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2012-08-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian Rebels Claim Killing Russian General

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Posted by crosspatch 2012-08-08 01:45|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Targeted hit. The gloves, they may soon be coming off.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-08 02:41|| 2012-08-08 02:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Now whack a Chicom general, that's SHTF time.

Posted by Steven 2012-08-08 03:57|| 2012-08-08 03:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably drove down a road that was safe the day before.

Posted by phil_b 2012-08-08 03:58|| 2012-08-08 03:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Tomorrow's headline Russians deny wiping out a Syrian village.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-08-08 05:09|| 2012-08-08 05:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like the SAM delivery has arrived. Reports say a plane shot down in Allepo.

Posted by phil_b 2012-08-08 05:19|| 2012-08-08 05:19|| Front Page Top

#6 General Kojaiv, speaking from Moscow, denies the claim here.

Russian General Vladimir Petrovich Kojye denied reports he was killed by Syrian rebels on Wednesday. "I wish to confirm that I am live and well," he told reporters in Moscow. He did not mention when he last visited Damascus.

"My phone hasn't stop ringing all day," he told Russia's Interfax news agency.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-08-08 09:59|| 2012-08-08 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 TW, you've made my day.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-08-08 10:02|| 2012-08-08 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 "I got better!"

Posted by Frank G 2012-08-08 11:00|| 2012-08-08 11:00|| Front Page Top

#9 so if it wasn't Kojaiv .. who was it? they got somebody. maybe an intel attache??

Posted by Raider 2012-08-08 19:42|| 2012-08-08 19:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Probably the guy who stole his briefcase with his passport and papers in it.

Posted by crosspatch 2012-08-08 22:49|| 2012-08-08 22:49|| Front Page Top

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