Posted on 11/05/2009 2:13:02 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
The Story of 'Operation Orchard'
How Israel Destroyed Syria's Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor
By Erich Follath and Holger Stark
In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert. The incident could have led to war, but it was hushed up by all sides. Was it a nuclear plant and who gave the orders for the strike?
The mighty Euphrates river is the subject of the prophecies in the Bible's Book of Revelation, where it is written that the river will be the scene of the battle of Armageddon: "The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East."
Today, time seems to stand still along the river. The turquoise waters of the Euphrates flow slowly through the northern Syrian provincial city Deir el-Zor, whose name translates as "monastery in the forest." Farmers till the fields, and vendors sell camel's hair blankets, cardamom and coriander in the city's bazaars. Occasionally archaeologists visit the region to excavate the remains of ancient cities in the surrounding area, a place where many peoples have left their mark -- the Parthians and the Sassanids, the Romans and the Jews, the Ottomans and the French, who were assigned the mandate for Syria by the League of Nations and who only withdrew their troops in 1946. Deir el-Zor is the last outpost before the vast, empty desert, a lifeless place of jagged mountains and inaccessible valleys that begins not far from the town center.
But on a night two years ago, something dramatic happened in this sleepy place. It's an event that local residents discuss in whispers in teahouses along the river, when the water pipes glow and they are confident that no
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Nahh. The battle is at Megiddo in Israel.
This verse only talks about how an obstacle to the passage of one of the armies is handled.
A long read, but detailed and interesting.
Boy, is it ever a long, overly wordy read. I wonder how the author would rewrite “close cover before striking”.
In the original German, the entire article was handled with three words.
“In the original German, the entire article was handled with three words.”
Yes, but the original German article was 16 pages longer.
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Meins du das, oder sagst du das nur?
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