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U.S.: Russia Sending Attack Helicopters to Syria

HeadlineJun 13, 2012

More reports are emerging that both the Syrian military and opposition rebels are receiving heavy arms from outside the country. On Tuesday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Russia of sending helicopters to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Hillary Clinton: “We have confronted the Russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to Syria. They have, from time to time, said that we shouldn’t worry, everything they’re shipping is unrelated to their actions internally. That’s patently untrue. And we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically.”

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