Israel strikes Syria, says targeting Hezbollah arms (latest report at the moment) - Video

Reuters ^ | Sun May 5, 2013 2:28pm EDT | By Dominic Evans and Oliver Holmes

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

(Reuters) - Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.

As Syria's two-year-old civil war veered into the potentially atomic arena of Iran's confrontation with Israel and the West over its nuclear program, people were woken in the Syrian capital by explosions that shook the ground like an earthquake and sent pillars of flame high into the night sky.

 

"Night turned into day," one man told Reuters from his home at Hameh, near one of the targets, the Jamraya military base.

But for all the angry rhetoric in response from Tehran and from the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it was unclear whether the second such raid in 48 hours would elicit any greater reaction than an Israeli attack in the same area in January, which was followed by little evident change.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[no-to-illegals]

Notice the Twin Towers in several of the shots of this video ... and God sends in his Wild Angels ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaXznfBPbyM

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Guess it is a slide show...better video :

Al jeezra report

[bert]

-——Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah-——

I have thought about this most of the day and concluded:

Hezbollah bound missiles = Bengazi video Islamic slur

[harwood]

I don’t buy it; I think a chemical weapons dump was hit

[taildragger]

I don’t buy it; I think a chemical weapons dump was hit

Do you mean the WMD's that didn't exist that Sadam gave the Syrian's i.e. the clown gas, not the really nasty stuff the Spetnaz' took back to Russia? Nah move along here....

[harwood]

Lots of chatter on the jihadi sites about foul odors and and such for miles around

[Robe]

In the case of biological/chemical agents, you can't just destroy them with high explosives. That just spreads them around.
You need something like an FAE (fuel air explosive)which basically incinerates the stuff.
From the vids, that big blast sure looks like a FAE to me.
But then it could be a secondary.

[Marine_Uncle]

Russian arms manufactures are making out well these days.

[no-to-illegals]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1Tis4_Ql0

[rdcbn]

I don’t buy it; I think a chemical weapons dump was hit

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No doubt the some of the missiles were configured for chem/bio warheads

[Venturer]

One day soon the Israeli’s will have to stop Iran from sending weapons and missiles to Syria and other countries by taking out Iran.

May they hit Ahmadinnerjacket first and his head Imam second.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Lenghty and excellent.