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Subscribe to RSSA video reportedly shot by an amateur in the Syrian city of Idlib Wednesday shows a crippled Syrian military helicopter spiraling down before it explodes in flames. Syrian rebels say they shot down the helicopter, according to The Telegraph.
The rebels reportedly have acquired heavy weapons in recent weeks, The Telegraph reported, pushing the Syrian air force to attack rebel-held zones from higher altitudes.
Syria's divided rebels have agreed to set up a joint leadership to oversee their battle to overthrow President Bashar Assad, two insurgent sources said Tuesday as fighting raged in cities across the country.
Rebels hope the decision, taken after increasing pressure from foreign supporters on them to unite, will help convince those backers that they are a credible and coordinated fighting force deserving to be supplied with more powerful weapons.
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"The agreement has been reached, they only need to sign it now," one rebel source said. Foreign supporters "are telling us: 'Sort yourselves out and unite, we need a clear and credible side to provide it with quality weapons.'"
He said Qatar and Turkey were the main drivers behind the agreement, which he added might be formally announced this month.
Since the beginning of the revolt against Assad, Western powers have been reluctant to arm the divided rebel factions.
This is the latest attempt to bring together Assad's disparate armed opponents, most of whom have fought nominally under the banner of the rebel Free Syrian Army but who in practice have operated independently, often weakened by deep rivalries.
More weapons in Syria could trigger 'all-out war'
The new leadership will include FSA leaders Riad al-Asaad and Mustafa Sheikh - criticized by many rebels because they are based in Turkey - and recently defected Gen. Mohammad Haj Ali, as well as heads of rebel provincial military councils inside Syria like Qassem Saadeddine, based in Homs province.
Fabio Bucciarelli / AFP - Getty Images
A look back at the violence that has overtaken the country.
The Syrian National Council has set Nov. 4 as the date for an opposition unity conference in Qatar, organizers said.
The 19-month-old revolt against Assad, which started as peaceful demonstrations, has mushroomed into a civil war, pitting the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against a power structure dominated by the Alawite minority.
Activists say more than 30,000 people have been killed, hundreds of thousands have fled to neighboring countries and more than a million have been displaced inside Syria as entire city districts have been rendered ghost towns by heavy shelling.
The British Observatory for Human Rights said 80 people had been killed in Syria by dusk on Tuesday, after 160 died on Monday. Heavy clashes broke out in the city of Hama, and fighting continued in Aleppo and the northern province of Idlib.
A Reuters correspondent on Lebanon's northeastern border with Syria saw a helicopter dropping explosives on the Syrian side of the frontier. Refugees unloading blankets from a pickup truck in an olive grove on the Lebanese side stopped to watch big black plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
Underlining increasing international concern about the conflict, Pope Benedict will send a group of top cardinals to visit Syria in coming days to express solidarity with its battered population, the Vatican news service said.
Envoy seeks ceasefire
U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has called on Shiite Muslim Iran, Assad's closest regional ally, to help arrange a ceasefire in Syria during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha later this month.
NATO leaders discuss the volatile situation along the Turkish-Syrian border following last week's shelling of a village by forces loyal to Syria's government. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.
Diplomatic sources said Brahimi is also trying to persuade Assad and the rebels to accept a ceasefire and allow U.N. monitors into the country to oversee it.
Brahimi, who took over after Kofi Annan quit in frustration in August, has been traveling around the Middle East trying to nudge regional powers into accepting his plan, which resembles a ceasefire Annan tried in vain to implement, U.N. diplomats said.
But diplomatic sources familiar with Brahimi's proposals said that neither Assad's government nor the fractious opposition had shown interest in halting the conflict.
Major powers at the United Nations remain deadlocked over what to do to defuse Syria's conflict.
Outgunned rebels have struggled to turn the tide of conflict against government forces endowed with tanks, jets and helicopter gunships. But Western powers have been reluctant to arm the insurgents because they perceive no coherent leadership and fear that weapons are ending up in the hands of Islamist militants increasingly evident in the conflict.
