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BREAKING: Second pilot found dead amid reports rescue helicopter also DOWNED
UKexpress ^ | 11/24/15 | Leda Reynolds

Posted on 11/24/2015 4:40:24 AM PST by winoneforthegipper

A RUSSIAN helicopter has been downed while searching for the pilots who ejected from their burning jet after it was shot down this morning while flying over Syria, according to unconfirmed reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: helicopter; iran; pilots; russia; syria; turkey
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To: SamAdams76

I am starting to hanker for some good side dishes along with the turkey. And pie. Chocolate cream pie with meringue topping. Yep, that’ll do it.


101 posted on 11/24/2015 6:08:56 AM PST by tioga
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To: FR_addict
Turkey's news agency Dogan repeats reports that Turkmen commanders have stated that their forces shot both Russian pilots while they were parachuting down, and that they have the bodies.
102 posted on 11/24/2015 6:10:12 AM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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To: corlorde

they have more money than us! we are nearly 20 trillion in debt!


103 posted on 11/24/2015 6:10:41 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: lancium

Haha. I was just going to post a new story about the meeting. You beat me!


104 posted on 11/24/2015 6:10:49 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: FreedomPoster
And they had massive logistics help from the USA. If you’ve never seen the detailed list of what we sent, it is staggering.

I've heard a story that among the supplies sent were boxes of condoms, which the Russians refused, saying that the condoms were good enough for Americans, but they simply weren't big enough for Russian men. In an attempt to rectify the problem, the U.S. condom manufacturers were asked to produce a super-sized condom to fit the supposed Russian studhorses. The company awarded the contract complied, but stamped each box of the extra-large condoms with the word MEDIUM.

Just an anecdote, and probably apocryphal, but it's funny nonetheless!

105 posted on 11/24/2015 6:11:05 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: b4its2late

Britain’s foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, has accused a Labour MP of being an “apologist for Russian actions” after questions were raised in Parliament about Turkey’s reliability as a British ally.

LOL. A catfight.


106 posted on 11/24/2015 6:13:43 AM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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To: Alberta's Child

Hopefully the Russians will pick up the pace in killing the Muslim menace.


107 posted on 11/24/2015 6:14:01 AM PST by ohioman
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To: lancium

Interesting French pres hollande has a scheduled meeting with Obama and a news conference at 1130. From there, he is scheduled to go to Russia.


108 posted on 11/24/2015 6:14:03 AM PST by lancium
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To: McGruff

According to the Telegraph, the Free Syrian Army shot down the helicopter searching the wreckage, using US-made missiles. “The Rebels’ usage of these American-made TOW missiles has increased over 800 per cent since Russia began air strikes against them at the end of September.”

Zerohedge quote sums it up:
“US-backed forces supported by Ankara and Riyadh are now using weapons supplied by Washington to shoot down Russian aircraft.”


109 posted on 11/24/2015 6:14:42 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Smokin' Joe

Who said anything about warm and fuzzy? I just quoted an old saying.


110 posted on 11/24/2015 6:14:55 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Enjoy your Thanksgiving Day!)
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To: Patton@Bastogne
>>>Mother of God ... This mess will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it ...

Funny...I had the EXACT same thought when I saw this article. I watched HFRO...for about the 20th time...just last week.

111 posted on 11/24/2015 6:15:15 AM PST by NELSON111
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To: winoneforthegipper

Look at the bright side. The Kurds are FINALLY about to get the weapons they’ve been hoping for. IN SPADES!!


112 posted on 11/24/2015 6:15:46 AM PST by The Toll
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Didn’t we and Germany just recently remove our ground to air missile
defense from Turkey?


113 posted on 11/24/2015 6:16:08 AM PST by duckln
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To: The Antiyuppie
Stalin supposedly said words to the effect that quantity has a quality of its own.

If I know my history, that would probably be true of the U.S. as well. The Germans had fantastic equipment, based not only on superior German engineering and German standards of quality, but we had worse equipment in quantities such that if something broke or was destroyed it could immediately be replaced. There's a lesson in that for people fighting wars.

114 posted on 11/24/2015 6:16:51 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: 4rcane
Why do ppl side with Turkey and ISIS on here?

Not me. This is what the Founding Fathers called "an entangling alliance." The Turks have been using and abusing NATO more than participating in it since Erdogan took power.

115 posted on 11/24/2015 6:17:07 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dp0622
I don’t see what Russiana gain by starting World War 3.

Russia's economy runs on oil, and with prices down, so is revenue. If they can't have the pipelines they want, they can at least reduce the supply from 'troubled' regions, and such geopolitical instability has a way of raising oil prices by itself. Any loss of marginal capacity in the world oil markets will increase prices, and Russia would benefit from that.

116 posted on 11/24/2015 6:17:39 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Check this angry Russian babe.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/704/amz/vivo/live/images/2015/11/24/101a1faf-098e-474d-810e-a9f2b7081f88.jpg

“The pilots that were shot down, were fighting with terrorists, to save your and our civilians” the sign reads in Moscow


117 posted on 11/24/2015 6:18:05 AM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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To: PoloSec

In this case Russia is not the evil force.


118 posted on 11/24/2015 6:18:42 AM PST by duckln
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To: corlorde
Unless everyone is talking about a massive ground invasion, Russia, the United States, France and whoever will be "bombing and backing their pet rebels" until the cows come home.

Indeed, what's to bomb that's going to make a difference? It's like fighting a cockroach invasion with a howitzer. Lots of bang, but not much effect.

119 posted on 11/24/2015 6:20:32 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Enlightened1

Hussein always sides with our enemies.

Unfortunately, he also owes Russia big time for the success of the insertion spy team “discovered” shortly after his coronation that we couldn’t send home fast enough.

We’ve heard how how our military supplies are “accidentally” dropped to ISIS, and the Fraud WARNS our targets in advance when he feels absolutely forced into some actual air strikes.

And half of American voters would be happy to elect him again.

Stupid leftist freaks.


120 posted on 11/24/2015 6:21:56 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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