POWER CAUGHT OUT
IN BIG LIE:
When the UN Inspectors' report on chemical weapons use in
the Syria conflict was released on Monday, Samantha Power,
the US representative at the United Nations, immediately accused
the Syrian Government of being the culprit. Ms Power made
the following assertions:
“the technical details of the UN report make clear that only the regime could have carried out this large-scale chemical weapons attack”.
She said that the
US had evidence that regime forces had fired the type of rockets that the UN
said were used in the August 21 attack. She added: “We have reviewed thousands of
open source videos related to the current conflict in Syria and have not
observed the opposition manufacturing or using this style of rocket.”
Well, she must have missed this one then:
This video uploaded on May 13, 2013, by the so-called "Free Syrian Army" (FSA), clearly shows the terrorists operating a BM-14 Soviet/Russian mobile rocket launcher of the type which uses the M-14 rockets which the UN Inspectors reported finding fragments of at the sites they investigated in Syria. This contradicts outright Ms Power's lying statement to the media on Monday that; “We have reviewed thousands of open source videos related to the current conflict in Syria and have not observed the opposition manufacturing or using this style of rocket.”
Should have gone to Specsavers then!
The BM-14 mobile rocket launcher was first introduced by the Soviet Union in 1952 and sold to most Middle East and north African countries since then. Countries which obtained the weapon
are: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, Libya, Madagascar, Mongolia, Sudan, Syria, Vietnam, Yemen.
16 tube BM-14 mobile rocket launcher, Soviet Union (1952-90), Russia(1990-)
The BM-14 ( Boyevaya Mashina, 'combat vehicle'), is a compact lightweight unit mounted on a two-wheel trailer which can be attached to an ordinary automobile for transporting and moved quickly after firing to a different location avoiding detection by radars or scopes in conflict situations. It can also be mounted on a small pick-up truck (as in the FSA video) with wheelbase detached.
The BM-14 can fire rockets fitted with chemical (MS-14), smoke (M-14D) or high-explosive fragmentation (M-14-OF) warheads. It is similar to the BM-13 "Katyusha" and was partly replaced in service by the 122 mm BM-21 Grad.
Should have gone to Specsavers then!
The BM-14 mobile rocket launcher was first introduced by the Soviet Union in 1952 and sold to most Middle East and north African countries since then. Countries which obtained the weapon
are: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, Libya, Madagascar, Mongolia, Sudan, Syria, Vietnam, Yemen.
The BM-14 ( Boyevaya Mashina, 'combat vehicle'), is a compact lightweight unit mounted on a two-wheel trailer which can be attached to an ordinary automobile for transporting and moved quickly after firing to a different location avoiding detection by radars or scopes in conflict situations. It can also be mounted on a small pick-up truck (as in the FSA video) with wheelbase detached.
The BM-14 can fire rockets fitted with chemical (MS-14), smoke (M-14D) or high-explosive fragmentation (M-14-OF) warheads. It is similar to the BM-13 "Katyusha" and was partly replaced in service by the 122 mm BM-21 Grad.
The rocket has a
range of about 9.8 km and can carry a warhead of 8 kg weight.
Launchers were built in 16 and 17-round variants. The weapon is not
accurate as there is no guidance system, but it is extremely effective in saturation
bombardment.
There is also a Chinese variant designated T-63.
The presence of this weapon in the ordnance of Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen, all of which countries have active al-Qaeda jihadists means it is easily accessible to the terrorists despite US false claims to the contrary.
