NEWS FLASH
Syria Fires On Another Turkish Plane | Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said at a press conference Monday that Syria fired at a Turkish jet searching for the remains of another one of their plane shot down over Syria last week. He said the Syrian attack was called off after a warning from the Turkish military. Syria apologized for the first attack and said its gunners didn’t realize the plane was Turkish. Despite international condemnation and calls for an emergency NATO meeting, the downing of the first jet was unlikely to spark a Western military intervention there, according to an analysis by the AP. Syria nonetheless warned against such actions.
Update
A European diplomat told AFP that the second Turkish plane was not fired upon, but merely locked onto by Syrian air-to-ground defenses, something the plane’s instruments would have made clear to the pilots. (HT: Steve Hynd)
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