© APWhat a Stinger missile looks like
The ground-to-air weapons have been delivered across the Turkish border to the Free Syrian Army and were partly paid for by Saudi Arabia, a security source claimed.
President Bashar al-Assad's MIG-23 warplanes and helicopter gunships have killed more than 1,000 people.
The source said: "The West and the rest of the Middle East is not going to be able to secure a no-fly zone above Syria any time soon so the only way to stop the carnage is to take on Assad's air force from the ground.
"Knowing that Stingers are in the hands of the opposition forces will hopefully mean Assad's air power will be much diminished but this will be a slow process."
Activists say more than 20,000 people have died in the 17 month civil war and the daily death toll has risen past 500 this week.
let's be clear here folks... the mirror ?journalists? need a retraining session on what is and what is not a stinger missile... now let's look at the pic above and it's caption "what a stinger missile looks like"... well, first of all, a stinger is a light weight, shoulder fired missile launched from a tube by a person standing on the ground... the photo above shows what could only be a f/a-18 hornet aircraft on a carrier with outer wings folded and sidewinder (aim-9) missiles installed on wingtip launch rails... both these missiles use heat detection as their primary tracking device, such as tracking the exhaust of a jet engine... just wanted to make it clearer to all my SOTT homies