Russia warns NATO to stay out of Syria
Based on a report in Britain's Sunday Times (which is behind a paywall), YNet reports that Russian technicians were behind Syria shooting down a Turkish F-4 Phantom last week as a warning to NATO to stay out of Syria's civil war. Russian technicians played a key part in the interception and shooting down of a Turkish warplane by Syria’s anti-aircraft defenses 10 days ago, Britain's Sunday Times reported Sunday. Diplomatic sources in the Middle East told the paper that destroying the F-4E Phantom II was a split-second decision intended as a warning to NATO to stay out of Syria’s civil war.Meanwhile, the fairytale President of the United States is afraid to confront the Russians.
A source in Israel's Air Force was quoted as saying “we would not be surprised if these Russian experts, if they didn’t push the button, at least were beside the Syrian officers who did it."
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“It definitely has Russian fingerprints on it,” a diplomat told the Sunday Times. He summarized the Russian message: “Syria is not Libya and any attempt to impose a ‘no fly zone’ over Syria will face one of the most formidable air defenses on Earth and will cost any attacker dearly.”
An international conference held in Geneva Saturday accepted a UN-brokered peace plan for Syria, but saw Russia and China still supporting President Bashar Assad.Haaretz adds (Hat Tip: Perlman M):
The US was forced to back away from demands that Assad be excluded, hoping the concession would encourage Russia to put greater pressure on its longtime ally to end the violent crackdown that the opposition says has claimed over 14,000 lives.
The unarmed reconnaissance jet had briefly entered Syrian airspace on June 22 as it approached land after patrolling the eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said, but was warned by Turkish radar controllers and immediately left and turned again out to sea.Hmmm. If this is correct, it's much more important than the exact location of the plane when it was shot down. Aren't you glad Obama pressed that reset button with the Russians?
It then made another approach to land when it was shot down 13 miles off the coast in international airspace, he said, out of the reach of Syria's anti-aircraft guns.
"According to the data in our hands, it points to our plane being shot by a laser or heat-guided surface-to-air missile. The fact our plane was not given an early radar warning, suggests it was not a radar-guided missile," said Arinc.
Labels: anti-aircraft missiles, Barack Hussein Obama, Russia, Syria, Syria no-fly zone, Syrian air space, Turkey
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:43 PM
1 Comments:
I thought Turkey had all this massively efficient and effective technology and that they didn't need Israel or anybody for anything because Turkey is most powerful and great nation in the history of people? I guess not. Well in either case, Turkey won't do anything about anything. They just talk smack and if they ever did decide to 'avenge' themselves on Syria, even a bush league fourth rate rockpile like Syria would inflict heavy damage on Turkey. Like every other Islamic tyranny, their armies are for mass murdering unarmed women and children. I shouldn't worry about the dreaded Turkish threat.
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