Mistrust and miscommunication have dominated relations between rebel brigades and each privately accuse the other of incompetence. Differences over leadership, tactics and sources of funding have also widened rifts between largely autonomous brigades scattered across Syria.
The rebel sources said countries who have supported the revolt but whose own rivalries have exacerbated rebel divisions agreed that it was time the rebels fight side by side.
"There will never be unity inside Syria unless the countries supporting the revolt agree because each group is supported and backed by (one) country," one source said.
"Now the countries are becoming nervous and the Syrian issue has become bigger than they expected and almost out of control."
Rebel leaders believe a common fighting front would enable coordination of multifaceted operations crucial to success against a better armed adversary.
"If a brigade wants to hit a (government) checkpoint, then an intelligence unit would check it out and then raise a report up to the (regional) command. The command will take a decision on the number of men needed for this operation and the kind of weapons plus other issues," another rebel source said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Still, it's like Assad 1000, the Rebels 10.
The UN wanted to negotiate a cease fire so they could send in monitors. LOLOLOLOL. Ya right. Neither the Syrian Government or the Rebels want a bunch of do nothing UN foreigners coming in to run the show. You gotta be kidding me. Why doesn't the UN try to do something that is actually productive for once.
Yeah so then they could have a scoreboard ..
Thank You Mr President in being wise enough to know that US Forces do not belong in Syria, and to let the Intelligence Agency find and decide who to send the Heavy weapons to, If we had Robme as President we would have hundreds if not thousands of American Deaths by now
Obama/Biden 2012 dont let Robme/Lyin Ryan send our Children to a useless death in Syria
Video translation:
"Keep shooting, Habib! Copter's hit...fire, fire again! OH MAN!!!! Seriously good shooting Habib!!! Did you see that one guy falling! And the smoke ring, Habib...wow just beautiful, a work of art!!! Ha, ha, ha, here, Habib, have swollow of goat's milk! Man, that was awesome!!!"
shouldnt be giving them anything......They are the same people who are KILLING us.....
Well, Well, I wonder how it looks when our Drones do it?? Let us see "the video tape"
Just wait until the drones come here from just about anyone, even private people---Then you will not be so cheerful, you think?
Never mind the monitors (drones) we already have from our government a few places, never mind Google!
Let Freedom ring on "the moon"----definitely not here!
Mr. Obama has special forces in country now.. They have been there for well over a month advising and I would bet we now have high tech anti air and anti tank weapons going down range..
I say those Syrian choppers should have ejection seats. Straight up into the blades !!
Apparently the helicopter had just delivered a recently released youtube video of Syrian Rebels engageing in physical relations with goats.
This was not a planned attack, it was spontaneous in nature and grew out of a protest that had started earlier.
The maker of the film has been arrested for producing such a vile, disgusting thing. President Assad condemned the man made catastrophy while giving a speech from the capital's Rose Garden.
Allahu Snackbar
Yeah straight from Obama through his buddies in the Muslim Brotherhood. The same weapons the Muslim Brotherhood is funneling to Al Qaeda for use in the attacks on our embassies and the assasination of our ambassadors.
Another resounding triumph for the Messiah Obama!
More Like ASSAD 10,000 - Al-Queida .05
Remember ASSAD has Chemical Weapons - Think He Won't use Them ?
HA HA HA HA HA Ha Ha !
I would bet the Syrians (Al qaeda) shot down the chopper with the MANPADS that Obama supplied them in Libya. You know the ones that Stevens and his other CIA buddies were trying to get(buy) back from the Rebels (cough cough Al Qaeda)in Libya
Zathrose
I'd ask you to prove it but I know you can't. I love not very bright people like you. I can always point you out to children and tell them that could be them if they don't stay in school. Thanks for being a bad example and a cautionary tale.
If you stop and think about it, if these weirdos think it is right to shoot a 14 year old girl because she wants to go to school, maybe they do need to be ruled over by an iron fist. The president should have said at the U.N. anyone so offended by a youtube video, made by some random guy, to the point of wanting to commit murder please raise your hands so the drones can target you.
Tick, tock Assad.
It's only a matter of time.
