Posted on 09/12/2006 12:30:17 AM PDT by Eurotwit
Edited on 09/12/2006 12:46:33 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
10:25 Witnesses: Syrian forces surround U.S. embassy in Damascus, seal off area (Reuters)
10:22 Witnesses: Heavy gunfire heard in central Damascus (Reuters)
10:21 Black smoke said rising from area around U.S. embassy in Damascus (Reuters)
Update
Last update - 10:38 12/09/2006
Witnesses: Gunfire, explosions near U.S. embassy in Damascus
By Haaretz Service and news agencies
Syrian security forces surrounded the U.S. embassy in Damascus early on Tuesday and sealed off the area, witnesses said, adding that heavy gunfire and explosions had been heard in the area.
"It appears that the embassy is coming under attack," one resident in the area told Reuters.
There was no independent confirmation of the initial reports.
Strategerist's traumatized childhood is right on par with the trauma of death and destruction endured by children living in NYC on 911-01.
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See, that's what I heard about yesterday's tape, attacks against American interests in the Persian Gulf & against Israel.
The stuff posted by ganeshpuri89 on #245 is a whole different ballgame.
Well, what brought that on was I made a Off Topic response to tunnels and compared it to the tunnels at our borders.
Besides tunnels, some of our guys have gotten caught taking payment to look the other way. It's not like we have a wall on our border or anything. Fing Sentate turning border protection bill into a bill to give freebies to illegals.
Duck and Cover in case of nuclear attack was still being taught as late as 1985, or at least it was in my elementary school in TN; in fact, we got some of the old Civil Defense training, such as was suitable for children our age. By the time I was in a California high school, though, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the USSR was on its last legs; nobody thought that duck-and-cover would be useful in a CD role (though it was still taught for earthquakes only)
Off Topic, but Interesting:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3142822997604616670&q=Syria&hl=en
"Kurds protest against Kurdistan Syria"
2 min 56 sec - Sep 3, 2006
Not what I want to read on a day when 2-3 folks are predicting the start of WW III in the Middle East.
May God have mercy on us and slap the idiots down fast before it escalates.
Having been at my sons' high school during a lock down, leaving as the police were coming in the door with rifles (prior to 911)), current crop of kids have been given more than their fair share of things to make them lose their innocence.
Along those lines, the North Koreans still have one of our ships, and I want it back - that or destroyed to remove it from their hands.
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Have long felt that way.
i am fairly certain you are wrong on this. Iran is another example of a country US firms are banned from doing business in. One US oil company was until recently doing maintenance work on an offshore facility owned by iran from a pre-revolution contract, but no one can do anything with iran proper. mark rich got into his bind over that, and had to pay off the clinton team to get a pardon much later.
look at all the european investment in foreign-tourist areas/hotels of cuba. there is a reason why no US company is there, and it isn't patriotism.
It is the responsibility of the host government to protect the embassies within their country. The Syrian military surrounding our embassy is probably for that purpose.....to stand against anyone attacking our people.
That is a possible explanation of this report. Some group is attacking the embassy and the Syrian army is fulfilling their obligation.
Depends on where a corporation is chartered. If a multinational is chartered in a country that doesn't participate in the embargo, Cuba may allow foreign investments. I don't think Cuba allows foreign investment in sugar & tobacco.
I don't know what Peter Paul's FReeper handle is, but he got mixed up in some Cuban trading... something involving coffee. I read something at FR with the details, but I can't remember the details of it anymore.
Thanks.
Very glad that's the extent of it.
I haven't felt the alarm I'd expect to feel if things were going to go literally ballistic.
Though I've been far from infallible in my life! LOL.
A van, which appears undamaged, was also shown.
Inside were what appeared to be gas canisters.
Some of the van's contents were unloaded on to the street.
stepping back in time...
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "COOKING WITH GAS" (NOTE: The following text (minus the graphic) is a quote: "Another in the series of how-to-murder-and-mutilate films produced jointly by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and HizbAllah is making the rounds. Summary: Brain-dead simple instructions for mixing benzene with acetylene and oxygen in a benzene cooking gas tank, capped with a home-made detonator constructed of brass fittings, epoxy, match heads and a little wax. The classic (pre-ANFO) Middle Eastern car/truck bomb from Lebanon, the land of the amazing exploding Mercedes.") (May 28, 2006)
Trivia: Destroyed car appears to be an older Subaru Impreza, possibly an RS or WRX. :(
I did the Air Raid drills. Stand Up, pull out your chair, and duck under your desk with your head on your knees and hands over your head.
That was grade school in the 50's. Somehow I related them to the Russians.
It seems they were as regular as fire drills are now, maybe 4 or 5 a year.
In junior high and early high school, the Kruschchev 'we will bury you' and personal bomb shelter era were frightening for me, and I definitely, even as a kid, was aware of the probability of annihilation.
I think the the Sputnik orbits in 1957, Sputnik 1 in Oct, and Sputnik II with the dog (Laika) in November shocked the US and bred the anxiety that Russia could deliver nukes. The first manned space orbit, Yuri Gagarin in April 1961, increased the tension that Russia may be technologically superior, and that increasing tension culminated in the Cuban missile crisis in October, 1962.
During the latter, I truly thought I was on the earth for the last days. That was lump in the throat, knot in the belly time. In school nobody really seemed to want to say anything, but it was obvious we were all convinced we were going to be blown off the face of the earth. They were an eerily silent, gut-wrenching couple of days.
It still is a very vivid memory for me, all these years later, on the same scale of my first hearing of the Kennedy assasination which happened a year later.
longjack
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