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Assad Confirmed Dead, Iran Attempts To Control Syria Army (?)
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/basharassadsyriaassassinationdeadiranrussiaarmyusisraelidfnatoturkeyalawitesobamanetanyahu48032413.html ^ | March 24, 2013 | Israel News Agency

Posted on 03/24/2013 7:56:10 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper

By Israel News Agency Staff

Jerusalem, Israel --- March 24, 2013 … Russian media sources have confirmed that Syria President Bashar Assad was shot by an Iranian bodyguard Saturday night.

"The lone assassination pumped several bullets at point blank range into Assad," said the source. "Assad was rushed to Al-Shami Hospital in Damascus in critical condition. He died on the operating table from heart failure resulting from massive blood loss."

An Israeli security analyst believes the report to be accurate.

"In the last 24 hours have we seen Assad? Any photographs or video? No. Nor will we see any as loyalists who are closest to Assad have been threatened if any leaked photos or reports reach Western media. Iran is attempting to take control of the Syrian army and its wealth of weapons as Syrian solders are now deserting in mass. I don't believe that the West will allow any Iranian control of Damascus."

"There was a reason why Barack Obama visited Israel. And it was not for a photo op with Miss Israel. I don't think Netanyahu would apologize to Turkey or to anyone. But if was between a dead Assad and saying sorry to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan I think there was no hesitation in making that telephone call to Ankara."

The Israeli analyst said that several events have taken place in the last 24 hours including the Syrian army shooting at an Israeli border patrol unit. It is believed that this action was coordinated by Assad loyalists who stood outside the dead President's hospital room to deflect the global media from the assassination and to pull Israel into a war with the Syrian army. The leader of the Western-backed Syrian opposition coalition announced he was resigning.

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


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To: gleeaikin
he is dead or injured, but not really confirmed.

Thanks for the links gleeaikin. I love the English language. It's not really confirmed, therefore it has not been conceived as to have occurred. There are reports of a miscarriage, and the entire charade has been unexpected with everything which may have happened being unverified. LOL ... it reads like a lame-stream drive by report. Had to have a little fun this AM, gleeaikin. No offense.

81 posted on 03/25/2013 4:56:59 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Your thought is accurate and true for this entire region.


82 posted on 03/25/2013 4:59:17 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Sioux-san

Turkey is in NATO because NATO is a Turkey.


83 posted on 03/25/2013 5:01:15 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: justa-hairyape

Agree with your analysis totally except for Obama being three under par, are you saying he’s at the miniature golf?

I would believe only three wrong picks so far. (Libya, Syria, Trust Medvedev).


84 posted on 03/25/2013 6:18:13 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: billhilly
I'd like to add that one of the main reasons we brought Turkey into NATO was to bottle up the Russian Navy in Odessa. It was also a way to show Russia who was boss when we stationed nuclear missiles on Turkish soil. That didn't work out so well.

Turkey, after Ataturk’s reforms, was ready to leave the muslim world behind, or so the thinking went, and join the Western nations. That didn't work out so well either.

As for surveillance of Russian ELINT, Turkey was much like Pakistan, but easier to access, it was also the only place which could get good tropospheric internal communications (phone calls and Molnya data), data dumps from Soviet mil and deep space satellites, direct access to cosmonaut comms, and also (until they went over to all landline) the only place to intercept the Soviet launch telemetry from Baikonur.

The U2 intel was great, but the ELINT was priceless

But, more often than not, the Turkish military hindered collection whenever they saw an opportunity.

Today Turkey, with its move to hardline Islam, is becoming more chaotic and dysfunctional internally, thus fast approaching irrelevance as a NATO member.

85 posted on 03/25/2013 6:54:02 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: RC one

Basher Assad should have asked Putin for some Spetsnaz guys for bodyguards. Tough hombres.


86 posted on 03/25/2013 7:46:22 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: txhurl; gleeaikin; Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ...

Thanks txhurl and gleeaikin for the pings here.

Additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3000699/posts


87 posted on 03/25/2013 5:24:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Peter ODonnell; no-to-illegals; SunkenCiv

pervasive interment of hardline islamic dictators opens the door to SUPERMAN. no. wait. take the chains off, open the gate to an ignorant rabid pack will bring on. no. wait. who funded the theory man didn’t land on the moon. no. wait. obama stands with israel...

hahaha

There is and has been a sytemic program of removing “despotic” rulers in islamic countries.

hahaha

WARE.


88 posted on 03/25/2013 6:41:30 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: bigheadfred

It’s just a coinky-dinky that Zero and Pruneface were right nextdoor when it all went down.


89 posted on 03/25/2013 7:58:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: PIF

I was in the middle east in the 1956-58 period, and nothing much seems to have changed. In the fall of 1957 there was a border dispute between Syria and Turkey that led to a near war. The Soviets announced their support for Syria, and , of course, we responded by sending a team up from Wheelus AFB in Libya to estabish a radar operation at Incerlic, 56 miles from the border. I was a part of that team. A standoff ensued, thankfully, and within a couple of months it was over. Just recently there was a border dispute between Syria and Turkey, and still the Jews and Arabs still hate each other, there are coups and plenty of brutal killings, and that ever burning sand. It is never changing, or so it seems to me.


90 posted on 03/26/2013 3:21:44 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: billhilly
I was at Sinope, Turkey in the 67-68 time frame. The year before, the locals had decided to turn the water off to the Hill because they had some dispute with the base command. Next to us was a small Turk Mil unit whose water came from the same source. Without any fuss, the Turkish Arty brigade took over some nearby positions and gave the locals an hour to turn the water back on, else they would shell the town flat. The water was back on in 5 minutes.

Walking around the countryside and town, it became apparent that most of the local customs were still rooted in the 14th Century. I have heard from another FRer that things have greatly changed since then, but I think the reference was directed at the cities. In any case, with the recent turn away from Ataturk and toward the Islamists, the old ways are likely back in full force - at least in the countryside.

As long as the ME & North Africa remain Islamic, things not only will not change, they cannot.

91 posted on 03/26/2013 4:10:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: bigheadfred

Amen fred. WARE


92 posted on 03/26/2013 4:58:32 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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