Turkish State TV: Turkey Forces Syrian Airplane to Land at Ankara Airport

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14. The FSA announced in September that it intends to shoot down civilian airliners over Syria

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/syrian-rebels-say-civilian-airliners-now-legitimate-targets-376164/

Syrian rebels say civilian airliners now 'legitimate targets'

By: Alex Thomas London
01:16 6 Sep 2012
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Civilian aircraft flying in or out of airports in the Syrian cities of Damascus or Aleppo risk being shot down from 10 September onwards, opposition group the Free Syrian Army has publicly declared.
"The airports of Damascus and Aleppo will be considered legitimate targets as of 10 September," says the group's political advisor, Bassam El-Dada.
Speaking on France 24's Arabic channel, he accused the Syrian regime of having "transformed these airports into platforms that serve to transport troops and refill arms and ammunition via Syrian, Iranian and Russian civilian airplanes."

With the importation of some of the 15,000 MANPADs looted from arsenals after US/NATO regime change operations in Libya, some of them reportedly through Turkey with Turkish cooperation (see, Times of London report), the Syrian opposition now have that capability. Looks like the Turks and the Syrian opposition are working together on a new front.

It's just a matter of time until these things get used to bring down a civilian airliner. If it isn't in Syria, it will be some other terrorist organization elsewhere using looted Libyan missiles and arms. Great policy regime change, no? It hops from one place to another, like grasshoppers. Wicked fun these Old Testament plagues.