[CHUCKfromCAL]

He is smoking those funny cigarettes again

[Semper Paratus]

I'm sure he has his bags packed and bolthole selected just in case.

[ffusco]

How do you say "Bring it on!" in Yiddish?

[Delbert]

Perhaps he is feeling so cocky because he has some of Sadaams old toys?

[kinghorse]

War
Rumors of War

[TADSLOS]

Syria is capable of creating a power balance that would deter Israel and respond to its ``aggressive adventures,'' the armed forces chief of staff said Wednesday

Syria's A-Team

[bert]

"Proof of our capability" he said "was the decisive manner in which we permitted the Zionist devils to penetrate our airspace."

[tet68]

``Day after day the world is further convinced that Syria is about to be a greasy spot on the road map to peace.

[Fitzcarraldo]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/syria/navy.htm

Syrian Arab Navy In 1950 the Syrian Navy was established following the procurement of a few naval craft from France. The initial personnel consisted of army soldiers who had been sent tp French academies of naval training.

In 1985 the navy consisted of approximately 4,000 regular and 2,500 reserve officers and men. The navy, lacking parity with the other services, was under the army's Latakia regional command. The fleet was based in the ports of Latakia, Baniyas, Minat al Bayda, and Tartus. Among the 41 vessel fleet were 2 or 3 Soviet submarines (including 2 Romeo-type diesel-electric submarines, transferred by the Soviet Navy in 1985), 22 missile attack craft (including 10 advanced Osa II missile boats), 2 submarine chasers, 4 mine warfare vessels, 8 gunboats, 6 patrol craft, 4 missile corvettes (on order), 3 landing craft (on order), 1 torpedo recovery vessel and, as part of its coastal defense system, Sepal shore-to-sea missiles with a range of 300 kilometers.

[BIGZ]

The mouse that roared. Is this guy Syria Bob?

[rudypoot]

Their only tactic to deter Israel is to perform military exercises until the Israeli military is laughing so hard that they fall to the ground, grabbing their stomachs. This will render them incapacitated. Those arabs can be very sneaky.

[PLMerite]

Yeah, their plan is to overwhelm the Israelis with prisoners.

[Richard Axtell]

"Syria is capable of creating a balance that would deter Israel and put an end to its aggressive adventures"

... for at least 10 minutes, anyway. After that, I recommend that they run like hell.

[philetus]

The Serian people need to do something before this boob gets them all annihilated.

[yonif]

Syrian army chief says Damascus capable of deterring Israel

By The Associated Press

Damascus is capable of creating a power balance
that would deter Israel and respond to its
"aggressive adventures," the Syrian armed forces
chief of staff said Wednesday. He also accused the
United States of "unlimited" support of Israel.




General Hassan Turkmany was
speaking at a naval force
graduation ceremony. The
speech, his third in a week,
echoed similar charges made
by Syrian officials since
Israel attacked what it said
was a Palestinian base deep
in Syria on Oct. 5. "Day after day the world is further convinced
that Israel doesn't want peace. Syria is
capable of creating a balance that would deter
Israel and put an end to its aggressive
adventures," the official Syrian Arab News
Agency quoted Turkmany as saying.

"Syria has restrained itself and lodged a
complaint with the UN Security Council to give
way for international legality, but not this
was not out of inability to respond," he said.

The Israeli air attack on a camp Syria says was
long-abandoned came a day after a suicide
bombing by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
militant group killed 20 people in Haifa,
Israel.

"What encouraged Israel to be stubborn and
continue its aggressive course is the unlimited
financial, military and political support
offered by the U.S. President George Bush and
his administration's rightist staff," Turkmany
said.

Turkmany also reiterated his earlier urging for
the armed forces to be ready to confront any
new attacks by the Jewish state.

"You should have the highest level of discipline
and preserve the highest level of readiness to
carry out orders in order to increase the
fighting capability of the valiant armed
forces," SANA quoted him as saying.

[Nachum]

Syria had 45,000 Jews in 1948. They had prospered under the Turks and the French, but when the Arabs took over, they at once became the target for both official and unofficial violence. Anti-Jewish legislation froze bank accounts and confiscated property. New laws forbade Jews to sell their property or move more than three miles from their homes. Special identity cards were issued to them, and they were allowed to work only at certain jobs. Government employees and military personnel were forbidden to patronize Jewish shops. Today there are fewer than 4,000 Jews in Syria, and they are under constant attack. Syria 1948: 45,000 Jews, Syria 1973: 4,000 Jews.

R. Meir Kahane, OBM

[Alouette]

Yeah, right.

"Imagine this F-15 flying 50 meters above Assad's palace at 1 a.m. in the morning, with all of is thrusters directed exactly over the palace and no one even detected it until it was over the palace. This is embarrassing not to mention unpleasant," the senior officer said with a chuckle.

Knock, knock!

[Freemeorkillme]

Lebonese-liberation-not-far-away-BUMP!!

[CWOJackson]

They obviously don't teach Syrian/Israeli military history there.

[BlueNgold]

There are no Israeli's at the airport .. all operations continue as before .. we are in complete control ... the infidels are being driven back into the sea ...