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| "Syria placed its army on war preparedness, pointed Scuds at Israel from Thursday, July 20" Does this mean they were pointed at Tahiti prior to the 20th? |
Posted on 07/22/2006 6:10:16 AM PDT by Challenge
July 20, the day Tehran took control of Lebanon WarGAMLA: News and Views from Israel
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Syria placed its army on war preparedness, pointed Scuds at Israel from Thursday, July 20, the day Tehran took control of Lebanon War Our sources add Syrian fighter pilots are sitting in their cockpits. These orders went out from Syrian president Bashar Assad July 20 when Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig.-Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi assumed command of the Lebanon war from Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Tehran’s direct military intervention in the conflict was accompanied by an Iranian weapons airlift which began landing Wednesday, July 19, at the Abu Ad Duhur military airfield north of Homs. The deliveries include large quantities of new missiles, including the long-range Zelzal and Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles, Katyusha rockets, anti-tank and anti-air missiles sent out from RG HQ in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf. Assad acted on the assumption that Israel, whose air force and ground forces are already hammering the cross-border supply routes north of the Litani River to block the passage of Iranian hardware to Hizballah, will soon decide to go for Iranian military operations in Damascus and Abu Ad Duhur. Gen. Safavi has set up two forward command posts which coordinate war operations with Hizballah chief of staff Ibrahim Akil. One center is working out of a cellar of the Iranian embassy in Beirut to regulate Hizballah rocket fire against Israel and direct the groups of 3 or 4 RG officers taking part in every Hizballah face-to-face engagement with Israeli ground troops in the south. The second, housed in the basement of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, is in charge of communications, intelligence and getting hardware into Lebanon. The deliveries were made to the Abu Ad Duhur airfield because it belongs to the joint Iranian-Syrian Scud missile factory which employs a large number of Iranian engineers and technicians.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that some of the Iranian arms have Hizballah in Lebanon notwithstanding intense Israeli cutoff operations and their impact will probably be palpable in the coming days.
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Has the DEBKAfile ever been right in breaking news? If not, the Mods should just ban their junk news reports.
Is this from the same guy who said Karl Rove had been indicted?
Yes, and they better stay there if they want to live.
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| "Syria placed its army on war preparedness, pointed Scuds at Israel from Thursday, July 20" Does this mean they were pointed at Tahiti prior to the 20th? |
How many of these folks were only born as a result of Israel allowing their fathers to "surrender" instead of bein mopped up?
It's DEBKA. I'd wait to see independent verification before reacting to this. If, however, this is true, would not the United States have an obligation to offer assistance to our ally?
GAMLA has theirs. When they jive, we publish.
This report, we believe will be common knowledge in just a few days time.
Some people here laugh at DEBKA but I have often seen its reports backed up a couple of days later. Not all of them are accurate, and like any news source, it has to be read with caution. I think their error is that often the headlines or titles promise more than the article delivers. However, they do get your attention...
In my mind, Debka still has a very hard time living down the reports years ago of a million-strong Iraqi army invading Jordan, with massive air battles between the Iraqi AF on one side, and Israel, Jordan and USAF on the other, occuring in the skies above Jordan. The story even had Iraq winning the air battle.
Less speculation please, even when informed speculation. At least make it clear when a story cannot be backed up with verifiable sources.
" Our sources add Syrian fighter pilots are sitting in their cockpits."
Now if they only knew how to fly them. Amen. LOL
Our appeasement of Iran has been folly. Now we pay the price.
Debka may never be right, but the Israelis should take out these two targets in any case. MOAB bunker busters.
This has to peg the BS meter to extreme. And exactly how did the Iranians airlift the weapons? Did they fly through Turkey? Did they fly over Iraq with them? Did they fly them around the gulf over Saudi Arabia and Jordan? And did the sealift wave at the U.S. Navy as they passed the straights of Hormuz?
"DEBKA's sources" := "we made it up"
It's is like having something from the National Enquirer in Breaking News.
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