The Free Syrian Army is accusing Russia of carrying out airstrikes near the Hadalat Refugee Camp, along the Syria-Jordan border. The strikes were said to have killed at least 12 people and injured “scores” of others.
Western officials said they were still gathering information on the incident, but said they’d heard it was the Russians who launched the strike. Russia’s Defense Ministry has offered no information, and such a strike would be unprecedented for them.
Casualty splits are unclear, but reports are that a number of the wounded, who were taking to Jordan for treatment, were members of the Asoud al-Sharqiya rebel group, one of the US-armed groups that operates out of Jordan.
The Hadalat camp itself is a makeshift camp for hundreds of would-be refugees stuck at the Jordan border when Jordan stopped letting people in. The Jordanian government has faced repeated pressure from the UN to allow humanitarian supplies across the border to them, though such deals have been intermittent, at best.
Our intelligence agency sucks and even our presidents have said so. So why do we think they can figure out who bombed them.
Intelligence? Putin did it. Whatever it is.
People get killed in US led wars. It’s happening every day and it has been happening since the US thought it would take advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia’s period of weakness.
But at least it’s newsworthy when the Russians get in the game and kill some poeple. It may even be true!
Jul 9, 2016 Putin: America has mush for brains!
The ‘Free Syrian Army’ is a construct of the US, made up of “moderate rebels”. At media briefings, the US State Department has never successfully defined or been able to identify the FSA from other such “rebels” or even ISIS/Daesh groupings. The “Arab Syrian Army” are the government forces of Syria. They are significant in number and loyalty, having defended Assad for the past 4 years against US and extremist occupation.
https://youtu.be/jd4qr2rW4lc
If Putin thinks American counteparts have much for brains then he’s really saying that the American people are readily consuming the mush they deliver.
Putin knows very, very well that the US has some of the most canny and most capable hawks you could find in the entire world. It’s just that they aren’t being asked to deliver a more sophisticated message that is required to sell it. Americans accept mush.
It is easy to understand news. Whatever it is — Putin did it, and let’s bomb Syria.