This is not just humiliating for the Anglo-Saxon illegal invaders but downright careless. First their missiles land in Iran, then Turkey, and later they end up blowing up a UK fighter plane. Now this tragedy…
Shameless.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1084869,00.html
**STRAY MISSILE HITS BUS **
An air-to-surface missile fired by a US warplane has hit a bus in Iraq, killing five Syrians who were returning home, according to the Sana news agency. At least 10 others on the bus were said to have been wounded. The incident reportedly occurred on Sunday night near al-Rutbeh, around 100 miles from the Syrian border. “A US warplane fired a missile at 10pm local time yesterday (Sunday) on a civilian bus carrying Syrian nationals in al-Rutbeh…killing five and wounding at least 10,” the agency said. A Syrian official confirmed the incident.
Staunch opponent
The agency said that 37 people were travelling on the bus when it was hit. A US Central Command spokeswoman had no information on the report that a missile had hit a bus. The Syrian agency said the wounded were taken to a Syrian hospital on the Syrian-Iraqi border, while the dead were sent to a hospital on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. Syria, the only Arab member of the United Nations Security Council, has been a staunch opponent of the US-led war on fellow Arab nation, Iraq. The bus deaths came as two Tomahawk cruise missiles misfired and landed in an unpopulated area of Turkey on Sunday.
Malfunction
A US defence official admitted the mistake but said there were no reported injuries. Another US defence official said the incident was not surprising, given that thousands of Tomahawks had been launched in the past days. “Out of the thousands of Tomahawks that have been launched, you’re bound to have a few that malfunction,” the official said. The Tomahawk is a stubby-winged, precision-guided, long-range cruise missile that can be fired from a submarine, destroyer or cruiser. News of the misfires came via a local governor in Turkey, who said a suspected missile fell near a village in eastern Turkey not far from the Iraqi border. The governor said it left a large hole in agricultural fields but did not cause any injuries.
