Inside were what appeared to be gas canisters.
Some of the van's contents were unloaded on to the street.
OMG! Just one of those will level a house.
Do I count 7 tanks?
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.
Inside were what appeared to be gas canisters.
Some of the van's contents were unloaded on to the street.
OMG! Just one of those will level a house.
Do I count 7 tanks?
Maybe more...I first saw this on news video on BBC News station early this morning...and went searching for photos to post. What you don't see in these photos, that was shown in the video, is that outside of the van are cardboard boxes that I perceive were used to cover-up this bomb...so from outside the closed van you would have only seen cardboard boxes through the van's windows. A pretty chilling attempt...thankfully this attempt was stopped.
In my area we were doing the duck under your desk drills until the mid 70's.
Or from jimmuh
I grew up in south Florida, and was 12 in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, but have absolutely NO recollection of any drill in public school where you go underneath your school desk and cover your head, like that's going to save you from a nuclear blast. I've always assumed that when people talk about this exercise, it's one of those things you hear about and think you remember, but I can assure everyone that I never came across it. Also, even during those several days when the crisis was at its height, life was normal except for restricted access to maybe the seaport (where I found out many years later some military was based, but never saw a single military unit in town and we were a mile away) but people didn't go to Port Everglades anyway unless you worked there. In fact, I was out on the streets selling newspapers after school in those years, and probably saw more people and events than average. Lots of what people think they remember just didn't happen (at least in my part of south Florida).
Good. Three terror thugs killed and 1 hurt. Poor security guard, though.
>>attack on the US embassy in the center of the Syrian capital on Tuesday was a "terrorist operation", a government minister said.
Boy, that news report pins it right down. Heck, the Syrian government *is* a "terrorist operation", plus you've got all the freelancers in the region.
OPINION: There does seem to be a lot to choose from in that area, for sure.
On 11-22-1963 we were in the Bay of Florida looking for a U-2 plane Castro had shot down when we got the news that JFK had been assassinated. We were sure we were at war with the Soviets.
During the Cuba flap... we didn't do anything... everyone took for granted that the mushroom clouds would be sprouting any minute. Yet... as I recall... we were quite jocular about it.
I am 100% sure that the whole incident was orchestrated by the Syrian terrorist regime to show the world that Syria is also suffering from terrorism and fighting terrorism. We should never fall for the deceits of this Syrian Baath terrorist regime.
I remember routine Air Raid Drills at school. (at that time I was in school in NY Sate).
Some drills, we went to the hallways and some where we had to go the the basement (Offical Fallout Shelter). All of our schools were desingated fallout shelters. This is back in the early 60's.
The sound for the air raid drill was different than the routine fire drills.
Fallout Shelter Signs were posted in any public place that had basements or I would assume reinforced walls. They were everywhere and most commonly seen in stairwells marking the route to take.
Drills may have varied from state to state.
I also remember during school hours several sonic booms as military aircraft broke sound barrier nearby (What was then Stewart AF Base).
Our proximity to an AF base may have been why we had drills.
Remember when some of the schools had metal tubes attached to the 2nd floor to slide down in? If you didn't have long pants on, and didn't keep your arms folded, you arrived on the the ground like a peeled potato.
Its on cnn. 3 car bombs.
You said -- "I grew up in south Florida, and was 12 in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, but have absolutely NO recollection of any drill in public school where you go underneath your school desk and cover your head, like that's going to save you from a nuclear blast. I've always assumed that when people talk about this exercise, it's one of those things you hear about and think you remember, but I can assure everyone that I never came across it."
I can assure you that it went on in Texas, with me. I was there -- in Dallas and Houston. I remember the weekly sirens in Houston, at around noon, where you were supposed to seek out the nearest shelter (at least be aware of where it was). Everything stopped in downtown Houston for about one minute.
And then in Dallas, I remember our classes having to leave the classrooms, to go out into the hallways, and practice lining up along the hallways in the "protected positions" close to the walls, kneeling/squatting down, with one arm over the back of your head and neck and the other arm in front of your eyes.
So, it definitely went on and was practiced all the time.
Regards,
Star Traveler
"Israel can come in from the West, and we'll come in from the East and we'll hook up in the middle of Downtown Damascus."
Israel can move right through Syria and set up bases in the western desert with a clear path to Iran.
Interesting. Care to elaborate?
LOL! I grew up in NYC during the 1950s and when we had drills they would first show us a film of what would happen if Manhattan was nuked - first, of course, the entire island up to about 42nd St. would be vaporized, giant firestorms would sweep everything above that up to the Bronx, and heat and shock waves would blast everything up to Westchester - then they would tell us to practice getting under our desks for protection! Since my school was on 109th St., I really couldn't see the point of getting under my desk...
Wow! that memory was a blast from the past!
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