The problem I have is that if you watch Live Leak the Syrian section you will see the Syrian rebels / ISIS seem to have unlimited supplies of the latest US anti-tank missiles. I can't find them anywhere on eBay so where are they buying these from and what happens if a few turn up in the west, a lot more punch than a pressure cooker.

@DroneDog: I think we discussed this on this very forum a few years back when the Iraqi army ran away from a fight in north/central Iraq (Mosul area?) and left quite a bit of kit lying about for the Daesh sorts to pick up at their leisure. Won't comment on other sources in the region for black market military kit, but I don't doubt that there are numerous.

Bellingcat analysis of the Syrian Red Crescent Aid convoy attack.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...-aid-analysis/

Deleted - false news report

Wander, saw one video, supposedly Russian monitoring an aid convoy and tracking an ISIS armoured vehicle. Fine but it doesn't follow that they then targeted it.

Russia's (alleged) targeting of the UN aid convoy in (alleged) response to mistaken coalition attack on Syrian forces may indicate that Russia may have taken casualties in this attack too (Russian SF?).

Did I read somewhere that the forces attacked were dressed as irregulars and driving technicals?

Hmm, it does suspiciously end before anything interesting happens. The line being spun on Russian media is that the militants then attacked the convoy (the usual Russian up-is-down black-is-white propaganda).

If that were the case it would indicate a self-destructive streak. The US claims to have informed Russian counterparts of the attack coordinates in advance and that they cynically delayed doing anything about it.

I am only going on what I see on the news, I guess if barrel bombs it would been more likely to be Assad's minions, if something more sophisticated themn I would suspect Russia, official or "deniable"

Er MSF supplied coordinates of its hospitals previously and they never seem to have been passed on.

More analysis on the Syrian Red Crescent aid convoy attack.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...convoy-attack/

Shrapnel and bomb fin expose Kremlin?s lies | World | The Times & The Sunday Times

The Kremlin’s version of events surrounding the attack on an aid convoy in which 20 civilians died is demonstrably false, according to analysts in Russia and the UK (Tom Coghlan and Tom Parfitt write).

The Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), an independent, Russia-based group of analysts, used geo-location technology to analyse drone footage released by Moscow to support its claim that a rebel military vehicle towing a large mortar was travelling with the doomed convoy. After studying the position of the sun and satellite images of the location, they concluded that the footage was filmed five hours before the attack and almost four miles from where it took place.........

Claimed to be footage from the Red Crescent convoy attack. Aircraft cannon fire at 1:05, 1:40. 2:21 missile strike?

That Bellingcat report...

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...convoy-attack/

How come the medicine packaging around the bomb (intentional explosive) is untouched.

Possibly the bomb tail is from a previous attack on the building/compound? Possibly the bomb didn't explode?

Claims that the Russian UAV convoy footage shows that the hole in the roof was already there prior to the convoy being attacked.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtOMDCCWAAA_hzk.jpg:large

Exactly - the important thing is to bomb, isn't it ? and you wonder why they still hate you for that....

Regarding Syria, immediately after the US/UK strike, jihadists came out of their trenches to attack the bombed positions, which was also pure hasard (as the fact that the bombed hill was strategic in the defense of Deir Az Zor airport, a besieged isolated area in eastern Syria (where nobody from the mainstream media will be there to make a movie about those bombings) And you still want us to believe there was no coordination ?

I smell a large rat....