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Report: Syria's Assad Killed
Russia Interior Ministry via Twitter | 10:12 A.M. EDT Monday, August 6, 2012 | V. Kolokoltsez

Posted on 08/06/2012 7:44:11 AM PDT by kristinn

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS: BASHAR AL ASSAD, PRESIDENT OF SYRIA, HAS BEEN KILLED TODAY IN LATAKYJA WITH HIS WIFE AND TWO PEOPLE.


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KEYWORDS: alittlebirdietoldme; harryreidtoldme; syria; twitter
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To: kristinn

Nothing on Reuters, Yahoo News or Google News.


61 posted on 08/06/2012 8:32:46 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: kristinn
Vogue won't find her so fashionable now


62 posted on 08/06/2012 8:32:46 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Remember when we used to laugh here about how many OBL top Lieutenants were killed? There was always a slot open for Obama’s number 3.


63 posted on 08/06/2012 8:34:58 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (ABO 2012)
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To: kristinn

Convenient that Russian troops just arrived to keep “their” port open.....


64 posted on 08/06/2012 8:35:42 AM PDT by G Larry (Progressives are Regressive because their objectives devolve to the lowest common denominator.)
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To: central_va

Oh fer cryin’ out loud-I had an appointment with him next Tuesday!;)


65 posted on 08/06/2012 8:40:34 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: kristinn

The only thing I accept at face value from any government is the news that some political foe has been taken out. However, I’m not sure this is coming from any source other than the rumor mill at this point.


66 posted on 08/06/2012 8:40:51 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: Pollster1

Good point: Russia may have gotten involved just because they knew he’d be out one way or another and the USA wouldn’t be installing anyone first-world friendly.


67 posted on 08/06/2012 8:42:34 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: kristinn

We are likely being hustled.

Looks like a fake twitter account, bogus story.

Very credible report that Assad’s wife flew out of Syria last week to Russia.

Also, Assad is very unlikely to be in Latakia, he was last seen in Damascus.


68 posted on 08/06/2012 8:43:14 AM PDT by gandalftb (The art of diplomacy says "nice doggie", until you find a bigger rock.)
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To: kristinn

Syrian Prime Minister Reportedly Has Defected

Syria’s Prime Minister Riad Hijab reportedly has defected to Jordan, according to a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman (FoxNews)


69 posted on 08/06/2012 8:47:03 AM PDT by zipper (espions sur les occupants)
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To: kristinn

Business Insider says this is fake:

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-bunch-of-people-are-getting-duped-by-this-fake-twitter-account-thats-saying-syrian-president-assad-is-dead-2012-8


70 posted on 08/06/2012 8:47:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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ANKARA, Turkey – Syria’s prime minister defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman said Monday, evidence that the cracks in President Bashar’s Assad’s regime have reached the highest echelons of government.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/06/syrian-prime-minister-fired-less-than-2-months-after-taking-office/#ixzz22gfSxpEv


71 posted on 08/06/2012 8:49:20 AM PDT by zipper (espions sur les occupants)
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To: Pollster1

Unless as you hope the Russians manage to install a replacement (meaning another Ba’athist, and a continuation of the fighting between the Syrian government and the Syrian Islamists) his replacement will certainly be worse for the remaining Christians in Syria (about 11% of the population), and most likely worse for Israel (the Ba’athists honored the Golan Heights agreement for decades, much longer than the ten year hudna that is the Islamists maximum duration for a peace with non-Muslims) and America.


72 posted on 08/06/2012 8:51:41 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: kristinn; mickie; oswegodeee
Well, actor/comedian Eddie Murphy was reported killed yesterday in a skateboarding accident in Lucerne, Switzerland....and then we found the reports of his death posted all over the internet were greatly exaggerated.

So, I shall reserve judgement on Assad's demise till it's confirmed and then the confirmation is confirmed.

Leni

73 posted on 08/06/2012 9:00:04 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: TomGuy

Bogus story, twitter is being pulled.

A lesson for us all, there are a lot of fake twitter and facebook accounts.


74 posted on 08/06/2012 9:17:44 AM PDT by gandalftb (The art of diplomacy says "nice doggie", until you find a bigger rock.)
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To: kristinn

Crude oil spiked on dumb HFT activity from algos that ‘read’ this tweet.

Which was probably the reason for the tweet: it moved the market.


75 posted on 08/06/2012 9:26:06 AM PDT by agere_contra (Vote ABO. Don't choose the Greater Evil and then boast about how principled you are)
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To: kristinn

Clearly it was not from blunt-force trauma to the head.
That had obviously already been tried several times, to no effect.


76 posted on 08/06/2012 9:30:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ladyjane

Hardly.
Of many things, he is also the grand Ghazi in the White House looking to generate the caliphate (at our expense in many ways). Goal number one is the eradication of Israel. After Israel it is Europe and or the US and not necessarily in that order.


77 posted on 08/06/2012 9:32:56 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: kristinn

Who put this garbage out, Pravada or Baghdad Bob!?? =.=


78 posted on 08/06/2012 9:44:35 AM PDT by cranked
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To: kristinn

I read a few day ago where his wife is not in Syria, but she is in Russia. It is wise that she and all the rest of family are not in Syria now. That place is a powder keg.


79 posted on 08/06/2012 9:44:48 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: kristinn

AHHHHHH bologna 7 hours ago and no news just a twitter i think the russians are wagging the dog !


80 posted on 08/06/2012 9:48:06 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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