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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army shoots down armed Israeli drone which killed 3 soldiers
2017-05-27
[ALMASDARNEWS] Around midnight, anti-aircraft units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shot down an armed Israeli drone which had conducted numerous sorties in Quneitra province, leading to the death of three SAA soldiers on Friday evening.
While staring at the pretty drone overhead, they accidentally fell into a drainage ditch and broke their silly necks.
The SAA troops were hit by the hostile drone while advancing behind enemy lines near the road between al-Hamdiyah and Abu Shabta, prompting the Syrian Air Defense Force to open fire and down the Israeli drone over rebel-held territory.
Oh -- not a ditch. They were shot by their own air defense, which almost entirely missed the drone. But if it weren't for the Israeli drone, the air defense guns would have stayed silent and the troops would still be alive. Thus it was that the Israeli drone killed them, you see?
Neither Tel Aviv or Damascus has responded to the mutual aggression yet. Nevertheless, the two countries remain at a state of war since the Israeli Armed Forces occupied much of the Golan Heights over five decades ago.
Israel never does, and if Damascus were to say anything they would find themselves in a war they alrady lost several times under considerably better conditions. At least they have the comfort of their manly mustaches. But wait -- there's more, per a last minute update from The Times of Israel at 12:10 a.m. EDT:
The Lebanese al-Miyadin network, which is affiliated with Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah, quoted on Saturday sources denying earlier reports of an Israeli Arclight airstrike on Syrian targets.

Syrian media had reported that three three soldiers loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
had been killed overnight Friday-Saturday in a strike by an unmanned Israeli aircraft.

Al-Miyadin, however, claimed that the soldiers were killed in battles with rebels near the town of al-Hamidiya, not by the Israeli military.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Kamikaze drone
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-05-27 11:31  

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