It’s a bad day to be a civilian airliner in Syria, as the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), which has long threatened to attack civilian aircraft in Syrian airspace, reports that it has acquired anti-aircraft weapons.
That’s just part of it, as the FSA has also acquired a lot of other “new weapons” which it says will be enough to impose significant changes in the ongoing Syrian Civil War.
The weapons apparently did not come from the United States, which has promised to start arming the FSA and other rebel factions but hasn’t gotten around to it yet. The FSA would only say they came from “brotherly nations that support the Syrian revolution.”
Which probably means the GCC nations, led by Saudi Arabia, who have been the most proactive in sending arms to the rebels for quite some time. The US has been facilitating such arms shipments for a long time, but it is apparently only recently that they are including more advanced weaponry, an attempt to prop up the stagnated rebellion.
Well well well, what did anyone think that Saudi Arabia or UAE beside money and weapon would give to these bandits and barbarians…, baklava or heart kabob..?
god bless amerika—WARMONGER #1…. of planet earth..! HOOAH
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 | Posted by WorldTribune.com
"Four days after pledging aid for Syrian rebels, Obama backs down"
"WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, less than a week after
approving U.S. military aid to Sunni rebels, has backed away from proposals
meant to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Obama, in his first interview on the subject, acknowledged that he was
skeptical over measures to restrain Assad’s military amid its offensive
against the rebels."
"Bloomberg plays hoax against Obama"
"When Bloomberg published an unattributed story claiming the US Secretary of State was advocating military action in Syria that would likely lead to a full-scale military confrontation between the United States and Russia, no one asked questions.
The White House, busy at the G 8, couldn’t respond. A denial of something to fanciful and far-fetched would, in itself, give the story credence.
Bloomberg knew this. This is why they felt free to publish, knowing a denial would not be forthcoming.
In the real world, a story like this would represent a major intelligence leak at the White House. Policy level conferences involve the highest imaginable security clearances.
Leaks from such meetings can and should mean decades in prison, unless, of course, the stories are totally fabricated.
There was no mention by the White House of a leak. There was no leak. There should never have been a story.
There was only the abuse of a free press by an organization seeking to use the platform of “mainstream journalism” to sell imaginary international plots and sow the seeds of war and suffering.
The problem is, these stories, once invented, each either a total hoax, always unsourced, always an attractive mythical narrative meant to feed wild conspiracy theories, aren’t coming from “blogosphere” but from multi-billion dollar news organizations.
From there, they seed into the conspiracy sites on the internet, become even wilder and more speculative and reverberate and grow like ripples on a pond."
I personally put the blame sqaurely on Saudie Arabia and the GCC when a civilian airliner is brought down over Syrian airspace. Also due to the nature of these terrorist animals it will only be a matter of time until civilian aviation is threatened in western countries by these new weapons leaking into the hands of lunatics who have a broader agenda. I cant believe after 9/11 that western nations would even allow this to happen. This whole thing is like a cancer patient who decides to start smoking and taking plutonium baths…its suicide. If there is any justice in this world a reconing will come to authoritarian, evil and terror spreading nations like Saudie Arabia. At least oil is a finite resource and one day their choke hold on the world will come to an end….although not soon enough.
Fair's fair – Syria should start sending MANPADs to Al Qaeda in the GCC and Saudi Arabia to take out a few of their airliners
Or at least a few of those private Gulf Streams. That would shut SA up and fast