The destroyer Donald Cook is equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles, the same used by the United States in the bombing of the Syrian air base in Shayrat, which took place last April 7.
These crates likely arrived onboard of one of the SyAAF's Il-76s that frequently visisted Deir ez-Zor when it was still possible for these aircraft to land at the airbase.
Both the United Nations and Russian Air Force have actively participated in dropping humanitarian aid to the starving population living in regime-held parts of the city, while Il-76s of the SyAAF are mostly active for the purpose of supplying weaponry, ammunition and fuel to the remaining regime forces held up in the city.
There is the bizarre fact that the alleged sarin gas bombing by the Syrian Air Force came just days after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the US President both indicated that forcing Assad out was no longer US priority, but an issue that ought to be decided by the Syrian people.
As we saw prior to the attack on Libya, which was also framed as a“humanitarian intervention,” NATO powers are keen to demonize Assad's government by characterizing attacks by his forces as atrocities while largely ignoring similar attacks by opposition forces, such as this week's raid on a Syrian air force intelligence complex that killed or wounded 20 security police.
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