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Syria coup d'etat last night?
Lebanese Foundation for Peace ^ | 3/16/05 | pkok

Posted on 03/16/2005 8:40:13 AM PST by pkok

Special Flash: Damascus, Syria

A Coup d' Etat took place in Damascus late last night. Intelligence reports coming from within the Syrian Military Command indicate the following:   A rebellion split The Syrian Army in two factions .   Since yesterday , Damascus is under the de facto control of the Syrian Army, under the command  of Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan, and supported by  Syrian Intelligence General Rustom Ghazaleh, Syrian military General Ali Madi, and Firas Tlass son of former Minister of Defence, Mustafa Tlass.  The group rebelled against the decision of President Bashar el Assad to withdraw from Lebanon and seized the Damascus military yesterday.   Around 3 am, Damascus time, the Syrian Air Force bombarded two military airfields around Damascus, the  Air force base of Dumair, and the Air force base of Katana. Also, late night around 3 am, the Syrian Air force bombarded military positions of the Syrian Army west of the city of Homs...

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Is this "out" yet?
1 posted on 03/16/2005 8:40:14 AM PST by pkok
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bump..nothing yet at Debka, so I doubt this is true even though Debka is often out there.


2 posted on 03/16/2005 8:42:40 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: pkok
President Bachar el Assad retreated secretly to the city of Aleppo

Apparently not so secretly.

3 posted on 03/16/2005 8:42:51 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: pkok

In all seriousness, I would expect Debka to be all over this if there was any hint of it being true. Will keep watching for more.


4 posted on 03/16/2005 8:42:53 AM PST by mitchbert (Paul Martin is a Spineless Ditherer. That's a Fact. And Facts Are Stubborn Things .)
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To: pkok
Is this "out" yet?

I'd like for it to be true. But the source hardly seems to be objective.

5 posted on 03/16/2005 8:42:53 AM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: pkok

PsyOps. Gotta love it.


6 posted on 03/16/2005 8:42:58 AM PST by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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Wait and see if this is true or not..


7 posted on 03/16/2005 8:43:08 AM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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Is it true?
8 posted on 03/16/2005 8:43:11 AM PST by wolfpat (Dum vivimus, vivamus)
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I don't buy it.


9 posted on 03/16/2005 8:43:14 AM PST by beeler (Shoot first, ask questions later.)
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To: pkok
Let's hope they go at each other with zeal.

Maybe Hezbollah will join in the fray?

10 posted on 03/16/2005 8:44:43 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: pkok

(?)


11 posted on 03/16/2005 8:44:46 AM PST by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

What happened to the story yesterday that US Marines had shot and killed an Iraqi general?


12 posted on 03/16/2005 8:45:10 AM PST by ken5050 (The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
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3 am, Damascus time, the Syrian Air Force bombarded two military airfields around Damascus

It's now 6:45 PM in Damascus. The Syrian AF attacked Damascus airfields 15+ hours ago and this is the first word?

13 posted on 03/16/2005 8:45:40 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Aleppo

Isn't the dog food spelled "Alpo"?

14 posted on 03/16/2005 8:46:10 AM PST by Drango (All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
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To: pkok

This is not another "Cedar Revolution." These are the hard core Syrian hardliners. God help the Syrian people in the chaos to follow...


15 posted on 03/16/2005 8:46:25 AM PST by pkok (GW - There's "there" there, thank God!)
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(?)

Yep

16 posted on 03/16/2005 8:46:32 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pkok
Stratfor doesn't even see it yet so probably false alarm.


BUMP

17 posted on 03/16/2005 8:47:03 AM PST by tm22721
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"city of Aleppo"

Sounds familiar. Crusades battle I think?


18 posted on 03/16/2005 8:47:29 AM PST by Rebelbase (Member, National Rightwing Blogger Mafia.)
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If it was happening, our forces in Iraq would probaly be in high alert..


19 posted on 03/16/2005 8:47:55 AM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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This is not another "Cedar Revolution." These are the hard core Syrian hardliners. God help the Syrian people in the chaos to follow...

How will the unarmed populace defend themselves against what could be developing?

20 posted on 03/16/2005 8:48:38 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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