Today the UK newspaper The Daily Mirror reports that "
CIA spies 'smuggle 14 Stinger missiles into Syria so rebels can take out regime warplanes'", using the following image to illustrate the article, with the caption "What a Stinger missile looks like"
What this picture actually shows is a
AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, an air to air missile (the clue being it's mounted on a aircraft), and not much use to a member of the Free Syrian Army, unless they've managed to get their hands on some jet fighters as well. A
Stinger missile looks like this
A slight difference in size.
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