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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: TheDon

“That may be the reason Russia provoked Turkey. Rumor has it Turkey is supporting ISIS. This could be the excuse Russia uses to take them out.”

Jeeze, from the published flight paths, the Russians barely dipped into Turkey and certainly didn’t attack Turkey.

But Turkey is DEFINITELY supporting ISIS. I suspect that Russia really wants to field-test their S-400 Ground-to-Air missile system (clearly the best in the world) against NATO...now they have the justification. If I were a Turkish pilot, I would be VERY, VERY, CAREFUL.


221 posted on 11/24/2015 2:19:37 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: BobL

——the Russians barely dipped into Turkey——

that is obamaesque pacifist thinking.

the correct thinking is .... give them an inch and they will take a mile


222 posted on 11/24/2015 2:24:56 PM PST by Thibodeaux (this time really is different)
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To: Thibodeaux

“——the Russians barely dipped into Turkey——that is obamaesque pacifist thinking...the correct thinking is .... give them an inch and they will take a mile”

Not quite. OBAMA should be CONGRATULATING the Russians for flying a more direct route and thus minimizing the carbon footprint of their fighter jets. Obama couldn’t care less if Russia pushes us further off the world stage, THAT IS HIS GOAL.


223 posted on 11/24/2015 2:33:40 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: BobL

well, in those terms I will concede a little

however, Obama had nothing to do with the Turkish effort and is basically outside the store with his nose pressed to the window

An Americentric view is not warranted when America is not allowed to participate by a flopeared pacifist coward


224 posted on 11/24/2015 2:44:24 PM PST by Thibodeaux (this time really is different)
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To: corlorde
We have been flying thousands of sorties for well over a decade and bombing just about the whole time, and yet the Islamic State is a dug in and entrenched thorn in the world's side.

That is because islam = ISIS. The "religion of peace" teaches its adherents that there is no peace until nothing that is not islamic remains alive.

225 posted on 11/26/2015 10:48:50 PM PST by womanvet (Amnesty for aliens? Will the Roswell critters get to vote?)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; SamAdams76

“Austria got Hungary and fried Turkey in Greece”

A phrase to remember who allied with whom in WWI.


226 posted on 11/29/2015 8:56:18 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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