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The United States and NATO took military actions against "Yugoslavia" to support the Islamic mercenaries from Afghanistan, Iran Turkey, the Middle East and as far as Indonesia and the Philippines to fight against the Christians in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, and what happened? The Americans got 9/11 instead of gratitude. Why is it that Americans are such suckers for punishment? Blindly backing the rebels out of some twisted moral self indulgence will only open another can of worms and incur further multiple deadly backlash against Americans. There is no loathing people harbour more intense than that towards their benefactor(s). But both Democrats and Republicans (most of whom are still fighting the Cold War) are too thick to grasp that.
Go, Syrian rebels! I'll bet you could shoot a lot more of Assad's helicopters down if you only had some Stinger missiles.
Damn Al-Qaeda must have millions and millions of members/followers according to some of the people here... What is the population of Syria? How many Al-Qaeda members are there? Why do you say "Al-Qaeda" when the vast majority are Syrians? In this one case Al-Qaeda and us are on the same side just like we and the Taliban once were (Hell we even supported Saddam, the Shaw of Iran, French in Vietnam, etc.). They give weapons and money to the rebels too. They want the same thing as we do. The Muslim Brotherhood does as well. The only country that really supports Assad in the region is Iran (Iraq a little). Just annoying to hear people say buzz words like Al-Qaeda over and over again when THEY ARE F***ING SYRIANS.
People on both sides just love to beat those war drums to further their own agendas. They love trying to instill fear and scare people into siding with "their" side. It is how they stay in power and control the masses.
All I heard was Allahu Akbar
Zathrose, Obumbler gave 1.8 BILLION to thre Muslim brotherhood. I think we need to send Obumbler to jail for treason!
Vermillion Sky,
"Where are all the Jew haters, they are usually here blaming them for everything. Dems.....where are you ?"
Since when are Democrats anti-Semitic? You appear to be unaware that many Jews are Democrats.
And they have what is referred to as Warsaw Ghetto Mentality. Just give the arabs Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem, (per Ovomit), and the arabs will play nice. and if Israel is left with a 9 mile wide country that cant be defended, well the arabs wont attack, we gave em land and moved the Jews out, Just like in Gush Katif, I mean, the Gaza Strip.
More news you never hear:
Thursday
THIS IS HORRIBLE THAT IT IS NOT BEING REPORTED, SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE!!!
Fact: over 55 rockets hit southern Israel in the last three days! This is our reality in Israel. Can you imagine hearing rocket sirens and booms everyday? Do you hear about this in the news? Is the world up in arms? Is the UN convening to draft a resolution against the Hamas for firing rockets on innocent civilians? This is is the hypocritical world we live in. We will be strong and we will do what is necessary to protect ourselves.
Want to understand how scary it is to live like this? Just watch this video and begin to try to understand what millions of Israelis down south are living through right now (that the world DOESN'T care about!):
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/gazans-launch-55-rockets-mortar-shells-at-southern-israel
The murder of the 4 USA embassy people are linked to obama supplying Fast&Furious type weapons==and now bigger arms--- to his MuslimBroHOOD-Terroist buddies!!
Ah, good ole chants of Allah Akbar... with any luck the "rebels" (remember they are only insurgents when it is the U.S. government they are attacking) will eventually receive enough off-the-books foreign aid/weapons to oust their government and then the country will continue to devolve into an Al-Quida recruiting/training ground just like Libya... what a wonderful idea.
I know, and that really confounds me, because that's where most of the anti-semitic rhetoric comes from.
Unless its an election year. Then they hastily change their platform to appease the Jews. But once the election is over they can change it right back.
Thank You Mr President in being wise enough to know that US Forces do not belong in Syria, and to let the Intelligence Agency find and decide who to send the Heavy weapons to, If we had Robme as President we would have hundreds if not thousands of American Deaths by now
Obama/Biden 2012 dont let Robme/Lyin Ryan send our Children to a useless death in Syria
Not true! Obama is trying to distance from Isreal and he is a democRAT if you have not noticed! You people always try to turn things around when you feel like its in your favor! hahahahahaha Republicans are the ones that care about everyone you guys are the ones trying to make everyone think you do! Such lies you people tell! Democrats have been the biggest dividers or race, color and religion of all time! Anything to get votes!!! Shame! Unless your one of the idiots just going around repeating what others have said and you don't know any better, still shame on you for not looking past vote getting strategies!
