Posted on 09/30/2015 1:04:26 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Syrians living in rebel-held areas of Homs province have seen a lot of destruction in four years of war, but say the Russian air force unleashed a whole new level of devastation in air strikes on their towns on Wednesday.
Jets flying at higher altitudes than the Syrian air force emitted no noise to alert the people below to raids reported to have killed at least 33 civilians, including children.
"We have been exposed to a wide range of weapons over the last five years, but what happened today was absolutely the most violent and ferocious, and the most comprehensive in the northern Homs countryside," said a doctor in the town of Rastan, speaking from one of the areas targeted by the jets.
"As I speak to you now the mosque minarets are warning of planes in the sky and warning that gatherings of people should disperse," he told Reuters, declining to be named out of fear for his safety.
He said the 11 people killed in the town, some 12 miles north of the city of Homs, included three children and their father who died along with two visitors when their home was hit. "It was as if the house never was," said the doctor, who helped treat casualties from the attack.
He and others on the ground had no way of knowing for sure the jets were Russian when they struck in the morning. But their altitude, the way they manoeuvred, and later reports that Russia had started air strikes, with Rastan among the targets, left them in little doubt.
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How about his aggressive actions in the Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe? Or his record of arming and supporting many of America's enemies? His heavy crackdown on opposition voices, including numerous members of the press who have been terminally 'silenced'? Of his 'alleged' poisoning of various other political foes? Of his stating that the breakup of the (mass-murdering communist) Soviet Union was the worst thing that happened in the 20th century? Or that Stalin deserves to have statues in his honor? Are you any good at reading those?
Already dealt with in #137.
Actually the Mongols brought it to the Steppes.
The Russians perfected it.
Make no mistake. Obama and Putin are on the same page.
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