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Three More Syrian Warplanes Defect to Jordan As Assad Shows Signs of Mental Strain
Posted by By al-Jis Tehr at 9 September, at 03:14 AMPrint
Three Syrian MiG 21 fighter jets landed in Jordan on Friday in what opposition activists said was at least the second defection involving an aircraft since the start of a 15-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The pilots landed the planes at King Hussein Airbase, a Jordanian security source told Reuters, referring to a military airport 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of the capital Amman.
Syrian state television said communication was lost with three planes of the same model at 10:34 a.m. while it was on a training mission near the southern border with Jordan.
This new development comes after three rockets fired from Syria hit an Iraqi border town on Saturday, killing a 5-year-old girl, locals and officials said, in the most serious spillover from the neighboring country's civil war.
As rebels fought government forces for an airfield and military base near the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal, Katyusha rockets hit a residential area of al Qaim in Iraq, smashing through a wall of one house and killing a girl inside.
"She was sitting on my lap just before we heard the rocket. I knew she was dead immediately after the explosion," said Firas Attallah, the girl's father, showing a bloodstained mattress amid the shattered glass in his home.
Baghdad said a total of four rockets were fired in what it called a "criminal operation".
"Despite the fact that Iraq is committed to adopting a neutral stance towards the crisis in Syria, our brave forces are ready to confront and respond in case of repetition of such aggression," the interior ministry said in a statement.
Reports emerging from inside Assad's regime suggest the leader is starting to display signs of mental instability. One source claimed the troubled Syrian leader has even contemplated exiling himself to Ecuador, stating the famed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange really gives him 'a twitcher'.
Three More Syrian Warplanes Defect to Jordan As Assad Shows Signs of Mental Strain
Posted by By al-Jis Tehr at 9 September, at 03:14 AMPrint
Three Syrian MiG 21 fighter jets landed in Jordan on Friday in what opposition activists said was at least the second defection involving an aircraft since the start of a 15-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The pilots landed the planes at King Hussein Airbase, a Jordanian security source told Reuters, referring to a military airport 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of the capital Amman.
Syrian state television said communication was lost with three planes of the same model at 10:34 a.m. while it was on a training mission near the southern border with Jordan.
This new development comes after three rockets fired from Syria hit an Iraqi border town on Saturday, killing a 5-year-old girl, locals and officials said, in the most serious spillover from the neighboring country's civil war.
As rebels fought government forces for an airfield and military base near the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal, Katyusha rockets hit a residential area of al Qaim in Iraq, smashing through a wall of one house and killing a girl inside.
"She was sitting on my lap just before we heard the rocket. I knew she was dead immediately after the explosion," said Firas Attallah, the girl's father, showing a bloodstained mattress amid the shattered glass in his home.
Baghdad said a total of four rockets were fired in what it called a "criminal operation".
"Despite the fact that Iraq is committed to adopting a neutral stance towards the crisis in Syria, our brave forces are ready to confront and respond in case of repetition of such aggression," the interior ministry said in a statement.
Reports emerging from inside Assad's regime suggest the leader is starting to display signs of mental instability. One source claimed the troubled Syrian leader has even contemplated exiling himself to Ecuador, stating the famed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange really gives him 'a twitcher'.