Of all the ridiculous comments here, Wire557 makes about the only sense. The choice between the devil or satan is a hell of a dilemma. (pun intended) There are no good choices in Syria. There were no good choices in Iraq. There were no good choices in Afganistan (after we trashed the Taliban). Lesson learned from all the dead and trillions spent in Iraq: We need to stay out of other countries business especially in the Middle east. IF it takes more that a sniper or a drone, it is not worth a single American life.
IndependentinSD surely you jest.... Obama and Biden are ridiculously absent from being in charge of anything other than spending lavishly on their families at our expense. Give us a break and stop your liberal jibberish. In this particular case they are well suited to continue doing what they do best... nothing. Let them sort out their own issues. As for Romney so what let's get him in office and let us help them kill a few more in any case nobody is sending troops anywhere so hang it up and stop spinning.
Yeah straight from Obama through his buddies in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Boy, you righties are pathetic. On one hand you accuse Obama of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood while your poor-excuse-for-a-presidential-candidate Romney criticizes him for not getting involved in Syria, Egypt, and Libya. You people can't even agree on what to criticize Obama for.
Obama doesn't stand for a damned thing. That's the entire predicament we are in in the Middle East, and the rest of the entire freaking world for that matter. At least pick a damned side and be done with it so others can figure out who THEY want to fight for (among other nations and their problems around the globe). You liberal Obama voters aren't bright enough to figure that out apparently...like your president. Do the math on soldier deaths in Afghanistan under Obama and under Bush. You libs would be flabbergasted. Then again, probably not in delusion.
Well here's a reality pill for you:
"It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!"
Oh, give it up Vermillion Sky. Your last pathetic leader didn't care how many of our soldiers got killed in his quest for personal revenge against Saddam Hussein. And, 10tacle, apparently you jackass repugs aren't bright enough to realize that without George Bush beating the drums of war, there would have been NO military deaths in either Iraq OR Afghanistan....
Uh..ya...that's faked, Saw a few direct hits on aircraft by sidewinder..never seen one totally obliterated from ground fire...ever.
Seventh century Sunni Saudis, oil companies, Netanyahus and their lobbyists' dances in Syria and Iran are becoming another bunch of jokes like those before Iraqi wars.
After getting badly mauled in Iraq and Afghanistan, who in right senses will get in between centuries of Shiites vs Sunni battles?
80 percent of world problems including economic ones are due to Sunni Saudis and Pakis. Economic mess are due to high oil price manipulations using Iraq's Saddam and Iran as excuses.
Remove sanctions on Iranian oil. Oil prices have shot up from around $40 in 2009 to more than $110 now. These high oil price manipulations are adding another bunch of economic mess all over the world.
Iraqi wars and high oil prices gave us PIIGS and heavy debts in the US.
Remove sanctions on Iranian oil and keep away from Syria and Iran.
Abmaj7: pieces of them, anyway
Taliban is alive and kicking. Al-Quada is expanding into new markets. End the wars or win them. You win them by not giving them anywhere to live. If countries their in do nothing we take their country and contain them. It is our Manifest Destiny! Don't police anymore, rule over them for their own benefit and ours.
In other words stop arming and training our enemies.
Let us do: tick, tick to Sunni Saudis and Pakis to solve world's Islamic radical and terrorist hating and killings and economic problems.
Shiites of Syria, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan should go after Sunnis, who have declared jihad on them. Shiites should declare jihad on Sunnis in return!
Yeah...great plan. Then they can use the surplus or missing weapons (Libya) on civilian aircraft when they go back to jihad.
I guess you hear these Alqaida and Muslims brother hood screaming ALLAH WA AKBAR , these are Hillary's and McCain , Graham and Lieberman and Off course the Saudis and Qataris army . good job to our senators , they really care about human lives and the American people , arming these thugs the ones that attacked here on 9/11 and in Libya and Afghanistan , this is our politicians at their best . they spend more time killing and destroying countries , than doing their job in helping the American people , you know who's fault it is???? OURS we keep voting these people in , so no body complain .
