From Ali, Angry Arab's chief correspondent in Turkey:
"Dear Assad,
I asked the opinions of a retired captain of Turkish
Armed Forces (Prefers not to be named) about the latest video claimed to be
showing the moment of hitting of Aleppo University and the speculations of the
opposition.
The video:
- To decide what hits the university without a
comprehensive investigation and expose the responsibles of the attack can be
illusory but "after watching just two videos" I may say that the sounds of the
"undefined object" (UO) is probably a surface-to-surface missile (STSM) Its
destructive capability and the roars are my evidences. The roars stopping at
moment of the blast show that the UO passes very close to the
cameraman.
- The second thing that supports my theory is that
neither people around the university, nor the cameraman do not pay attention to
the sky. If there was a raid then they would have been watching or glancing the
sky or probably cameraman would have tried to capture
it.
- We
cannot see an aircraft nor hear its sounds. If the UO was an air-to-surface
missile (ATSM) probably the
pilot would have maneuvered or drawn a circle/circles around the university so
we would have heard its sound but instead, we hear the sound of UO for a few
seconds before the university was hit.
- The claims of the opposition about eyewitness saw
aircraft “dropping” the bomb is pointless. UO is almost definitely a missile
whether its STSM or ATSM. So, they would have seen "firing” not "dropping". If
their claims were accurate (dropping bombs), then we would have precisely seen
or heard the aircraft. No aircraft in the world achieve to "drop bomb" on its
target without passing directly above it. I know the video was captured by a
mobile phone but it catched the sounds of UO, so probably it is able to record
the sound of an aircraft.
- STSM does not directly highlights a "terrorist
attack", Syrian army should conduct an investigation and share its conclusion
rapidly. They may publish the radar records. STSM and ATSM do not melts into air
after the blast. There should be solid fuel residuals and shrapnel. They also
publish the reports about the conflicts in Aleppo at that they (where are the
combat zones, rebels stronghold and the position of the army, its operations
etc) ( All armies record daily all the conflicts and manuveurs in a front). So
if their scenario has a consistency then we would be close to expose the
responsibles. (Also opposition should try to do it, they have ex-officers in
their ranks, also they may talk with the local people to write a consistent
story) But their first assumption is totally wrong for me, at least Syrian Army
has a consistent one for the first step.
- If this my observations are true, and if the FSA is
responsible, for me it indicates that the allies of the FSA gave them short
range STSM and the university was targeted intentionally because the possibility
of two missiles hitting same target accidentally is weak scenario... As because,
hand made missiles are not so sensitive in targeting, and it seems to me
difficult to determine whether its is hand made or not from the AFP photo. (This
photo:) "
