Posted on 11/02/2009 1:09:36 PM PST by ventanax5
In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert. The incident could have led to war, but it was hushed up by all sides. Was it a nuclear plant and who gave the orders for the strike?
The mighty Euphrates river is the subject of the prophecies in the Bible's Book of Revelation, where it is written that the river will be the scene of the battle of Armageddon: "The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East."
Today, time seems to stand still along the river. The turquoise waters of the Euphrates flow slowly through the northern Syrian provincial city Deir el-Zor, whose name translates as "monastery in the forest." Farmers till the fields, and vendors sell camel's hair blankets, cardamom and coriander in the city's bazaars. Occasionally archaeologists visit the region to excavate the remains of ancient cities in the surrounding area, a place where many peoples have left their mark -- the Parthians and the Sassanids, the Romans and the Jews, the Ottomans and the French, who were assigned the mandate for Syria by the League of Nations and who only withdrew their troops in 1946. Deir el-Zor is the last outpost before the vast, empty desert, a lifeless place of jagged mountains and inaccessible valleys that begins not far from the town center.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
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Moon worshippers dabbling in the arts and crafts of Mordor. The “Eagles” showed their quality once again.
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Mark for later reading of an article that does not get to the point...
You can be sure as the sun rises, that if the Israelis plan on attacking Iran, AND THEY TELL OBAMA, THE HOW WHEN WHERE AND WHY ETC. BEFORE HAND, Iran will be notified in a heart beat.
Mossad should lay down some test runs, i.e. let out some information to the Obama people and see if it gets into the hands of the Iranians. And if so, they better wise up.
Obama is a bigger threat to Israel than he is to us. He’s someone whom in the end, will have been a footnote in our history.
Whatever he does to the United States can be undone...
Interesting article. Do you think Israel used nuclear weapons in their bombing run against Syria? Read the article and decide for yourself. My guess is that they did. Small nuclear weapon device that was sent via their jets.
A very welcome article on how evil is being defeated in these troubling times.
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I recall reading about something called a "canary trap" designed to find the source of leaks of classified material. Non-critical classified information is fed to the suspects, but each gets a slightly different version. Which version gets leaked ID's the perp.
Geez, no kidding..."Farmers till the fields, and vendors sell camel's hair blankets..." was as far as I got.
I hate to quote Nancy Pelosi, but "Are you serious?"
If the Israelis had used even a small tactical nuclear weapon, it would be front page news. You cannot hide any nuclear explosion these days, not even the smallest one capable of being built.
It would be hypothetically possible for the Israelis to have salted the area or their bombs with radioactive trace elements, but that would be stupid on their part as all nuclear materials can be traced by their chemical fingerprint to indicate where, when and who processed it.
If you are going to offer up such an ignorant guess as you do above, first know something about what you are talking about before you speak or run the risk of making a complete fool out of yourself.
In September 2007, Israeli fighter jets destroyed a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert. The incident could have led to war, but it was hushed up by all sides. Was it a nuclear plant and who gave the orders for the strike?
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interesting
thanks for posting
a lot to digest
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Thanks for posting.
Seems like Syria would be squealing like all get out that they were pre-emptively attacked. It would be more evidence that Israel is anti-Arab.
The fact that Syria basically did nothing makes me wonder if an attack against Iran would be the same.
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