Are U.S. Supplied Missiles Killing Russian Military Officials In Syria?

Michael Weiss and Pierre Vaux, Daily Beast: Are U.S. Missiles Taking Out Russian Military Officials?

A CIA-backed anti-Assad militia reportedly killed at least one senior Russian military official this week with an American TOW anti-tank missile. Is this a Soviet-Afghan replay?

Evidence has emerged strongly suggesting that U.S.-armed rebels have used an American-supplied weapons system to kill a handful of senior Russian military officials in Syria.

Video footage, circulated by a known CIA-backed Free Syrian Army militia, shows a laser-guided BGM-71 TOWs anti-tank missile fired at a rooftop where unidentified uniformed personnel had gathered. The location of the building under attack is likely Latakia province, where the rebels have lately suffered setbacks as a result of intensified Russian airstrikes and artillery shelling aiding forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Everything is based on open-source intelligence and reporting from Syrian opposition, Turkish and Russian sources, all of which agree that at least one high-ranking Russian was killed in action in Syria. As of Thursday evening, U.S. officials would neither confirm nor deny to The Daily Beast whether an increase in resupplies to U.S.-backed rebel militias was in the offing as a result of the complete and utter breakdown of Syrian peace negotiations in Geneva.

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WNU Editor: According to Russian news/social media forums/etc. .... the answer is yes .... U.S. supplied weapons are targeting the Russian military in Syria starting with the shoot-down of a Russian fighter bomber by a U.S. supplied Turkish fighter jet firing a U.S. supplied missile last year.