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Report: Russia involved in downing of Turkish jet
By infowars.com and YNet
Russian technicians played a key part in the interception and
shooting down of a Turkish warplane by Syria’s anti-aircraft defenses 10
days ago, Britain’s Sunday Times reported Sunday. Diplomatic sources in
the Middle East told the paper that destroying the F-4E Phantom II was a
split-second decision intended as a warning to NATO to stay out of
Syria’s civil war.
A source in Israel’s Air Force was quoted as saying “we would not be
surprised if these Russian experts, if they didn’t push the button, at
least were beside the Syrian officers who did it.”
The downing of the plane pushed Ankara closer to military
intervention in Syria as Turkish troops and tanks were deployed near the
border with Syria. Damascus responded by sending two tank brigades to
the border.
A long-standing client of the old Soviet Union, Syria has acquired
sophisticated air defenses from Moscow over the past four decades and is
seen as President Vladimir Putin’s last friend in the Arab world,
opposition sources say.