It really wasn't your turn, now was it. You cut in line didn't you!
Yup, and Mittens wants to give them even MORE weapons!
I think the administration has largely played it right. Sit back and try to figure out who the players really are before taking a side and arming the next Bin Laden.
What kind of a moron are you? You know we're not arming the Syrian rebels, let alone that the Syrian rebels have no conceivable connection to 9/11, Iraq or Afghanistan. Your post is intended to ONLY bitch about Liberals - not to have any grounds whatsoever in the reality of this article. I certainly don't see you bitching about Russia sending arms to Assad - to use on his own people. This is nothing more than one country's people rebelling against a brutal dictator. When did that become a BAD thing?
I give up! How many kinds of moron are there?
You do realize that the rebels are mostly Al Quida.
jockmama-1543705 where have been my man , Hillary already committed $ 145 millions to help the Syrian rebels thugs , McCain Lieberman been to Lebanon twice trying to got a safe zone for them , every Intel. in the world tells you Alqaida and the Muslims brother hood from every corner in the Muslims world are coming to Syria , !!!!! and Santa Clause is not FOR real and the tooth fairy comes when you have dentures . I guess you voted for Sarah Palin , didn't you ???
It's kind of a shame Hillary didn't spend some of that $145MM in Benghazi; we wouldn't be short 1 ambassador, 1 assistant and 2 former Navy Seals...
I see they're chanting 'science and physics! science and physics!'
Superb post. Some never learn even after getting kicks badly in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and other places.
Send Hillarys, McCains, Romneys, Libermanns, Netanyahus to battle in Afghanistan first and then Syria and Iran.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB, Taliban and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Libya, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places).
Sunni Saudi backed Salaffi and MB new chapters are opening up in Egypt. Just watch the fate of Christians, women and Israel as the time goes by.
Even in Syria, if Assad is overthrown by Sunni Islamic religious Nazis like al-Qaida, MB, the conditions of Christians will be unbearable just like Iraq.
Pakis and Sunni Saudis and co are responsible for 80 percent of world problems including economic ones.
Examine the devastations with Iraqi wars and now sanctions on Iranian oil and the resultant oil price manipulations.
They are making the lives of their own people also miserable by their Islamic religious madness to the intolerable levels.
Obama doesn't stand for a damned thing. That's the entire predicament we are in in the Middle East, and the rest of the entire freaking world for that matter. At least pick a damned side and be done with it so others can figure out who THEY want to fight for (among other nations and their problems around the globe). You liberal Obama voters aren't bright enough to figure that out apparently...like your president. Do the math on soldier deaths in Afghanistan under Obama and under Bush. You libs would be flabbergasted. Then again, probably not in delusion.
Well here's a reality pill for you:
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Now some reality for YOU. Not sure what point you are trying to make, but you left out IRAQ (Notably, because it is just the OPPOSITE of your Afghanistan summary), given it was an illegal war, supported ONLY by the Three Amigos (US, US & Spain).
But US deaths in Afghanistan did increase each year after 2001, however, there are a two years where the deaths went down - by a whopping "ONE death". It is war, ya know - both started by GWB. Afghanistan had my total support, as well as the rest of the US & the World. I think America accepts the reality of Afghanistan, but now want to get the HELL out, post OBL! America NEVER accepted IRAQ, which is why are are MOSTLY out of there.
Feel free to selectively leave out more stuff next time you post. LOL!
I meant US, UK & Spain. My retort starts after the UNDERLINE. Somehow I did not BLOCKQUOTE Old Octopuss' comment. BTW, I an Registered Independent (Never Dem or Rep)
That was pretty tight, but Muhammad Ali with the camera was giving me a headache.
Just what I wanted to say. The camera work here would be embarrassing on YouTube: that chopper was in the frame for almost half the entire sequence. You would think that a rebel cameraman would want to show every second in loving detail...
