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[Celerity]

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[JI7]

1. If it's true I guess Putin see's him being there

as being an obstacle to whatever else he wants to do. Especially his relationship with the Sunni muslims.

[malaise]

5. Putin or Bibi? n/t

[Renew Deal]

2. Here's some info but they should have found a crash site by now

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219800147

[speak easy]

3. "Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733

[claudette]

4. Or is it

something they want people to believe?

[fierywoman]

6. Wasn't Assad reported to have flown to Moscow days ago?

[zuul]

7. Yes, but Pootie said he could no longer help him

so Assad briefly returned to Syria before fleeing the country again.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Reuters has deleted the stuff about a possible crash

Article now just reads:

Assad, who had not spoken in public since the sudden rebel advance a week ago, flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination earlier on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters.

His whereabouts now - and those of his wife Asma and their two children - were unknown. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Assad had left office and departed the country after giving orders there be a peaceful handover of power.

The BBC notes (while there's no evidence Assad was on board this plane - there's also an Airbus that flew to Sharjah that's a possibility):

After flying over the central city of Homs - which fell to the rebels on Saturday night - at an altitude of 20,000ft (6,095m) the plane made a U-turn and started flying eastwards again while also losing altitude.

The plane's transponder signal was lost at around 04:39 (02:39 GMT), when it was about 13km (8 miles) west of Homs and flying at an altitude 1,625ft (495m).

Flightradar24 said in a post on X that the aircraft "was old with an older transponder generation, so some data might be bad or missing", that it was "flying in an area of GPS jamming, so some data might be bad", and that there was not aware of any airports in the area where the signal was lost.

There have not been any reports of a plane crash in the same area.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx89reeevgo

That area is very close to Homs, which HTS has taken. They almost certainly would have found a crash there by now. Others have pointed out the transponder might have just been switched off to prevent tracking.

[Celerity]

9. thanks, I will take it down