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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?
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:40:14 AM PST
by
pkok
To: pkok
bump..nothing yet at Debka, so I doubt this is true even though Debka is often out there.
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:42:40 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: pkok
President Bachar el Assad retreated secretly to the city of Aleppo Apparently not so secretly.
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:42:51 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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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.
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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 .)
To: pkok
Is this "out" yet?I'd like for it to be true. But the source hardly seems to be objective.
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:42:53 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Drooling moron since 1998...)
To: pkok
To: pkok; All
Wait and see if this is true or not..
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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!)
To: pkok
Is it true?
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:43:11 AM PST
by
wolfpat
(Dum vivimus, vivamus)
To: pkok
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:43:14 AM PST
by
beeler
(Shoot first, ask questions later.)
To: pkok
Let's hope they go at each other with zeal.
Maybe Hezbollah will join in the fray?
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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.)
To: pkok
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:44:46 AM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: RegulatorCountry
What happened to the story yesterday that US Marines had shot and killed an Iraqi general?
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:45:10 AM PST
by
ken5050
(The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
To: pkok
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?
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:45:40 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
Aleppo Isn't the dog food spelled "Alpo"?
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:46:10 AM PST
by
Drango
(All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
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...
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:46:25 AM PST
by
pkok
(GW - There's "there" there, thank God!)
To: DoctorMichael
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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)
To: pkok
Stratfor doesn't even see it yet so probably false alarm.
BUMP
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:47:03 AM PST
by
tm22721
To: Izzy Dunne
"city of Aleppo"
Sounds familiar. Crusades battle I think?
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posted on
03/16/2005 8:47:29 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Member, National Rightwing Blogger Mafia.)
To: tm22721; All
If it was happening, our forces in Iraq would probaly be in high alert..
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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!)
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...How will the unarmed populace defend themselves against what could be developing?
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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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