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June 13, 2012

U.S.: Russia Sending Attack Helicopters to Syria 
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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 are 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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