Posted on 10/02/2015 9:17:45 AM PDT by ETL
BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than the Islamic State fighters it said it was targeting and drawing an increasingly angry response from the West.
The U.S.-led coalition that is waging its own air war against Islamic State called on the Russians to halt strikes on targets other than Islamic State.
"We call on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and to focus its efforts on fighting ISIL," said the coalition, which includes the United States, major European powers, Arab states and Turkey.
"We express our deep concern with regard to the Russian military build-up in Syria and especially the attacks by the Russian Air Force on Hama, Homs and Idlib since yesterday which led to civilian casualties and did not target Daesh," it said.
ISIL and Daesh are both acronyms for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, which has set up a caliphate across a swathe of eastern Syria and northern Iraq.
In Syria, the group is one of many fighting against Russia's ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Washington and its Western and regional allies say Russia is using it as a pretext to bomb other groups that oppose Assad. Some of these groups have received training and weapons from Assad's foreign enemies, including the United States.
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Hey I can’t stop people emailing me.
Huh?
Email. It’s a thing DARPA invented for online communication. People send me email. I can’t stop them from doing it and laughing at the idiocy you two display in the body of the text.
Thanks for clarifying, I think. So some random asswipes who got their butts kicked in an internet argument somewhere, email you privately because they are too much of a pussy to converse in public?
HUH?????
....”Sounds like the Russians must be making some headway against the “good” terrorists that US and its allies are backing”.....
I get a kick out of Kerry and Obama trying to protect these terrorist groups..... yet slams Russia for taking them out....as if they didn’t know Russia was supporting Assad.
In War truth is surely the first victim....the propaganda war is in full swing to protect Obama and Kerrys butt.
I refer you to my comment #122.
What’s RT been tweeting?
.....”Putin isnt going to kowtow to wimpy Muslim lover Obama”.....
My gosh Putin’s been giving the whole world a heads up for months regarding Syria, where he stands and what he would do if the US coalition failed.....well it did fail....and now they’re getting their pants in knots because Putin’s following through just as he said and as if Putin shoring up Assad was a new development....what idiots!
Well you gotta understand my position here. Let me try to explain this better.
you ever see Blade runner? You know the part where Roy and Harrison Ford are on the roof in the rain and he hives the speech about having seen things you people wouldnt believe? Well the internet has a L O T od stuff on it. Pretty much anything if you look hard enough. But it’s about a dead set certainty that you kicking someone’s ass in an internet debate didn’t happen with anyone over the age of 5.
So you can understand my confusion. Oh wait. It’s you. you don’t understand much about much of much.
What’s RT been tweeting?
I don’t know I don’t tweet...nor do I follow what Rt does....just the norm that’s posted or read by most. They do have on an occasion a good article, just as our media does, even though we know all media’s going to slant the news according to their country’s interests.
He was mocking you.
Rutger Hauer tells Harrison Ford (in that scene) that, “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe....” He never questions what Ford has seen. So you are incorrect. Again.
...”He was mocking you”....
Of course he was, that’s what he and his buddies do...doesn’t mean I have to play according to their rules of engagement...:)
Yeah, yeah . . . I know. Post something from MSNBC here and it gets rocked, but RT should get some slack.
I’m just happy you don’t type in Cyrillic.
Amazing. You can’t even comprehend a simple refrence context without getting it all screwed up. No wonder you live in Detroit.
What’s not amazing is that, whenever you bring up Detroit, it signals that you’re out of bullets.
Well MSNBC is pretty much hated here on FR....where as RT does get a pass from time to time because at least we know the perspective which they are coming from...unlike MSNBC who’s a flat out traitorous network.
Well Detroit sure isn’t ;)
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