1914–18): Armistice of Erzincan
Thanks for the quick history lesson.
game on ! Just what Putin needs to double down and execute his blitzkreig to wipe out what remains. He now has moral high ground to do so.
Fuck the Caliphate .... restore Constantinople .... as Orthodox Christian "Vatican" .... Istanbul, now it's Constantinople .... restore Jewish Babilonia and Arabia .... push the Muslims back to their 700 AD borders .... then wipe them out ?
Well boys, I reckon this is it -- nuclear combat toe-to-toe with the Rooskies.
Black friday sales include iodine tabs.
not any more than vietnam or afghanistan was
Obama pulls out all the stops to protect his ISIS brothers,
Sad time for the inocent people in the US.
USA on the wrong side.....again USA and Turkey supporting terrorist!
Turkey-Ottoman empire is barbaric nation OF COURSE THEY SUPPORT ISIS!
Lovely country .... orchards of conservative farmers .... leftist Islamoturds are destroyers ?
In other news, Obama played 4 under par this morning, Hollande 5 over.
O, and Turkey didn't miss a birdy.
I can hear thos TU-95 and 160 taxiing to the take-off point. The 95's shake the earth with those co-rotating props. The smell of stinking burned fuel is in the air. Bombs and cruise missiles are loaded. At sea the crews have been called to general quarters, their protective masks bobbing at their sides. Morssiles are ready. Turkey in is for a rough night. FORWARD.
Cluster nukes across the savage border lands.
A bit extreme, but indeed the Syrian conflict could easily be solved within months by carpet bombing all "hostile" areas. A few hundred thousand civilian casualties as collateral, but it would do the trick. Ah, if only war was still as simple as it was against the Germans.
While we all just sit and watch. They did such a good job of de sensitising and imasculating all of us. Or maybe no one gives a fuck anymore. I guess not.
Register your apathy with a whitehouse.gov. petition.
"Doing nothing that feels good."
Next step is obvious: French or US jet hit and blamed on Russia. Then it's EU and US escalation, calling for Russia to exit the area, like that's gonna happen.
I'd say, Syria, Turkey, most of what's left of Iraq blown to shit over the next six months. Worldwide "shelter in place" terror alert, more suicide bombings in France, Germany, US. Palestinians suddenly become more hostile to Israel, just so they can get some extra licks in.
End of it all is Israel claiming Golan Heights and further into Syria as part of their "territory."
Oh, yeah, and behind it all, the Fed can't raise rates, due to global turmoil, stock markets tank. Massive war is always a great means to hide a hollowed out economy.
Fuck the Jews, Illuminati, US government, anybody else involved in this shitshow.
UPDATE: Turkish foreign ministry summons US, Russian, French, Chinese, British envoys to brief on downing of Russian jet - Turkish official
Nice fotos of the Armenian genocide ?
All I see are dead Muslims. The problem?
The real Barbarians were Muslims .... not, my fair haired Germans .... see Dr. Warner, historian .... barenakedislam.com ?
Glad I'm not flying over the holidays. Staying away from target rich environments.
I rarely fly anymore .... only within Christian countries .... Mexico ?
What current administation is in control of the US government?
Yes!
Russia, do the world a favor and Piss-Pound Turkey for us.... Thank You in Advance.
These shitskins need to experience a radiological event.