Surprises me how everyone just watched someone die, a human life lost in a fiery explosion, yet the best thing we can think of to say is "Well his camera work could have been better."
This isn't Goddamn Hollywood.
They might be OK....................................................No, probably not now
These bad guys deserved what they got, how many innocent civilians...women, old people, and children has Assad killed.
Well Rex How many? Also tell me how many the Rebels have killed. Dont say none as there is proof that the rebels have been killing civilians and trying to blame it on the Army
@ Rex, do you think Assad was the pilot.....? You people make me sick.
he blowed up real good...
Screw them and Ahkbar too
Amen
Very nice - but don't the rebels know that the guys in the helicopter are now partying with 72 virgins? Although, I do hear they are running out lately, and have to substitute goats.
What was it that Lewis Black said? "I've seen the 72 virgins, and they're all fat and ugly." That's why they're still virgins. Duh!
where do you get virgin wool?
..................................ugly sheep!
sorry couldn't help myself!
the 72 virgins are more than likely young boys.
nice smoke ring !!!!!
the fireball was awesome as all ,looks like a 2nd "golden BB"got it again as it was crashing
Ha wait till they find out that they get 72 ugly fat Virginians, you know the inbreed ones from West Virginia
Pretty limited and unorginal vocabulary .Those muslims really need to get out more .
Let em kill each other, thats what they want, so let em
there's never been any peace in that region of the world since the dawn of time and there never will be. I hope they all blow themselves up and get it over with. Ironically...that's pretty much the birthplace of Religion?? go figure. Morons all of them.
Birthplace of religion? are you dumb it may be the birthplace of Abraham religion but that is a grand total of three out of thousands of religions out there. Now if you said the birthplace of civilization you would be right because the ancient summerians were among the very first civilizations to arise.
A low Hokbar? Shouldn't it be Aloha copter?
Yeah those hockbars are pretty low I hear ;)
or perhaps it's aloha snackbar
I thought they were loosening phlegm...
That video looks a fake. For the helicopter to totally vaporize in an explosion would be extremely rare. It could be that it was scuttled but even that would have resulted in some pretty big pieces after the explosion. Plus the "Allah Akbar" yelling sounds pretty rehearsed. I'm calling BS.
I agree MJM, where did all the parts go? The first thing I wondered was how the hell did it blow up like that in the first place? I guess they were carrying some big bomb that mysteriously went off? I don't get it.... Basically I'm going with faked video too..
Or it was a mechanical failure. It looked to be at very high altitude with no visible SAM trail. They certainly didn't bring it down with an AK.
there is something terribly wrong with anyone shouting God is great as they kill another human being. God never condoned murdering our brothers and sisters. It is a disgrace to God that people commit murder in the name of Him no matter whose side you are on. These are someone's loved ones and that video showed their last horrifying seconds of life. Disgusting, disturbing and sad. War is never the answer, and yet it will never end. I wish everyone could see the planet from outer space and see how it was meant to be...peaceful with nor borders, no racial or religious divisions and one existence.
Have you been there? In outer space? Was it a nice trip?
I suggest you offer free rocket flights to a destination of your choosing in outer space.
That's right.
Agreed on all counts. I didn't watch it and I wouldn't. I saw the Shuttle blow up in Melbourne right above me in 86'. You are correct on the explosion. Just like firing a gun - it's not like the movies. Fire a 9mm without ear protection - you might not hear the rest of the day. And, there's no exciting music in the background.
jayjay, did you know that even in our bible in the old testament that it condoned the killing of people who worked on Sundays. Yes even the mighty christian bible. This is why I do not subscribe to any religion as more death has come from religion then anything else on the face of this planet.
If I was Allah, I would be sad that my kids were killing their siblings.
Appears the vest did what the guy wanted it to do. Got all the idiots whining and arguing with each other. No wonder a trial takes so long. Next they will be painting the room a different color.
Exactly...wait, what?
Um, color me confused. What the heck are you talking about??
"Sept. 11 terror mastermind dons camouflage, delivers monologue to Gitmo court"
This was the headline my comment was meant for, but the story was changed while I was writing it. .. funny i got 3 thumbs up even so..haha
Never saw that one coming.
