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Showing posts with label aircraft. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Ukraine shot down passenger plane with western-made missile

 

Il76 with 65 Ukrainian Prisoners being repatriated,

was shot down by Ukraine with Western missile


Anneke de Laaf


So it was Kiev, as initially stated by Ukrainian media. Now the question is, was it American or French? 🤔




MOSCOW, January 31 – RIA Novosti. An examination of the destructive elements in the skin of the Il-76 preliminary confirms that the plane was shot down by a Western-made anti-aircraft missile system, a representative of the emergency services told RIA Novosti.

“A preliminary examination of the destructive elements found on the plane shows that the missile belongs to a Western-made air defense system,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

However, he did not specify other details.

On January 24 , the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 over the Belgorod region , in which 65 Ukrainian prisoners were being transported for exchange. All of them, as well as three accompanying officers of the Russian Armed Forces and six crew members died.

President Vladimir Putin called the incident a crime of Kyiv against its own citizens. According to him, the Ukrainian side knew that there were Ukrainian Armed Forces prisoners of war on board the Il-76, and nevertheless struck - either through negligence or on purpose. Judging by the evidence, the plane was shot down by an air defense system made in France or the USA , the head of state specified.

Ukrainian media first wrote that the Il-76 was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but after information about prisoners on board appeared, they removed this information from their websites. Later, Kyiv indirectly admitted that it shot down the plane: the Main Intelligence Directorate complained that Russia allegedly did not notify about its flight. In addition, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after reports of a hit on the aircraft, stated that it would continue to take measures to destroy delivery vehicles in the Belgorod-Kharkov direction.

Officially, Ukraine declares the need for an international investigation, but unofficially the local media launched a thesis that the Il-76 allegedly carried missiles for the S-300 systems. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that an international investigation is “definitely necessary” if it focuses on the crimes of the Kiev regime.

In turn, the Foreign Ministry emphasized that the crash of the Il-76 “raises a big question about the possibilities of at least some kind of agreement” with Kiev .



Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Brussels Attacks Show ISIS is 'Winning' - Former CIA #2

The question all Muslims need to answer

Former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell. © Win McNamee
Former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell. © Win McNamee / AFP

Following the terrorist attacks on Brussels' Zaventem Airport and Metro stations, the former deputy director of the CIA said the jihadist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISISI/ISIL) is "winning" in its efforts to attack Western targets.

Michael Morell, deputy director of the CIA for more than three years during Obama administration, said Tuesday on CBS 'This Morning' that the Brussels attacks are a "reflection of how large, how compartmented, how sophisticated the ISIS capability is in Europe."

While the US continues to strike IS targets in Syria and Iraq, the jihadist group is "growing rapidly in the rest of the world," he added.

"So I would say they're winning, right? They're winning, and we're going to have to find additional approaches to try to undermine them," Morell said.

Morell added that he believes IS has "more territory today around the world than they did at any time, and they've conducted now attacks in Paris, San Bernardino and now in Brussels."

IS has developed a sprawling jihadist network that originated from Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which emerged following the US invasion of that nation in 2003.

As of March 15, the US-led coalition of countries fighting IS has conducted 10,962 airstrikes against IS targets, with more than 7,300 of those strikes occurring in Iraq. The US has conducted 8,386 of those total strikes. As of February 29, the cost of "kinetic operations" against IS, which began in August 2014, was $6.5 billion, according to the US Department of Defense.

Well, somebody is benefiting from this war. It's not the people of Syria or Iraq; it's not the Europeans who are being invaded by Islam; it's not the coalition countries that are spending kazillions of dollars on bombs and aircraft; it is, of course, the people who make those bombs and aircraft.

Coalition countries are mortgaging their children's and grandchildren's lives so that a handful of arms merchants can get filthy, and I mean filthy, rich. They are those whose massive wealth comes with the blood of millions of victims whether soldiers or innocent women and children; it makes no difference to them. They are those who always benefit from war and it would be utterly naive to think that they weren't somehow complicit in ensuring that there is always a war someplace. Gotta keep the inventory moving.

It is the senseless pulverizing of Syria and Iraq that is causing a large part of the migrant crisis. It is why Europe is being invaded at the invitation of Angela Merkel. It is why European culture is rapidly deteriorating and will be nearly obliterated in one or two generations.

This terror crisis should be bringing Europeans to their knees, not to be beheaded by Muslims, but to draw close to the real God, the only one Who can truly defeat the Satanic Cult of Islam.

Here is a question I would ask every Muslim entering Europe: Do you believe Allah rewards suicide bombers who kill infidels? 

If the answer to that question is yes, then they are someone who is sympathetic to terrorists and should have no place in Europe. Of course, the Quran permits Muslims to lie to infidels (that's us) so you have to take another step and require them to disavow those statements in the Quran or Hadith where Mohammed states emphatically that they do.

The Brussels attackers detonated bombs in a departure area of Zaventem Airport where travelers enter prior to security checkpoints. Morell said that this tactic, of setting off bombs before security, indicates that airports in the US and elsewhere must have checkpoints immediately upon entering an airport.

"Absolutely," Morell said about the need for renewed security protocol in the US. "We're going to have to adjust to what they're doing."