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To: APRPEH

"state-of-the-art Russian anti-tank rockets."

That's all the farther anyone needs to read; that says it all, doesn't it?

Just for the record, (and the kl00-less), "Katushka" is NOT an Arabic diminutive name, it's Russian. There are so many copies and variants on the original Russian design the term is used to cover a wide range of Russian designed and built artillery rockets.

The bottom line here is that these weapons are being provided to the terrorists by the Russians, via the Syrians. The Soviet Union is long gone, but it was, at it's heart all along, Russian; and the Russians are whores for anyone's hard cash. They long supported the Stalinists/Baathists in the Middle East, and nothing has changed in that.

So all of that just begs the question: Just what the hell are we waiting for?? Must we wait until Hezbollah gets it's hands on a nuke, or enough chemical weapons to wipe out Tel Aviv, and actually uses either one, before we stop dicking around in the UN, and do what has to be done? And by that I mean unilaterally disarming the Syrians by wiping out every military target in their country.


61 posted on 08/11/2006 6:57:13 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout hearts!!)
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To: Bean Counter
Just for the record, (and the kl00-less), "Katushka" is NOT an Arabic diminutive name, it's Russian. There are so many copies and variants on the original Russian design the term is used to cover a wide range of Russian designed and built artillery rockets.

That's not correct. The Katyusha rocket was first used by the Soviets in WWII as an answer to German artillery. However, since that time over 20 countries have produced the rockets and even more keep them in their inventory. The US has a version. The Katyusha rockets being used against Isreal are Syrian, and the longer range Fajr-3 and Fajr-5 are Iranian. None of these are Russian.
76 posted on 08/11/2006 7:37:46 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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