Would they shoot down a Russian plane firing on Georgian territory?
General Rikhye, a man not easily rattled, was shocked to find his UN plane fired on, and almost forced down, by Israeli jets in 1967.
But a Japanese cruiser and a fighter plane fired on his twin-engine bomber, damaging its rudder and knocking out the left engine.
Within minutes of the helicopter's departure, Mr. Muhammad said, a large plane fired what he believed were rockets into the compound.
Thursday evening, as Gazans began to break their Ramadan fasts, an Israeli plane fired a missile at a motorbike in northern Gaza, killing two Palestinian militants, witnesses and medical sources said.
But in dozens of interviews this weekend, residents in this town about 100 miles north of Kandahar in central Afghanistan said the two-hour raid before dawn, which ended with an American plane firing at the compound, was an error.
On each pass, five times approximately every 15 minutes, the plane fired and hit the main hospital building "repeatedly and precisely", MSF stated, indicating that the facility was targeted on purpose.
The photo released on Friday by Russia's Channel One and Rossiya TV stations purportedly shows a Ukrainian fighter plane firing an air-to-air missile in the direction of flight MH17.
The left-hand panel shows a fighter plane firing a rocket that, in the right-hand panel, hits a second plane which explodes in flames.
