US surveillance planes fly over Syria....
To quote Princess Leia from Star Wars, "I have a bad feeling about this." A crash or a shoot-down and all hell breaks loose. NeoCons would have orgasms of delight if such a thing happened. Seems like I read somewhere once that Syria has sophisticated radar systems obtained from Russia, but I don't know if they could shoot down a plane.
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"While the White House says Obama has not approved military action inside Syria, additional intelligence on the militants would likely be necessary before he could take that step. Pentagon officials have been drafting potential options for the president, including air strikes.
One official said the administration has a need for reliable intelligence from Syria and called the surveillance flights an important avenue for obtaining data.
Two U.S. officials said Monday that Obama had approved the flights, while another U.S. official said early Tuesday that they had begun. The officials were not authorized to discuss the matter by name, and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The U.S. began launching strikes against the Islamic State inside Iraq earlier this month, with Obama citing the threat to American personnel in the country and a humanitarian crisis in the north as his rationale. Top Pentagon officials have said the only way the threat from the militants can be fully eliminated is to go after the group inside neighboring Syria as well."
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-obama-backs-surveillance-over-syria-042022085.html