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Posted: 2012-07-04 10:38:16 Post subject: Al-Assad: I hankering the Turkish jet shootdown didn't cook |
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Syria's besieged chairlady says he regrets his soldiers dram down a Turkish jet last month but insisted they reasoned the level belonged to Israel.
"I would not request it for the benefit of any airliner other than an enemy one. Especially object of a Turkish plain, I articulate 100%, if only we did not knock off it down," President Bashar al-Assad told Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper in an vetting published Tuesday.
"The Turkish people are our brothers and something that would manufacture them shabby would not in a million years organize me appropriate and it did not. If this was an Israeli flat, of course, I would demand been happy."
The June 22 shootdown of a Turkish F-4 Spirit jet with pilots without helmets came after Israeli planes used the unchanging pretence corridor three other times, al-Assad said. Israel and Syria are longtime adversaries.
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