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25th November 2015, 04:52 AM
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Re: Turkey Downs Russian Warplane.
Pictures on TV news show one of the pilots in the hands of those who captured him. Turkey claim they gave ten warnings to the Russian aircraft about being over their air space. They claim they did this in just 17 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A right bunch of Turkeys if you ask me.


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25th November 2015, 07:58 AM
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Re: Turkey Downs Russian Warplane.
Russian pilots may have become careless and blase thinking it's shorter this way and nobody's going to do anything to us, not realising that the Turks think exactly the same way. Ignorance is not always bliss.
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25th November 2015, 08:04 AM
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Re: Turkey Downs Russian Warplane.
weather in Turkish air space or not there was no need to kill the two pilots as they came down they were out of the jet and floating down now I could be wrong and died as ejecting but dancing around the dead in celebration stinks to me. but Russia will not get mad they will get even it could be a cold winter in turkey this winter?? jp
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25th November 2015, 08:18 AM
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Re: Turkey Downs Russian Warplane.
as for the pilots being shot at john i would expect nothing less from these people ......even a beheading is possible with that lot down there.......but then nothing is new it happened in ww11...regards cappy
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25th November 2015, 08:20 AM
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Re: Turkey Downs Russian Warplane.
As an example of how the truth is manipulated, watched the advert for an upcoming TV show on the death of Kennedy. They still maintain it was carried out by the drop out who was shortly after killed by another. Anyone as a recent post on here that believes that, then must believe cows can fly. It was to me and is provable or nearly so if it wasn't for the supposedly misplacing of vital evidence, to have been most probably an unfortuanate accident and he was killed by a member of the secret service and his own bodyguard. It was a huge cover up the same as goes on all the time by mistakes made in the political arena. JS
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25th November 2015, 11:43 PM
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#15. The round that killed Kennedy mysteriously disappeared, also the one and only sniper rifle carried by a certain bodyguard, the bodyguard himself never took the stand as was said to be unavailable and was stationed to other duties. The two rounds that hit Kennedy the second shot was the killing one. The initial Autopsy report was also made to disappear. The Australian who wrote the book was an ex police sergeant in the Murder squad, and puts up an argument for an accidental killing and cover up by the FBI and Secret Service as very telling, which must also have had assistance from the top man of the time. The rifle carried by the bodyguard also disappeared. Cheers JS
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26th November 2015, 12:41 AM
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HI All.
One pilot shot floating down in his parachute, very brave lot of grubs on the ground, the other saved by Syrian special forces, rescue helicopter crashed then blown up by an American weapon supplied supplied to terrorists.
Turkey now in deep strife as their main source of income is Russia, 4.5 tourists a year now stopped 45billion in trade ? Europe has its hands full with terrorists everywhere coming through where? Turkey of course so wont be able to help them out financially, President Erdogan if that's his name wants to change Turkey to Sharia Law, he might not get the chance.
Cheers Des
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26th November 2015, 02:12 AM
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Latest in news today, the one who survived claims they were no where near Turkey, saying that they had flown the circuit si many time he knew all the hills. Turkey claims they did not know it was a Russian aircraft? Puitn is to give medals to all concerned including the dead pilot. Nice thought that


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26th November 2015, 03:15 AM
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Re: Turkey Downs Russian Warplane.
What a lot of crap. Of course they knew it was a Russian plane. It would of been transmitting identification codes automatically. The aircraft or ground crew that shot it down there own identification equipment would have said friend or foe. These people must think they are speaking to people of their own lower intelligence. See by the news that the Russians have gone into overtime mode on targeting the area which was to be expected. If the occupants didn't take the advice to scuttle back over the border into Turkey they have themselves to blame, they were warned. If nothing else the Russians will accomplish what they set out to do by whatever method it takes, as don't have the subtleties of the west, some call it lack of backbone that the west seems to have in bending over to anyone who says racist, and to the extreme lack of judgement when choosing their friends and backing them up with arms, the very worse thing that could happen. JS
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26th November 2015, 09:16 AM
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Re: Turkey Downs Russian Warplane.
The voice recording of the warnings given to the Russian aircraft have been released today, if genuine, they were warned several times, and told to head South immediately, kt
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