Russians tell US to remove warplanes from Syria, senior official says

FOX ^ | September 30, 2015

[nuconvert]

EXCLUSIVE: Russian officials have demanded that American warplanes exit Syrian airspace immediately, a senior U.S. official told Fox News early Wendesday.

The official told Fox News that Russian diplomats sent an official demarche ordering U.S. planes out of Syria, adding that Russian fighter jets were now flying over Syrian territory. U.S. military sources told Fox News that U.S. planes would not comply with the Russian demand

[RummyChick]

Anyone know what this says?

[kabar]

You didn't answer my question, "What President has received 50% of the vote of the total population?"

The answer is none, yet you use that logic to diminish Obama's election victories by 10 million in 2008 and 5 million in 2012. It is your feeble attempt to delegitimize and diminish him. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Obama and his transformation of this country, but the fact that he didn't receive 50% of the vote of the total population is not one of them.

You are pretty thick if you didn't understand the point I was making by asking that question.

[RummyChick]

Media war has begun. radiofreesyria:

pics claiming Putin killed mostly women and children

[kabar]

ISIS is not a threat to the US?

[tcrlaf]

British foreign minister:
Russia should confirm that the airstrikes are against al-Qaeda fighters or ISIS and not the opposition fighters.

[Mariner]

"pics claiming Putin killed mostly women and children"

That will not deter Putin or Assad.

[RummyChick]

LOL:
just1fix2004 ‏@Just1fix2004 4m4 minutes ago McCain: Putin wants to play king maker. McCain, now reportedly seeking compensation from the labour board for Putin stealing his job.

[Mariner]

"Russia should confirm that the airstrikes are against al-Qaeda fighters or ISIS and not the opposition fighters"

They ARE the opposition. The only opposition in Syria IS Islamist.

[piasa]

Not true- there are several Christian groups fighting as well.

[Mariner]

"Not true- there are several Christian groups fighting as well"

Who?

I know only of Christian Group forming militias to proect themselves from the Islamists.

[duckln]

BACKGROUND Iran has long been trying to acquire the S-300 to bolster its air defenses and protect its nuclear infrastructure. Tehran and Moscow originally signed an $800 million contract for the S-300 in December 2007 after a long and apparently fraught eight-year negotiation. Following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1929 in June 2010 -- which banned the transfer of most arms to Iran, but not SAMs -- Russia announced three months later that it would not fulfill the contract, returning Iran's $166.8 million down payment. In response, Tehran sought punitive damages for the canceled sale, bringing a $4 billion claim against Russia's state-owned arms export company Rosoboronexport to the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, a Geneva-based arm of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/russian-s-300-missiles-to-iran-groundhog-day-or-game-changer

[kabar]

The only opposition in Syria IS Islamist

And the forces of government oppression are Islamist.

[ETL]

If Israel is not threatened and not squealing, why should we care what happens there?

Israel is not threatened by a Russia-Syria-Iraq-Iran-hezbollah axis?? Are you serious?

[kabar]

Russia has since lifted the embargo and is selling the S-300 to Iran. Pentagon displeased with Iran missile sale

[wrench]

Winning an election by under 2% of the population is not something to crow about.

Less than 25% of the population voted for him. Here, I’ll do the math for you: 75% of Americans never voted for your man 0bama.

Learn a little about this thing called math before you start sling insults.

[Justa]

“They ARE the opposition. The only opposition in Syria IS Islamist.”

That is a patently FALSE accusation. You know nothing of which you post.

In the least read the Wikipedia article on the war. The war was started by secular Syrians composed of Christians, Allewites and non-Islamic Sunnis. They formed the original opposition group, the FSA. The Islamist groups, such as ISIS are a separate breed which seek to subjugate and or dominate the secularists.

[GOPJ]

If radical muslims were chaining children to beds and raping them Putin would NOT excuse it as ‘cultural’...

[kabar]

LOL. You can diminish the election of any President using the same “math.”

[duckln]

From you're article.

Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan on Tuesday said an agreement has been reached with Russia that will allow his country to receive the S-300 long-range surface-to-air missile systems by the end of the year, according to local reports.

Upshot. The missiles have not been delivered. Russia has not announced it will deliver.

[Red Steel]

An interesting situation.

So they both go bombing ISIS in Syria, or is B. Hussein also bombing and bashing Basher Assad forces that the Russkies defend?