Russian, Syrian Officials Deny Their Planes Hit Refugee Camp
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT (AP) — Russian and Syrian officials denied Friday that their aircraft struck a camp for people displaced by fighting in an airstrike that killed 28 the previous evening. The denials came as activists said a coalition of rebels and militants, including Syria's al-Qaida branch, seized a strategic village from pro-government forces near the contested city of Aleppo.
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A Russian military official said Friday that no Russian or any other aircraft made flights over the camp in Sarmada, home to about 2,000 internally displaced people who fled the fighting from the surrounding Aleppo and Hama provinces over the past year.
Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that the Russian military had closely studied data from an air space monitoring system and determined that no aircraft had flown over the camp on Wednesday or Thursday.
Konashenkov said the destruction seen on photographs and videos suggested the camp could have been shelled, whether intentionally or by mistake, from multiple rocket launchers that the Syrian al-Qaida affiliate, known as the Nusra Front, has been using in the area.
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7962
(11,841 posts)saying THEY did it to make the Russians look bad.
we wouldn't be having any of these problems if certain countries weren't violating Syria airspace. Imagine if the US, NATO, Israel and the middle east dictatorships weren't flying their air crafts inside Syria? any airstrike in Syria would be blamed on Russia or Syria.
But then again, the "civil war" would have ended a few weeks after it started(assuming it could have even started without outside help) if not for outside interference.
7962
(11,841 posts)Syria had to use chemicals to stop the advances of the opposition.
And at this point in time & attitudes of that area being what they are, I am caring less and less how long they kill each other.
Iran/Iraq for 10 yrs was another example.
Redwoods Red
(137 posts)The Syrian opposition, politically represented by the Syrian National Coalition, receives financial, logistical, political and in some cases military support from major Sunni states in the Middle East allied with the U.S., most notably Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey. From early stages of the civil conflict in Syria, major Western countries such as the U.S, France, and the UK provide political, military and logistic support to the opposition as well as rebel groups in Syria that are not designated by them as terrorist....
The Salafist groups are partially supported by Turkey, while the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant received support from several non-state groups and organizations from across the Muslim World....
