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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: Russia Condemns U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS and al-Qaeda; Assad Approves The Atlantic Wire In the wake of the first American-led airstrikes against Islamic State forces in Syria, we're learning that the operation did not just focus on ISIS installations and its oil trade, but also the al-Nusra Front as well. According to Reuters, strikes against the al Qaeda-linked group in northern Syria wrought a death toll of about 50. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is reporting (subscription) that the U.S.-led effort involved coordination with the Free Syrian Army, which has also just become the recipient of some American weapons. This is a joint coalition effort of which the Syrian opposition is a full-fledged member," said Oubai Shahbandar, a senior adviser to the coalition who was briefed of the U.S. strikes in advance. He was addressing concerns some elements of the opposition had that the U.S. would turn its back on the armed group and instead partner with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to defeat Islamic State militants." Russia was quick to condemn the airstrikes. TheWashington Post noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin — the patron saint of territorial integrity — decried the airstrikes as a violation of Syria's sovereignty. Russia is insistent that U.S. measures to target militants in Syria lack authority without buy-in from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — a point Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon Tuesday." Not only did Syrian dictator Bashar Assad refrain from lashing out against the American-led airstrikes, he seemingly gave a very coded thumbs up: Meanwhile, in southern Syria, Israel used a Patriot missile to shoot down a Syrian jet that was said to have encroached into Israeli airspace. From Haaretz: The jet was toppled over the Syrian side of the Quneitra border, after it had flown 800 meters west of the border into Israel and turned around. The decision to down the jet was made after 1:20 minutes of flight; when the Patriot hit the plane, the Syrian pilots had already turned around and flown back into their territory. Here is some wild footage taken by Syrian rebels of the pilots parachuting down: This was the first time a Syrian jet had been shot down since the early 1980s. As we noted last week, United Nations peacekeepers fled the Syrian side of the Israeli-Syria border after key crossings were wrested from Assad forces by the al-Nusra Front. The peacekeepers had been in place for 40 years. If you count the Israeli action along with the United States and its reported partners in Tuesday's airstrikes (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain), six different countries attacked Syria on Tuesday. This article was originally published at www.thewire.com/global/20...da-assad-approves/380634/ Poster Comment: [kenneth] 5 14 The problem is that the new coalition air force might engage in mission creep and start attacking Syrian military, or provide air support for the radical Islamic jihadist who we imagine are moderate in their radicalism. The coalition might deliberately attack Syrian military targets and they feign error. The problem is that our political leaders called it wrong in Libya, they called it wrong in Iraq, and they are getting it wrong in Syria. It is as if our government were being run by drunk and drug addled sophomores. [John] That is exactly what this is about and Assad was probably warned to say and do nothing or else. Why can't the American people figure it out instead of being led around by the nose believing the government and the media. -7 Your Suffering Feeds Me! Okay exactly who is against us and who is on our side!? Its like no matter what america does it's wrong! Should we not help anymore? because if so at least we can finally keep our money to our people and rebuild our country! I'm all for it!13-1 [Andi] And who exactly needed your help? Iraq that your country left defenseless after destroying its state? 6-3 Your Suffering Feeds Me! @andi, Any wise American who hasn't been drinking the kool-aid knows the war in the middle east was just for oil due to corrupt politicians which i didn't even vote for just FYI. So i'm not even going to humor you with that. If you were paying attention to the events up until know several countries including France banded together to start taking ISIS out. But now because we are doing something about it, it's still some how evil of us. Lastly if you read my first comment i implied America should just pull out and let the world rot on it's own so we can take care of ourselves. 7-1 Magnitude7 @Your suffering...You are correct and our government destabilized Iraq and the reason the world hate us is because we don't know how to mind our own business. The gov. that we elected to represent us, USA citizens, don't care about us, now it looks like illegal aliens have more rights than us and they are spending more of our taxes in illegal kids when our schools are needing help, our kids should be the priority. Our citizens are the priority, our country is the priority but no, our government is there to represent the big corporations. And you are correct when you said we can finally keep our money for our people and rebuild our country! 3-2 Paul @Magnitude7 US is creating enemies for itself because it is aiding Israel in the theft of land from Palestinians. US politicians allow this because the Israeli lobby helps them get elected to office. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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