Posted on 08/01/2006 1:21:24 PM PDT by minus_273
CNN TV just had a reuters report that israeli troops have landed in the northern isareli city of balbeck.
IDF officialy has no comment.
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Do you think that Iran and Syria can hit American shores with bombs?
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mmmmmmm, that base is well covered. lol
Do you think that Iran and Syria can hit American shores with bombs?
It appears... cnn is playing to ratings game with scare tatics.
If this is true, and it is up in the air, and If the IDF follows through, with armor along the Anti Lebanon's while maintaining enough force to threaten Damascus, this will be a battle that will be studied for years, Brilliant.
Maybe they can................. but this is going to be like dominoes.
http://www.geocities.com/jirimruzek/baalbek.htm
One of life's mysteries, I guess.
And cigarettes!
Amen !
Welcome to that club. Those threads have turned out to be disgusting to the nth degree. It really makes one wonder about a whole LOT of people, on this site; doesn't it?
yes, sir/mame.
bttt
I suppose I was one of those because I was appalled at the abject apology Israel issued after the Quana incident. An apology like that usually indicates that a country has utterly lost its nerve and the hand wringers have taken over foreign policy. I am glad to see that it was an aberration. Perhaps Dr. Rice was also appalled and said so to let Israel understand that Bush was not about to dump righteous indignation all over them.
That's my thinking. If iran gets involved, they won't do it to hurt Israel, they want a whack at us, and hitting Israel is a sure fired way to pull us in. Bush has already said several times, we would not allow Israel to be wiped off the earth. I believe him.
Thanks!!!
Now were talking - hope they get pictures of the WMDs stashed there.
The FL is useless without the resolve of the other. What use is a finely honed sword, when the owner fears to draw? Where is Charles Martel?
Yet, not one household in ten is so prepared. Maybe not one in a hundred. This is a tougher problem.
I feel badly for the young folks everywhere..
On June 9th [2004], the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council about the export of Iraqi WMD, missile and nuclear components shipped out of Iraq before, during and after the invasion. As reported by MENL news service, UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the Council, "The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," and said inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags.
The World Tribune reported on Perricos's briefing. "He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month... The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters ... required for the production of chemical and biological warheads. 'It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for,' Perricos's spokesman, said. 'You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax.'"
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said vehicle traffic photographed by U.S. spy satellites indicated that material and documents related to the arms programs were shipped to Syria."
"Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.
Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."
In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.
"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.
Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.
In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.
"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said."
"The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org).
"We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."
"Two days before the war, on March 17th, we saw through multiple intelligence channels - both human intelligence and techinical (satellite,eavesdrop) intelligence - large caravans of people and things, including some of the top 55 Iraqis, going to Syria."
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