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Russian military says special forces officer killed near Palmyra
Yahoo news ^
| 25 March 2016
| Agencies
Posted on 03/25/2016 2:46:07 AM PDT by BlackVeil
Moscow (AFP) - A Russian special forces officer has been killed near Syria's Palmyra, a military representative at the Russian base in Syria was quoted as saying by Russian agencies Thursday. "An officer of Russian special operations forces was killed near Palmyra while carrying out a special task to direct Russian airstrikes at Islamic State group targets," the unnamed representative said, ...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: palmyra; syria
"The officer died as a hero, he drew fire onto himself after being located and surrounded by terrorists," he said. Good work.
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posted on
03/25/2016 2:46:07 AM PDT
by
BlackVeil
To: Cronos; Trumpinator; SunkenCiv; BeauBo
Ping to news from Syria. I thought this may be of interest.
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posted on
03/25/2016 2:49:37 AM PDT
by
BlackVeil
('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
To: BlackVeil
Thanks for posting. He died fighting the good fight..RIP.
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posted on
03/25/2016 3:27:11 AM PDT
by
Dog
(..."I'm just a cook..)
To: BlackVeil
Thanks. I hope he managed to get as many Moslem scum as possible before going down
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posted on
03/25/2016 4:36:17 AM PDT
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Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: BlackVeil
Spetsnaz forward observer. RIP.
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posted on
03/25/2016 4:38:41 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: BlackVeil
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posted on
03/25/2016 12:21:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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