Posted on 03/18/2016 5:45:02 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
ISIS has claimed to have killed five Russian soldiers during fighting in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.
In a statement, the group also said it killed several members of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group and fighters belonging to the Syrian armed forces.
It claimed: 'The soldiers of the caliphate, by the grace of God, have killed five Russian soldiers and six members of the Syrian army.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They will pay for each one a hundred fold.
These things usually appear first on Live Leak if they are real - and so far today nothing. Maybe ISIS had 5 of their Russian Chechen fighters killed and somehow things got mixed up - right now ISIS is not having much luck on the Syria battlefield with large numbers being killed every day.
Mr. Putin will not let his boys go unavenged.
The headline: “ISIS killed” and the first sentence “ISIS has claimed . . .” do not quite match. My guess: They shot at a Russian, escaped alive, and went home to brag (and to molest someone/something defenseless).
Putin is not obammy.
There will be a answer for this.
No they won’t Putin is going home. He was a disappointment if you ask me.
Goodness gracious, Russians vs Muslim fanatics is like the Harlem Globetrotters vs the Washington Generals.
The Russians always get killed and retreat. Afghanistan/Chechnya and now Syria
They pulled out the fighters but are bringing in more of the newer advanced attack helicopters. Doesn’t sound like he’s going home to me.
Tell that to the legacy of Stalingrad. Afghanistan? Yes, the CIA was infusing so many Stingers into Afghanistan to the Mujis it wasn't funny? Today in Syria? Obama is leading from behind - way, way behind.
Oh I didn’t know. Thanks for the update.
winoneforthegipper: Well that may have been a premature withdrawal.Putin's goals included causing chaos; to stopper-up a pipeline project or two; to revive the price of crude; to pry the Iranians loose from Syria. He accomplished numbers one and four. The big show he put on didn't accomplish anything durable on the ground, and now ISIS -- which wasn't getting hit or perhaps not even targeted by the air strikes anyway -- will surge back in, and Assad's consolidation of his remaining fiefdom will totter on a while longer.
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