Helicopter downed over Damascus

[Tourist]

Thank you for your consideration heli-cal

I was reading your post in total confusion until your explanatory "replies in blue" sorted it out for me. Now I understand the error of my subjugated thoughts.

Phew!

Thanks for that!
I now look forward to a bright and happy future.

[ORAC]

Grauniad: Syrian rebels claim to have shot down a Mig warplane in Idlib. Video footage purported to show the wreckage of the jet and a pilot ejecting. Activists said the pilot was later captured by the Free Syrian Army. A Syrian military source denied that a Syrian warplane had been shot down.

[Lonewolf_50]

Yep, and that's the point. It's not about litigation but protecting civilians.

I note a blythe assumption that whomever that helicopter may have been engaged with are in fact civilians, which seems to imply "non combatant" in a war of which civil war is a subset.

The two and a half forking of this thread is not surprising.

A bridge must be out somewhere.

[500N]

Ronald Reagan

"I worry what the hell is going to happen to women in these nations, also those who do not follow islam! Egypt is my biggest worry, but Libya is concerning as well."

The women were worried as well in Egypt from the programs I saw on TV
and were dead against the Islamic laws that would take them backwards.

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[heli-cal]

Thank you for your consideration heli-cal

I was reading your post in total confusion until your explanatory "replies in blue" sorted it out for me. Now I understand the error of my subjugated thoughts.

Phew!

Thanks for that!
I now look forward to a bright and happy future.

Given your post count, I'd have thought that you would have been aware that there is a minimum post content, excluding quotes.

That means one has to enter additional text or the page won't load, hence the "Replies in blue." entry, to accommodate this requirement.

I doubt that bright or happy future, just more ignorance!

I do look forward to a safer future for the citizens of the Idlib province.

[Tourist]

Thank you heli-cal.


Tell me again how sheep's bladders can be used to prevent earthquakes....

[melmothtw]

I note a blythe assumption that whomever that helicopter may have been engaged with are in fact civilians, which seems to imply "non combatant" in a war of which civil war is a subset.

There's no blythe assumption Lonewolf 50. My original post was in response to a ppruner who said that whatever the helicopter crew were doing was justified because they were obeying orders. I responded that obeying orders is not a legitimate defence and hasn't been since 1945. The thread then morphed into a wider discussion on war crimes.

My point about protecting civilians was made in this wider context and not specifically with regard the helicopter crew.

[ORAC]

Syrian fighters 'take over part of airbase and shoot down bomber jet'

Video footage showed the burning wreckage of a Syrian air force jet in Idlib province where there has been an upsurge in attacks by the opposition targeting the regime's helicopters and aircraft. Rebel cameramen chanted "God is Great" as the plane, reportedly shot down by heavy machine gunfire, fell near the Abu Zuhour military base on the Turkish border. "The two pilots who parachuted from the plane were captured," said Colonel Afif Mahmoud Suleiman, head of the rebel Military Council in Idlib.

The Liwa al-Ummah brigade based in the same province said they had taken advantage of the regime's concentration of attacks on nearby Aleppo to mount a massed attack on the Taftanaz airbase further east. The brigade, which has links to fundamentalist Libyan groups, distributed pictures of at least five helicopters burning on Wednesday night and the rebels were in control of at least one section of the airbase yesterday. The conquest of an airbase would amount to a significant breakthrough for the Syrian rebels.....

[Courtney Mil]

I'd have thought that you would have been aware that there is a minimum post content

10 characters, mate.

[Tiger_mate]

Nice one......

[TWT]

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