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January 4th, 2013
03:11 AM ET
U.S. troops arrive in Turkey; rebels battle for airport in Syria
By Ben Brumfield
U.S. troops arrived in Turkey on Friday to man Patriot missile defense batteries near the Syrian border, according to Turkish state media.
Syria has previously launched Scud missiles at cities near the Turkish border in a desperate bid to extend its firepower.
In response, the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands deployed Patriot air defense missiles to the border region to intercept any Syrian ballistic missiles.
The missiles and troops will be under the overall control of NATO, but the missiles will be operated by U.S. forces.
A group of 27 U.S. troops landed in Gaziantep, Turkey, where they will survey the Patriot deployment, according to Turkish state news agency, Anadolu.
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The rebels are nothing more than imported extremists lets call a spade a spade
I wonder when a division of US soldiers will arrive in Indian Occupied Kashmir to control the genocide going on there. Now that we are freed up in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The rest of the world needs to realize that the American people don't hate muslims or the islamic culture or anything like that. Personally i find it extremely interesting and i communicate with many cool people from the middle east on social networking sites all the time. We the people aren't the ones destroying your countries, it's our government which is just as corrupt if not MORE corrupt than the 'regimes' we take down.
Gearing up for Iran.
Here is another exercise in complete stupidity. We need to persuade the Turks into granting the Kurds the independence they deserve but won't! Instead, we're dragging them further into Syria's civil war where the West hopes to depose Bashar al-Assad so it can take that country over. Besides, isn't it stupid to send troops overseas when our budget is way out of balance? I think so!
We already have troops overseas, all over Europe, Middle East, and Asia that are constantly moving. I doubt 27 soldiers reallocated to Turkey will break an already broken budget.
This is worth every penny as well, it also let Assad know how very close he is to destruction, but in the end it might end up being another country without true human right even if he is taken down.
I wish that the stupid Tea Partier who usurped my name above would at least spell it right! But on the other hand, by misspelling my name, he's further displaying his stupidity!
Yahoo more American troops and more tax dollars we don't have being wasted protecting people that hate us.
But I don't. Only extremist islamists hate USA. In fact I'm a big fan of the marine corps. I've been visiting the Marine corps embassy guards since i was 13 in every 10th december 🙂
Gee Emre, will you drop the Tea Party nonsense? Of course most Muslims hate us and no one can blame them either. Just look at what we're doing to their countries over there!