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Syria's war: Swap offer for bodies of Russian air crew
Aljazeera ^ | Aug. 5, 2016

Posted on 08/05/2016 6:42:04 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Syria's war: Swap offer for bodies of Russian air crew

Group says it has bodies of five people shot down in helicopter, demands release of prisoners in exchange for corpses.

A group in Syria has reportedly demanded the release of prisoners held in Syrian and Lebanese jails in exchange for the bodies of five people who were shot down in a Russian military helicopter last week.

The Russian helicopter was downed in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province on Sunday, killing all five people on board in the biggest officially acknowledged loss of life for Russian forces since they started operations in Syria.

A Reuters news agency report said the demand was made on Thursday in a statement signed off by a group calling itself the General Foundation for Prisoners' Affairs.

The group said it wanted the release of prisoners held in Syrian government jails and by Hezbollah in Lebanon, but did not specify who those prisoners were or how many it wanted freed.

It also demanded an end to the siege of areas blockaded by the Syrian army and its allies, and for the delivery of significant amounts of humanitarian aid to people living in besieged areas.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: ransom; russia
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A venerable Mid-East tradition at work again. Take hostages and demand ransom. Even dead bodies can be hostages. Somebody needs to kill them with a flame thrower up close and personal.
1 posted on 08/05/2016 6:42:04 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Drop the prisoners out of a plane right on their heads.


2 posted on 08/05/2016 6:44:08 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Russians should say OK we’ll meet you here and then Carpet Bomb the area


3 posted on 08/05/2016 6:44:57 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: headstamp 2

Give them the prisoner’s corpses.


4 posted on 08/05/2016 6:44:58 PM PDT by VermithraxPejorative (HILLARY NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR DEMOCRAT JUDGES SOFT ON CRIME/REPEAT OFFENDERS)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Russian answer is coming...

Just be patient.


5 posted on 08/05/2016 6:45:30 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Obama would probably do it.


6 posted on 08/05/2016 6:51:39 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: VermithraxPejorative

Give them the prisoner’s corpses.

This is pure Russian ,dead for the dead


7 posted on 08/05/2016 6:51:52 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Give the Russians Obama.


8 posted on 08/05/2016 6:52:06 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: TigerLikesRooster

How about we don’t use a tactical nuke or neutron bomb on Damascus in return for the crew?


9 posted on 08/05/2016 6:52:45 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Sasparilla

Damascus????

The islamic scum don’t control that city.


10 posted on 08/05/2016 6:54:16 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Kill ‘em, burn ‘em (not necessarily in that order), and drag them out to the exchange.


11 posted on 08/05/2016 6:54:36 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Syrians are going to wish they had not tried to blackmail the bear...


12 posted on 08/05/2016 6:54:58 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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Apparently these hosers don’t understand what happens when they try to bargain with Russia

They haven’t ever read what happened in Lebanon when the Russian envoy was kidnapped and the kidnappers started receiving the body parts of their family members


13 posted on 08/05/2016 6:55:23 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

I remember that well. But that was back when the KGB was very active in the region.


14 posted on 08/05/2016 7:03:40 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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You mean, the KGB - like the agency Putin used to head?
I bet they forgot how to brutalize terrorist who try to blackmail them...

Sarc

Actually the Russian response to these towelheads ought to be epic, if we ever hear it about it


15 posted on 08/05/2016 7:06:49 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Kill them with high velocity pig bones.


16 posted on 08/05/2016 7:07:16 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: silverleaf

It actually took a few years to find out about the “unfortunate” incidences that took place in Lebanon.


17 posted on 08/05/2016 7:09:21 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: headstamp 2

first i’d fill their guts with c4 and detonators, and then do what you said.


18 posted on 08/05/2016 7:26:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

If it were my body and my family, my reply would be “go to hell!!!”


19 posted on 08/05/2016 7:55:08 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: VermithraxPejorative

“Give them the prisoner’s corpses.”

SNAP. We have a winner


20 posted on 08/05/2016 7:55:57 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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