Peter Lemkin Wrote:911 changed everything - or gave it a good excuse, anyway. Now we have the USA bombing the hell out of ISIL [which they built up and trained before] in Syria! Ground troops can't be far behind. To me, control of the entire World or its resources is what the USA's geostrategic goals are. ILIS/IS response has been happy - now they will get many new recriuits and certainly will do many more kidnappings and beheadings. What ever happened to diplomacy and negotiation? - now everything is done down the barrel of a gun, drone, bomb or covert operation with special forces. Where the **** does the USA get the chutzpah to think they should run the World - we can't even run our own Country - except into the ground. What a mess - a new one of many. Obama surely NOT the Peace President - only a glib speaking frontman for the usual Secret Government. Our current allies in this new endeavor: apparently, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Israel, Egypt, Quatar, Turkey, UK, and maybe covertly Syria and Iran. Strange bedfellows. More death and mayham we constructed several years ago.

Quote:Israel says it has shot down Syrian jet

Military statement says the plane infiltrated Israeli airspace and was shot down using the Patriot air defence system

• Matthew Weaver
  
• The Guardian, Tuesday 23 September 2014 09.01 BST
  

An IDF spokesman said the aircraft a Russian-made Sukhoi was shot down by a US-manufactured Patriot missile. Photograph: Getty Images

Israel has announced that it shot down a Syrian aircraft that flew into Israeli-controlled airspace.
"Moments ago a Syrian aircraft infiltrated Israeli airspace. The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) intercepted the aircraft in mid-flight, using the Patriot air defence system. The circumstances of the incident are being reviewed," a military statement said.
An IDF spokesman said the aircraft a Russian-made Sukhoi was shot down by a US-manufactured Patriot missile.
Military sources told Reuters the plane had apparently crossed by accident into Israeli-controlled airspace over the Golan Heights where fighting from Syria's civil war has spilled over occasionally - and was not on a mission to attack Israeli targets.
Israel last month said it had shot down a Syrian drone over the Golan Heights. It last downed a manned Syrian jet in 1985 when Israel fighters over Lebanon destroyed two Syrian MiG-23s.