Posted on 10/20/2009 1:17:41 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Arab media in the Persian Gulf have been reporting that Syria, apparently on the orders of Iran, has turned over about 300 long range ballistic missiles to Hezbollah control. The missiles have apparently not left Syria (they would be hard to miss, being driven around southern Lebanon). The reports add that Hezbollah personnel are being trained to operate the missiles.
Syria has underground storage and launch facilities for its arsenal of over a thousand SCUD missiles. Armed with half ton high explosive and cluster bomb warheads, the missiles have ranges of 500-700 kilometers. Syria also has some 90 older Russian Frog-7 missiles (70 kilometer range, half ton warhead) and 210 more modern Russian SS-21 missiles (120 kilometer range, half ton warhead) operating with mobile launchers. There are also 60 mobile SCUD launchers. The Syrians have a large network of camouflaged launching sites for the mobile launchers. Iran and North Korea have helped Syria build underground SCUD manufacturing and maintenance facilities. The Syrian missiles are meant to hit Israeli airfields, missile launching sites and nuclear weapons sites, as well as population centers. Syria hopes to do enough damage with a missile strike to cripple Israeli combat capability. Hezbollah is more interested in killing civilians, and would aim their missiles at Israeli cities.
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He’ll need a few months to ‘think about it’. In the mean time Israel should put a lid in it and be happy for Hezbollah’s attentions. Hey, this will be another hem & haw moment for Barry to waffle in. The press will cover for his goofing around and the world will go on.
This ain’t FR sidebar material.
I think oil is still priced too high. I’ll have to admit to that being a gut feeling pulled out of the nether regions, but $80 per barrel just seems silly to me.
This drives my desire to see us use a lot less of it.
Putin is a guy that could have put his nation on a path to join the West and be a transformative figure for Russia. Instead he has made his Eastern alliance. That has resulted in him being a transformative figure, but it will never make his nation great and secure.
He isn’t a dummy. It just baffles me to see him fight the West, when he could cooperate with it and benefit from that cooperation.
Well, it seems to me you can’t let this take place. Those bombs will cause serious damage. They can’t be allowed to be deployed.
Ok. Thank you for the reminder
Thanks F15Eagle. Yes, that Georgian thing seemed more geared to showing the West what a tiger he was. Was it really worth the effort when you get down to it?
More silliness IMO...
SCUDS could mean a cem-wep attack on Israel,,,(nerve gas),,,
Google Earth shows mines on the Syrian side of that
mountain range but none in Lebanon,,,
Jeffers had some good maps of that AO,,,
IMHO: Moozzi could overload Israel's ADA at this point,,,
Then there's this :
Attack submarines underway (away from homeport): 36 subs (66%
Palestinian bomb-rocket workshop uncovered in Jerusalem’s Abu Dis village
Debka | 16 Oct | Debka
Posted on 10/20/2009 12:10:01 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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