red fang (unregistered) wrote in #20
@kozamek , noup, it is a MiG-21. Sukhoi 7 dont exist anymore, very ancient than this new nest of paultry in jordan. .......lets face it guys,,,Bashar Al Assad is doomed! not even his own colonnel wants anything to do with him, thats why he defected. Russians please leave syria now, take ur buddy Al Assad with you! Kozamek is entirlely correct. The image used here is an Su-7 two-seat trainer known by the codename Moujik. The single seat is known as Fitter. The various early Sukhoi and MiGs jets are constantly being mixed up.

This guy did the right thing. He saw what was going on and decided what was wrong and what was right. So many people get caught up in the rat race they they overlook the fact. This guy and any other Syrian defectors are always welcome to sit at my dinner table.

is it just me or should the plane be in a museum. 

i love the smell on sunday morning when my wife cooks it for breakfast
obvious ly it gives the raconteurs on this website indigestion
keep cooking boys

The puppet jordanians had better return the syria pilot and his aircraft back to syria. The jordanians are aiding and abetting criminals and they had better do what is right or risk an arab spring in their country against the corrupt king.

How no one realize the irony of this news.. this pilot escaped to a country with ZERO reforms , ZERO democracry , ZERO freedom. Just a dictator family ruling for decades. just like is Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.. which are supported by the west.  This people leave because they are bribed with long sums of money enough for them living rest of their lives without working.. Last i heard ,They are bribed with many hundred thousands US dollars a house and a job too offered. So 1 pilot in 16months of uprising and a few dozens in the army shows clearly Assad essentially  the totality of support of the  of his armed Forces and of his Government and vast majority of civilians too. Life in majority of Syrian cities is business as usual and protest are rare in the country. THe revolution have failed not because of lack of international support from US and NATO but for the lack of internal support. Even majority of sunnies welcome the government new democratic reforms and reject the violence of the Rebels extremist who take arms to attack the country.

Mark (unregistered) wrote in #2
Asylum for the collonel, but no asylum for Assange.
Think about it..
-------- --------Well, if the US can extract Noriega out of Panama and send him to prison in Miami; it can't be that much more to extract Assange out of Equador and send him to prison in Cuba.

The rats are starting to leave the sinking ship. More top Senior military figures to follow.

Will people please stop dishing out blame on either party? War is the most horrific invention of humanity and a calamity to all who experience it. As far as I am concerned neither the Syrian Army nor the Free Syrian Army deserve to be given any kind of support. Nobody is justified when it comes to fighting because it proves that mankind has lost its ability to reason. I am sick and tired of reading in both Western and Eastern coverage how one side is heroic and the other demonic. Get a grip on reality! They will kill each other until the cow comes home and when America supplies the rebels (which has been proven by both western and eastern news sources alike and was obvious from the beginning) they do nothing to prevent the suffering of the Syrian people; and if - I say if - Russia is suppling Assad, then they are doing nothing to end the conflict either. By supporting one side over another you are effectively saying that one group deserves to live and the other deserves to die, and that is out right barbaric. The only time that military force is justified is when one country invades another country; even then war is completely barbaric and anyone who engages in it should be prepared to be haunted by its traumatic effects the rest of their life.

Wildey (unregistered) wrote in #6
I read a lot of different scenarios that might have happened. Possibly somebody was looking for a guy that was for sale to the highest bidder. In other words, he was paid to defect. Now who could be that benefited by his actions? What he did was great for the US's propaganda machine. Is he Syrian? Many questions but very few answers. By your own logic everybody in Assad's army who didn't defect was paid not to. Are those people Syrians? Who could have benefitted from their actions? Many questions, very few answers.

@wildely, yup, syrian colonel! He cnt be a colonel in syria if he wasnt syrian. and take usa out of this ok, usa isnt responsible for everything in this world, that dude just want nothing to do with Assad.!.

@wildely, yup, syrian colonel! He cnt be a colonel in syria if he wasnt syrian. and take usa out of this ok, usa isnt responsible for everything in this world, that dude just want nothing to do with Assad.!.

I read a lot of different scenarios that might have happened. Possibly somebody was looking for a guy that was for sale to the highest bidder. In other words, he was paid to defect. Now who could be that benefited by his actions? What he did was great for the US's propaganda machine. Is he Syrian? Many questions but very few answers.

russia is riding a sinking ship! :-) , well done CIA.

Jordan is another country where it's money is backed by the dollar. Needless to say Jordan sits on a hotbed all sides. King Abdullah is not in a position to voice his own opinion to the world. He must follow the country that offers the best security to his country and people. His father, King Hussein, went to president Bush Sr. and tried to prevent the first Iraq'i war and was told to mind his own business. That's the sentiment Abdullah inherited. Literally, do as your told. Jordan has no oil so it is reliant to other countries supplying it's oil. If you and I had a discussion but I had a gun pointed at your head, do you think the discussion would go my way? Many of the Mid East countries are in that postion. We only hear the results of what others plan. Franklin Delano Roosevelt said..." When you see things happening in politics, you can bet they just don't happen, they're planned that way".  

This person did not WORK in the syrian army but SERVED there. When you serve you carry out an order no matter unless the outcome is disturbing ... that is what distinguishes between a human and a tool... What this guy did is commendable because he felt like it was beyond his control and he didn't fake being sick. To me he wants to be a great human being. What I have noticed with most tools is they go by the saying ''to hell with thinking''. This makes me sick!

@auto (unregistered)- I think it is a Syrian pilot disguising as a CIA Pilot disguising as a Syrian pilot to make the CIA look bad!