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Reports of Russian missiles headed for Syria crashing in Iran (Original Post) nitpicker Oct 2015 OP
that can not be good dembotoz Oct 2015 #1
Uh....why were they flying over Iran? jeff47 Oct 2015 #2
They are launching from the Caspian tkmorris Oct 2015 #3
Yup. Jim__ Oct 2015 #5
Ahhhh. (nt) jeff47 Oct 2015 #6
Putin: "America cannot do 'clusterfuck' the way Mother Russia does! And I will prove it!" randome Oct 2015 #4
... Of course, unnamed "U.S. officials" speaking to CNN Ghost Dog Oct 2015 #7
Maybe they were 'smart' missiles and picked up some 'terrorists' in Iran. pampango Oct 2015 #8

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
2. Uh....why were they flying over Iran?
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:56 PM
Oct 2015

The ships are in the Mediterranean....why would the missiles be flying over Iran to get to Syria?

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
4. Putin: "America cannot do 'clusterfuck' the way Mother Russia does! And I will prove it!"
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:11 PM
Oct 2015

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

 

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
7. ... Of course, unnamed "U.S. officials" speaking to CNN
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:46 PM
Oct 2015

could not possibly be considered by any patriotic USian to be possibly engaged in what is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_%28United_States%29

pampango

(24,692 posts)
8. Maybe they were 'smart' missiles and picked up some 'terrorists' in Iran.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:50 PM
Oct 2015

They did not just malfunction.

I could come up with a good conspiracy theory that the targeted 'terrorists' were Saudi-funded on a mission to kill Iranians or that they were Iranian-based on their way to Syria or Iraq.

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