Chalk one up for the "good" guys.
That video looks like a fake. The helicopter is vaporized? That would be unusual. If they scuttled it, there would still be some big pieces coming out of the sky. I'm calling BS.
I doubt there are many good guys over there, the only thing that has kept the crazies in check throughout the middle east are brutal dictators, once they are removed the whole place goes to hell. the fanatics take over, the dumbest thing we ever did was remove sadam, its the only thing these people understand.
That's not a real helicopter! The side doors should be open so that the solders can appreciate the graphics engine.
Muslims vs. Muslims, leaves me nobody to root for.
Big Al
The way I see it, its win win for us......
Kind of like drug dealers killing each other in a drive-by shooting. Would be much better if they could all die in a single day.
this is all goin on while obaaaama is on the view. america will be next, and he doesn't give a damn. you who vote for him will all be sorry.
Oh yes, let's all vote for that chickenhawk Romney who'll have us in another war before the end of his first year. Obama may not be perfect, but as he said in last tuesday's debate "I'm always responsible." How many republicans are willing to admit that on national TV? I thought so...
@Michael....only if responsible means irresponsible spending of tax payers dollars, even if you don't have the money to spend....only if responsible means blaming other presidents for actions you took during your presidency. Obama is a joke and is dividing this country while doing nothing but taking vacations around the world at our expense. He has spent more money than any president in history and he is the most travelled president ever. He has done everything but his job. How is that for responsible?
Damn they took the video down.
Looks like the helicopter was suffering engine failure (from being hit by AAA or SAM) and the pilot was attempting to do an autorotation emergency landing, which he appeared to be executing correctly until the helicopter exploded. What probably caused the catastrophic explosion was a direct hit to onboard munitions by AAA fire.
why do they think they shot it down. it's a thirty year old russian helecopter. they fall out of the sky all the time. the funny thing is this is exactly the type of helecopters the afganies want the u.s. to buy them. we offered the afganies nice new american helecopters but they didn't want them.
Them camel jockeys been killing each other for 5000 years, over a sandbox, that has no real purpose on the planet....why is the media shoinvg it in our faces, everyday?
We've been sending arms to Islamic fanatics since the early 1980's. It worked so well in Afghanistan. arming the mujahadeen. They became Al Quada and the Taliban. Now we want to arm more of these clowns?
Let NATO and Turkey deal with it. The Turks ruled the ME for centuries. The Ottoman Empire will know how to deal with these "rebels".
So now you are backing Obama..?
No, he is backing the right choice. Not everything is black and white, republican and liberal. Its people that make their choices based of what their political party believes instead of what they actually believe who are ruining our country. No reason for us to get involved in that country while we are so much in debt and they dont even have a clear goal yet for their civil war. To stay out and let UN actually do something for once (attempt to is more like it) is the correct thing to do. I am not a liberal, but if the right choice is suggested by Obama, then ill support that choice. Doesnt mean I support his whole presidency.
Umm..you do realize America is part of NATO right?
The rebels are even worse than Assad - Islam Loving Mullah Puppets .......... Saying ALLAH Is GREAT !
HATRED THROUGH and THROUGH - Time AMERICANS WISE UP - YOU ARE NEXT ON THE LIST AMERICANS - KILL ALL AMERICAN BABIES ! OH YEAH They are going to watch us Kill Ourselves First With Abortion - then Come Kill All The AMERICAN ADULTS Starting With THOSE IN THE WHOTE HOUSE !
Let's Stand By......... and watch this religion Of PEACE do their thing !
"WHOTE HOUSE"?
What house would that be oh wise one?
I agree! I am tired of people trying to argue the fact that this religion and its followers are peaceful!!!! Any religion and group of followers who find excuses to shoot a 12 y.o. girl, or kill innocent ppl to fulfill their personal agendas should not be backed or entertained by America. I do not even think these people know what the hell they are fighting for at this point? They are just making @!$%# up as they go along! They are killing everyone who does not believe in their own ideals and their 72 virgin crap! I say lets stay the hell out of it, and let the whole ME just destroy each other.