Segue abaixo, retirado aqui, extrato de coletiva de imprensa com Jennifer Psaki, porta-voz do Departamento de Estado dos Estados Unidos. Como foi noticiado, as forças sírias teriam abatido nos últimos dias um drone estadunidense em Latakia, no noroeste do país. Tal gesto desagradou aos ianques, que, do alto de sua prepotência belicista, advertiram o regime de Assad.
Entendemos que o fato de não possuir controle sobre parcelas de seu território, perdidas para a organização criminosa ISIS e outros grupos "rebeldes", e de tolerar o suporte aéreo que os curdos têm recebido da coalizão internacional liderada pelos EUA contra o mesmo ISIS, não retira da Síria o status de país autônomo e soberano. Assim, possui um governo formal, o de Assad, cuja autoridade deve ser respeitada. Dizer isso não significa que nos iludimos com o caráter do regime de Assad, mas é preciso ombrear com o mesmo contra a tríade interessada em sua queda: imperialismo- sionismo- wahhabismo. Tais forças reacionárias querem devastar o país, como fizeram na Líbia e no Iraque, portanto o momento pede frente única para resistência em torno do governo sírio.
US STATE DEPARTMENT DAILY ‘PRESS’ BRIEFING
(18/3/2015)
QUESTION: So members of the Syrian military are claiming they shot down a U.S. drone over Latakia. Is there any official clarification from the Syrian Government about that? Are they really claiming they shot this down? The Pentagon hasn’t been able to confirm that it was, in fact, shot down. Do you have anything on that?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I can confirm, as I’m sure you may have from the Pentagon, and certainly they’d be the lead on this, that yesterday U.S. military controllers lost contact with an unarmed remotely-piloted aircraft operating over northwest Syria. The Department of Defense is looking into the incident, will provide more details when available. Obviously, I don’t have more in terms of the Syrian Government’s comments or public comments or what they may mean.
QUESTION: Right. Because people see it as a little odd, because Syria – the Syrian military has taken sort of a passive approach to U.S. air presence in the region. So it would come as a surprise to you, would it not, if they had in fact shot this out of the sky?
MS. PSAKI: Well, we don’t have any confirmation at this point. As you know, the Department of Defense would be the ones who would issue that. Of course, we’ll continue to look into the incident and the circumstances surrounding it, and we, of course, reiterate our warning to the Assad regime not to interfere with U.S. aerial assets over Syria.
