According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, rebels in the Syrian Golan region shot down a Syrian Army helicopter not far from the Israeli border. Both soldiers on board the helicopter were killed in the attack.
This area, southwest of Damascus, has been a common site of fighting between the government and rebels in recent months. The area remains controlled by Islamist factions, though the government has it surrounded.
According to the Observatory’s report, a guided missile was fired at the helicopter to shoot it down. The exact type of missile or exactly which faction fired it are as yet unclear, though if it turns out to be a US-provided missile this may be another source of tension.
Not that this is necessarily the case. While the US has indeed armed a lot of the rebel factions, the Syrian War started around the same time the Libyan regime change happened, and that too put a lot of anti-aircraft weapons on the black market.
“not far from the Israeli border” Do you mean “not far from occupied Golan”?
Shush; they are not allowed to write that.
Here we go – again and again, again, again, again.
Observatory is STILL a respectable site, and their informstion reliable? T is high time to put a note of warning next to anything voming out of that British propaganda site.
And then, again, again again again, and many times more again. Al-Qaeda operating in that area are NOT REBELS.
NOT REBELS. They, like the weapons they are using came from the outside, and recruited — for money and in the name of religious fansticism anyone crazy enough to join. You are giving them LEGITIMACY and CREDIBILITY by calling them rebels.
I have no idea why is Antiwar apparently so committed to false identification of fighters in Syria.
Please, NAME the groups and their leaders you keep on calling rebels. I personally do nit know ONE respectable group or a leader of armed groups that has no record of summarily killing, torturing and threatening civilians to give them money, food, valuables. All if them have bloodyvrecord — mist if their deeds well recorded in media around the glibe, but not published in the West.
We need to come clean. Pretending ignorance is lying. For as long as we participate in the lie, it is easy for our neicon masters to jnsist that Assad must go. No, the THUGS called “rebels” must go. They never had any population support, as the story of Aleppo proves. Every time area is liberated, hundreds of thousands come home from Turkey, Lebanon or Jordan.
They are more then gratefull for being luberated. It will be usefull to publish work if jounalists in Syria. Ron Paul did. The hoax of “rebels” is shown for what it is. Just let people of Syria talk. No Observatory needed.
US made missiles are not necessarily supplied by the US, we know Israel has been arming Al-Qaeda rebels near the occupied Golan.