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Syrian President Being Pressured To Respond With Force
Jerusalem Post ^

Posted on 09/12/2007 5:49:24 AM PDT by maquiladora

Advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad are pressuring him to respond to the alleged IAF attack by "landing a blow to an Israeli target," the Kuwait-based Al-Jareeda reported Wednesday. According to the report, Israel targeted long-range missile batteries that were brought to Syria from Iran. The report said five IAF fighter jets carried out the attack.

Israel Radio quoted the Kuwaiti paper to the effect that the group advocating a military response is being spearheaded by Assad's brother in law, who has met in recent days with senior Hizbullah and Hamas officials in an effort to draw up an operation plan.

The Kuwaiti paper also reported that the Syrian army has begun drafting reservists from the armed corps, missile corps and anti-aircraft units, and quoted "sources in the know" who said the draft was a response to Israel raising its level of readiness in the north.

According to a report by The Nazareth-based al-Sinara newspaper Wednesday, the IAF targeted a joint Syrian-Iranian missile base in northern Syria. Reportedly, the Iranian-funded installation was razed to the ground.

The report claimed its information was gleaned from an "Israeli source."

An official in the Bush administration told the New York Times Wednesday that in recent days the IAF has flown over Syria several times in an attempt to gain intelligence on a number of suspected nuclear facilities Israel believes have been sponsored by North Korea.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; rumpstate; syria; waronterror
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To: maquiladora

The only difference between the Syrian government and the hizbullah and hamas terrorists is the Syrians wear business suits.


21 posted on 09/12/2007 7:46:30 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: maquiladora
The Israeli military failed to disable the non-state entity of Hezbollah during last summer's war. They have regrouped and still have thousands of rockets ready to fire against Israel again, and let's not forget, the kidnapped Israeli solider which started all that is still missing.

Just so that none of us forget, there are three Israeli soldiers still missing from last summer's war not one. There are at present eight Israeli soldiers kidnapped or missing in action.

Israeli MIAs.
22 posted on 09/12/2007 7:53:15 AM PDT by dmartin (Who Dares Wins)
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To: maquiladora; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; null and void; Larry Lucido; Eric Blair 2084
I hate to wish it... but I'd love to see Bashar Assad unleash his kittens of war.

And chuckle... as Israeli planes and troops eat his lunch from elbow to earlobe.

Bender, like you, I hate being a warmonger... but I just love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Yeah, Colonel, it smells... like my second ex-wife cooking breakfast.

23 posted on 09/12/2007 7:54:22 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2
"Major General Zapp Brannigan reporting for duty (in about 20 minutes)."


24 posted on 09/12/2007 8:03:01 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; null and void; Eric Blair 2084
Larry, this obsession... you seem to have for Zap Brannigan has me wondering?

Yeah, Leela... should they get a room?

I think a room would be best... If they take their 'thing' to the next level in public here on FR, we'd all get banned!

Or... go blind!

25 posted on 09/12/2007 8:13:54 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Mr.Smorch
I don’t think Syria is comparable with the former Yugoslavia. There are similarities, but the divide in Yugoslavia goes back to when the Eastern and Western Roman Empires divided, and Serbia became Orthodox and Croatia and Slovenia Catholic. Syrians are Muslims and while there are ethnic as sectarian differences, the Assads are smaller versions of Saddam and it would take the demise of Assad to cause Syria to go the fate of Iraq.
26 posted on 09/12/2007 5:19:08 PM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: ClaireSolt

Good point losers do like to whine, just like Democrats.


27 posted on 09/12/2007 5:19:54 PM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: maquiladora

Syrian should wait for a like minded democrat to be president of the United States before they go attacking Israel.


28 posted on 09/12/2007 5:33:14 PM PDT by Keflavik76
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
According to the report, Israel targeted long-range missile batteries that were brought to Syria from Iran. The report said five IAF fighter jets carried out the attack. Israel Radio quoted the Kuwaiti paper to the effect that the group advocating a military response is being spearheaded by Assad's brother in law...
...a.k.a. his eventual successor.
29 posted on 09/14/2007 12:12:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 12, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: maquiladora

Interesting that none of the Arab states condemned Israel.

They must be sicker of Iran’s “mini me” than we are.


30 posted on 09/14/2007 12:15:22 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Hillary 2008, the willing suspension of disbelief, or I can't remember for those of you in Rio Linda)
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia
Does Syria really want to get its ass kicked again?

Of course it does. Remember when we toppled Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad immediately said that he was the new Arab leader? He might as well have held up a sign saying, "Come and get me next!"

31 posted on 09/14/2007 3:08:42 PM PDT by Berosus ("The candidates that can't face Fox News can't face Al Qaeda."--Roger Ailes)
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