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Warplanes strike Syrian town hit by chemical attack
The Times of India ^ | Saturday, April 8, 2017 | The Associated Press

Posted on 04/08/2017 12:41:01 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Beirut: Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory US missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be "cosmetic" if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power.

The airstrikes on the opposition-held northern town of Khan Sheikhoun, where 87 people were killed in the chemical attack earlier this week, killed a woman and wounded her son, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, an activist collective.

Elsewhere in Syria, US-led airstrikes killed at least 21 people, including a woman and her six children who were fleeing on a boat across the Euphrates River near the Islamic State group's self-styled capital, Raqqa, the target of a major offensive by US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces, activists said.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ap; assad; chemical; fakenews; falseflag; isis; islam; jihad; missile; muslim; sheikhoun; trump; trumpsyria; war
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1 posted on 04/08/2017 12:41:01 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Alright Turkey STFU.

The bombings were because of CHEMICAL WEAPONS, which I don’t 100 percent believe was used by the Syrians. But whatever. That’s done.

We ARE NOT fighting Syria for Turkey, who let ISIS flow back and forth through their country like water and watched from their tanks as kurds desperately fought ISIS AND bought ISIS oil.

You shouldn’t even be in NATO you extremist sick muslim country.


2 posted on 04/08/2017 12:58:16 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Jyotishi

I just saw a strange airplane.

I live in the Florida Panhandle. I was sitting on my porch watching a couple of commercial airliners probably from Panama City. They were both headed roughly NW but in slightly different directions.

As they faded in the distance, I saw another approaching from just slightly South of West and headed just barely North of East. It immediately struck me as different from the others. First it appeared to be going much faster and second, it just looked different.

I was viewing through good Nikon Tropical 7X50 binoculars and it looked almost like a cruise missile but more probably a large drone. I realize a cruise missile could not start from my area and reach any interesting place.

I took two quick photos but it was so far away that they are little more than blobs. I will upload one anyway and post it just in case anyone can recognize what it is.

I do want to stress just how fast it was moving tho I never heard a sonic boom.


3 posted on 04/08/2017 1:00:15 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: dp0622

Turks are pigs.


4 posted on 04/08/2017 1:01:14 PM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! HE KILLED OBAMACARE REPEAL AND WILL KILL TAX REFORM!!)
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To: yarddog

F-22 out of Tyndall?


5 posted on 04/08/2017 1:03:04 PM PDT by AF_Blue (I nominate Ted Nugent for Secretary of the Interior.)
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To: ZULU

What did pigs ever do to you? :)


6 posted on 04/08/2017 1:04:24 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: yarddog
 photo DSC01282 copy_zpsjcfoo4rr.jpg

Cropped to an extreme degree and like I said hardly more than a blob but just maybe someone recognizes what it is.

7 posted on 04/08/2017 1:04:32 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: AF_Blue

It was much clearer through the binocular but definitely not an F-22 out of Tyndall or an F-35 from Eglin.


8 posted on 04/08/2017 1:06:00 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Jyotishi

This is just Assad converting more ISIS fighters into innocent civilians.


9 posted on 04/08/2017 1:07:43 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: dp0622

Re your post 2: Yeah! Sums it up pretty well.

Turkey and Saud want to play “Let’s you and him fight”.

Trump may have done this more for the Chinese and the Norks, as an example of how he won’t be pushed too far. The Chinese proverb that fits here is: “Kill the chicken and let the monkey watch.”


10 posted on 04/08/2017 1:08:36 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Let’s him and you fight. :) I like that.

Yeah if the missile attack dies here and the missiles sent a message, great.

If Syria doesn’t use chems again, then it’s business as usual.

#### Turkey and the 9/11 murderers, the sauds.


11 posted on 04/08/2017 1:11:26 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: yarddog

Well... I see a large wing.... maybe a messed-up flight plan and somebody had to move fast.


12 posted on 04/08/2017 1:11:53 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: txhurl

I guess the jet stream is blowing that way too. I remember once flying from Tulsa to Atlanta and the pilot told us we were going to be early because we had a tail wind really blowing.


13 posted on 04/08/2017 1:17:29 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Jyotishi
...as Turkey warned that a retaliatory US missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be "cosmetic" if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power.

That statement makes no sense. Is that cognitive dissonance coming from Turkey or AP?

14 posted on 04/08/2017 1:19:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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To: yarddog

Also, int’l VIPs to MarALago have to be gotten up and out of the traffic a little quicker.


15 posted on 04/08/2017 1:21:16 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: yarddog

If all I had to go on was the picture I’d say it was an MD-80. But you said it was going a lot faster, so I don’t know.


16 posted on 04/08/2017 1:22:58 PM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: txhurl

A small private jet?


17 posted on 04/08/2017 1:27:32 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mr. Douglas

OK. I just looked up an MD-80 and am no longer excited. I think that is what it was. The fact that it was flying almost left to right instead of away from me as the other airliners were, probably gave an illusion of much faster speed.

The only thing the view through the binoculars seemed different was the fuselage looked almost totally parallel except for the tail and nose.


18 posted on 04/08/2017 1:30:45 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog
It's Superman or Supergirl. No, I'm wrong. It's both of them. 😉
19 posted on 04/08/2017 1:31:10 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (If America Cared would a moslem cair?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
殺雞儆猴
20 posted on 04/08/2017 1:38:41 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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