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U.S.-led forces strike Syrian troops, Russia calls emergency U.N. meeting
Reuters ^ | September 17, 2016 | Angus McDowall and Andrew Osborn

Posted on 09/17/2016 3:09:51 PM PDT by Pinkbell

U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, Russia and a monitoring group said, putting a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in jeopardy and prompting Moscow to seek an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting.

The United States military said the coalition stopped the air strike against what it had believed to be Islamic State positions in northeast Syria after Russia informed it that Syrian military personnel and vehicles may have been hit.

A U.S. military official said he was "pretty sure" targets mistakenly hit in the coalition strikes were Syrian forces.

Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council after the air strikes, which allowed Islamic State militants to briefly overrun a Syrian army position near Deir al-Zor airport.

"We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.

She said the strikes threatened to undermine the ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia, which has been aiding Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war, and the United States, which has backed some rebel groups.

The Russian Defence Ministry said U.S. jets had killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers in four air strikes by two F-16s and two A-10s coming from the direction of Iraq.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group with contacts across the country, cited a military source at Deir al-Zor airport as saying that at least 80 Syrian soldiers had been killed.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: obama; russia; syria; syriaceasfire; syriawar
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To: Pinkbell
"We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.

The damage done to this country by the islamic enemy combatant in the white house is even more terrifying. The fact that people voted for this marxist muslim America-hating faggot illegal alien twice and the fact that the propaganda press is still carrying his water spells doom for America.
21 posted on 09/17/2016 3:36:25 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: MNDude

To make sure that the United States is locked into a war, even if Trump gets elected.


22 posted on 09/17/2016 3:37:21 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
‘Al Reuters’ PRINTED that?

Yeah, how’d that get by the editors aka commissars at the dnc? /s

23 posted on 09/17/2016 3:41:55 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Pinkbell

Teamobama helping team caliphate still.


24 posted on 09/17/2016 3:44:28 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready. I am deplorable.)
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To: MNDude

http://www.unz.com/article/its-all-about-russia-2/


25 posted on 09/17/2016 3:45:03 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Pinkbell

The US paid for and trained Syrian Free Army ran US soldiers out of an area yesterday, on purpose. Another quagmire.


26 posted on 09/17/2016 3:47:50 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Unfortunately


27 posted on 09/17/2016 3:49:03 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

See my post 26.


28 posted on 09/17/2016 3:50:23 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: soycd

Even with our gee-whiz high tech Buck Rodgers gizmos, this is what happens when you apply tactical air power relying on technology and third parties with their own agendas and standards for intelligence.

This is the risk of our “no boots on the ground” policy. If you are going to drop US bombs with no US pink squishies on the ground collecting intel on targets, you have to live with the larger margin of error.

Obama has been playing with fire to score political points and he just rolled craps. Now we get to see who pays and how much.

Election day can’t come soon enough.


29 posted on 09/17/2016 3:51:34 PM PDT by M1911A1 (It would have been Hillary vs. Jeb! with no Trump in the race.)
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To: Pinkbell
The US needs to get the hell out of Syria.

And it looks like the Russians are about to suppo0rt a Syrian request that occur.

30 posted on 09/17/2016 3:52:30 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Bogie

That’s why I read FR. To get the latest, unbiased, Russian propaganda.


31 posted on 09/17/2016 3:53:33 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Pinkbell

I guess the polital appointee, homo, tranny, leftist, loser, kiss-up’s who are in charge in the military aren’t up to the task. What a complete shock! Who wou8lda thunk it???


32 posted on 09/17/2016 4:04:54 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Bogie

Because Trump will get elected, Obama’s starting a war with Russia. He’s taking out more than letters from keyboards.


33 posted on 09/17/2016 4:05:48 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: soycd

“A U.S. military official said he was “pretty sure” targets mistakenly hit in the coalition strikes were Syrian forces.”....

....And, the Russians are “pretty sure” the globalist are desperate to stay in power....including moving up the schedule to provoke a war with Russia....Trump is a reasonable man, Hillary is a ultra-dangerous neo-con


34 posted on 09/17/2016 4:07:05 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: Pinkbell

What else do you expect from the Mullah in the White Mosque to perform so efficiently to drive the USA into a war in the Middle East. Come on now the guy has weakened th US Military, the queers demand equality and the Islamists are emboldened by America’s effeminate weak response. Islamist Obama who has sided with his Shia brothers from Iran, Pakistan and Syria are just developing the underpinings of the War of the World, whereby the Shia will rise up to defend their crazed prophet - Shia Islam’s prophet, Christian and Jews anti Christ.


35 posted on 09/17/2016 4:11:14 PM PDT by hondact200 (Lincoln Freed the Slaves. Obama Enslaves the Free. Trump 2016 - Make America Great Again)
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To: Pinkbell

“We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State.....”

HOW MANY VOTERS ARE AWARE THAT THIS IS TRUE?!

The US has become the EVIL EMPIRE under the O’traitor Abomistration


36 posted on 09/17/2016 4:14:30 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: Pinkbell
"We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying. "

Money shot: no mistake.

37 posted on 09/17/2016 4:18:31 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (PS - Vote Trump. Vote Coal.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

The kind of cops that Killed Jesus are with our current government. I trust Russia more than our islamist in charge.


38 posted on 09/17/2016 4:21:13 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Pinkbell

Do John Kerry, Susan Rice, Samantha Powers John McCain and Valerie Jarrett really think they can carry out this charade that this was an “ooops”

This band of mental misfits and war hawks is determined to bring down Assad and whatever is left of any organized government in Syria, and take us up to the edge with Russia with an undeclared illegal war in Syria

WHERE IS THE GOP CONGRESS


39 posted on 09/17/2016 4:23:15 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: BenLurkin

any guess on whether he wants war with Russia/Syria before he leaves, thus extending his stay?

is it more than to protect ISIS?

will this lead to a WHOLLY unnecessary world war.


40 posted on 09/17/2016 4:24:21 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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