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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 09:38 AM Sep 2016

The bombing of the Red Crescent aid-convoy near Aleppo was no mistake.

http://www.interpretermag.com/syria-september-19-2016/

The convoy was on the way to rebel-held areas. Syrian rebels and civilians, not ISIS. A russian drone kept an eye on the convoy for a few minutes, so they knew what it was and where it was.

According to the organization "Syrian Civil Defense", the convoy was attacked by 4 syrian helicopters with barrel-bombs and then by russian jets with cluster-bombs.

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From other articles:
Syria doesn't report on the bombing.
Russia promised to do an investigation. General Igor Konashenkov issued the blatant lie that only the militants had accurate information about the convoy: Except that the convoy's clearance was negotiated many days in advance with Russia and the US, and except that the Russians filmed it with a drone and saw it on live coverage. Also, he claimed that there are no bombing-craters and that the trucks simply look like they were set on fire.
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The bombing of the Red Crescent aid-convoy near Aleppo was no mistake. (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2016 OP
I think we may be very close to a US/Russia confrontation? kentuck Sep 2016 #1
Neither was the bombing and killing of Syria troops by US jets... eom Purveyor Sep 2016 #2
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! malaise Sep 2016 #3
Ones a war crime Sgent Sep 2016 #4
Neither was syrian helicopters bombing syrian urban areas with barrel-bombs. Neither was... DetlefK Sep 2016 #5

kentuck

(111,094 posts)
1. I think we may be very close to a US/Russia confrontation?
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 09:41 AM
Sep 2016

It is Russian planes that are doing the bombing. Just as it is US planes that are doing the bombing on the other side. Both sides pretend they are helping each other.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
5. Neither was syrian helicopters bombing syrian urban areas with barrel-bombs. Neither was...
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 03:05 AM
Sep 2016

Neither was thousands of people disappearing into the torture-dungeons of the Assad-Regime. (Look up the report by Amnesty International.)

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