Posted on 05/04/2013 8:37:07 PM PDT by silentknight
Edited on 05/04/2013 9:50:12 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Strong blasts hit the outskirts of the Syrian capital early on Sunday, state TV reports, saying that Israeli rockets have targeted a military research center.
Massive explosions have been heard near Mount Qasioun in Damascus. The area hosts the Jamraya military research center, which came under Israeli attack earlier in January and marked the first incursion by Israel into Syrian airspace in six years.
A senior US official confirmed to NBC News that Israeli Air Force bombed the military research center.
RT has managed to speak to local journalist Abdallah Mawazini, for a report on the latest developments. Apart from the 300 soldiers who are said to have died and hundreds wounded, he reported the following:
“When the explosion happened in Damascus, all the houses were shaken. There was dust everywhere. Right now we’re receiving more information about the attack, which targeted the Jamraya military research center. Everyone woke up, most of the people ran downstairs – to make sure they are safe. Now we are getting more information. The sound of the explosion was heard everywhere in Damascus. People are scared.”
During the attack, one Israeli jet was reportedly shot down by Syria's Air Force, according to Hezbollah's Manar TV channel, citing security sources in Damascus.
"The new Israeli attack is an attempt to raise the morale of the terrorist groups which have been reeling from strikes by our noble army," Syrian television said.
There has been no immediate comment from Israel. "We don't respond to this kind of report," an Israeli military spokeswoman told Reuters.
US President Barack Obama said that he will let the “Israeli government confirm or deny whatever strikes they have taken,” RT’s Paula Slier quotes him.
Video footage uploaded onto the Internet showed a massive ball of fire rising into the sky. RT could not immediately verify the authenticity of the videos.
The Israeli Air Force conducted an airstrike on Syrian territory on Friday, reportedly targeting a shipment of advanced missiles. Unnamed US officials claimed that the missiles had been en-route from Iran to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Among the varying descriptions of the actual rockets, Fateh 110s have come up, which are advanced enough to strike Tel Aviv from southern Lebanon and, therefore perceived as a threat by Israel.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon earlier told journalists that any alleged delivery of Syrian weapons to Hezbollah would be considered a "red line." Ya'alon then said Israel would not permit "sophisticated weapons" to fall into the hands of "Hezbollah or other rogue elements."
US President Barack Obama has also said in the past that the crossing of a ‘red line’ would warrant further action from outside. This was in relation to the possibility that Assad forces may have used chemical weapons against Syrians – a claim that is still being investigated, with no evidence so far.
Nonetheless, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced on Thursday that the US may now consider arming the Syrian opposition – something the US has shied away from openly doing in the two years since the start of the Syrian uprising.
Asked directly if the administration was reconsidering its position on that option, Hagel said "yes". "Arming the rebels — that's an option," he said. "We must continue to look at options."
The conflict in Syria has entered its third year. According to UN estimates, at least 70,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011.
I was momentarily pleased when someone on twitter reported it as “nukleari bombom”.
Pity it wasn’t.
bttt
How many times since that was written has Damascus been destroyed to the point it ceased to be a city?
Now it really begins.
Damascus is the longest lived-in city in the world having never been destroyed.
http://www.raptureready.com/featured/gillette/Isaiah_17.html
Sadly, when Damascus is destroyed, Israel will also be “abandoned like the grain fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest. Only a few of its people will be left, like the stray olives left on the tree after the harvest.”
The point seems to be that Israel has once again become primarily secular today - like the rest of the world. And just as they abandoned their God and were punished by exile to Babylon, so seems that this prophesy of the destruction of Damascus (and the poor conditions in Israel) is similar.
From some prophecy site - interesting stuff:
A Related Damascus Prophecy?
Some think Amos 1:3-5 is related to Isaiah 17. They surmise that Syria’s attacks against Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973 are the first three transgressions mentioned in Amos’ passage, and that if Syria attacks Israel once more, God will allow Damascus’ destruction prophesied by Isaiah.
Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
Which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven,
And the one who holds the scepter from Beth Eden.
The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir,”
Says the Lord.
(Amos 1:3-5 NKJ)
Wolf Blitzer doesn’t even work much during the week unless you call reading what someone else has written from a teleprompter work.
Looks like the area was already in flames from previous strikes and then we see either secondary explosions in the high point or those were other rockets hitting a target. The last one was incredibly impressive that I would say was about the same size or larger than the Texas fertilizer plant explosion. Was hard to get any good depth perception in the dark.
Re 23: Apparently Damascus is the oldest continually inhabited city in recorded human history.
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bttt
He is too busy looking for the teaparty radicals involved with the Boston bombing
No, they are too busy rolling up their prayer rugs...
The point seems to be that Israel has once again become primarily secular today - like the rest of the world. And just as they abandoned their God and were punished by exile to Babylon, so seems that this prophesy of the destruction of Damascus (and the poor conditions in Israel) is similar.
The Golden Calf has grown up to be a hollow Bronze Bull.
Great song...
'You mean like Detriot?'
If there's one thing I cain't abide it's an ethno-centric racist... now you take back that thing you said about Aristittle Onasis.....
I had a cassette tape deck in my wrecker my first tour of Germany in the 70's and can recite every line in the album....
Well............. it is well known on the 'interwebs' that if you want factual coverage, there are only three good sources.
(1) RT (Russia Today)
(2) AJTV (Al Jazeera TV)
(3) FR Free Republic
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