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Videooptagelser af mareridts-angrebet på den syriske nødhjælpskolonne i Aleppo er dukket op. Men der er noget pudsigt i hvordan disse optagelser er blevet vist i de vestlige presserapporter. En kommenter på bloggen Moon of Alabama, PavewayIV, gjorde følgende observationer om hvad der ses i videoen, og hvad det angiver. Men først så er der her den uredigerede version af anslaget, takket været ABC:



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In the screen cap above, you can see what looks to be a cloud of sparks following an initial explosion. According to PavewayIV, this is a signature of the Metal-Augmented Charge (MAC) Hellfire AGM-114N, the Predator drone's typical payload. The fiery cloud is produced by the residue of the fine-mesh fluorinated aluminum particles (the "metal augmentation"). Aside from the ABC footage, most other networks have shown edited versions that make this signature difficult to detect. For example, here's AP's version:


Shakey-cam added for jihadi-vision effect? Why would they do this?

Thermobaric Hellfire air-blasts don't leave craters, and they typically start fires. No craters are visible in footage of the burned convoy.

The Russians have thermobaric bombs, too, according to PavewayIV, but they use different particles and their blast patterns are different: either no "sparkles" or long-duration "sparkles", not the fast-duration flash as seen in the video of the Aleppo blast.

As we reported yesterday, the Russians detected a Predator drone which took off from Incirlik airbase in Syria, flew to the precise location of the convoy, arrived before the strike, stayed for a while, then left after the damage was done. Surely just a coincidence...