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U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base After Chemical Weapons Attack
NBC NEWS ^

Posted on 04/06/2017 6:18:08 PM PDT by navysealdad

The United States launched dozens of cruise missiles Thursday night at a Syrian airfield in response to what it believes was the Syrian government's use of banned chemical weapons blamed for having killed at least 100 people on Tuesday, U.S. military officials told NBC News.

The U.S. military fired at least 50 Tomahawk missiles intended for a single target — Ash Sha'irat in Homs province in western Syria, the officials said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: ashshairat; attack; base; chemicalweapons; cruisemissiles; homs; missiles; neocon; syria; syrian; tomahawk; tomahawkmissiles; trumpsyriastrike; worldpolice
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To: The Toll

One of the stupidest comments I have ever read on FR.

Congratulations.


201 posted on 04/07/2017 3:58:29 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: 21twelve

We warned the Russians to leave the base before the attack, thank God.


202 posted on 04/07/2017 4:01:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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203 posted on 04/07/2017 5:23:56 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: ichabod1

“It seems to me that one way of looking at it is that he is merely honoring osama’s red line - if WMD were used, there would be a response. Chemical despots.”

good point


204 posted on 04/07/2017 5:29:07 AM PDT by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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To: HollyB

Holly, they have the name of a Syrian general who ordered the attack. It’s been reported on Fox this morning. Sorry I don’t have the link at hand but it can’t be hard to find.

Since they have satellite imagery that shows that the attack originated from the place that we struck, there’s little doubt about that aspect. As to who gave the actual order....Assad obviously knew about it. This was use of weapons of mass destruction as we’ve seen. To my seeing, there is little doubt that Assad was at minimum in the loop.

Whether Russia or Iran were involved, is anybody’s guess. Still, the response was appropriate.


205 posted on 04/07/2017 10:39:11 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: prairiebreeze

Using the MSM as a source of information is not convincing to me. If I hear or see a quote of the general who ordered this - then maybe so.

In the mean time, I don’t believe it. Especially if McCain is supporting and in Trump’s ear.


206 posted on 04/07/2017 10:54:38 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

Very well then. I’ll leave you with your disappointment.


207 posted on 04/07/2017 1:50:52 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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