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Iranian Early Warning Station, Anti-Air Base On Lebanese Peak
DEBKAfile ^ | July 12, 2008

Posted on 07/12/2008 7:45:29 PM PDT by Fennie

In the past few weeks, Hezbollah at the behest of Iran and Syria has commandeered the 7,800-foot Mt. Sannine, a strategic asset capable of determining the outcome of the next war, as DEBKA-Net Weekly 356 revealed.

Radar-guided missile positions and an early warning station have since been deployed on its summit, which are capable of monitoring and threatening US Sixth Fleet movements in the eastern Mediterranean and Israel Air Force flights.

This development was serious enough for Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak to repeat three times in as many days that the IDF is keeping a close watch on events in the northern front, especially the deepening ties between Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah. Barak travels to Washington this week.

Mt. Sannine, which dominates the roads connecting Beirut and Damascus, is one of the most prized strategic assets in the region. It was fought over for years by Syria and Israel, both seeking to control this ideal vantage point for an early warning station to command the eastern Mediterranean, the northern half of Israel and the Damascus region.

Its takeover on behalf of Tehran places Israeli security at a grave disadvantage. This topic is expected to figure large in the talks French president Nicolas Sarkozy holds with visiting Syrian ruler Bashar Assad this week...


TOPICS: Israel; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombbombbombbombiran; debka; geopolitics; iran; iraq; israel; lebanon; mohammedanism; obama; proliferation; saudiarabia; syria; waronterror; wot
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To: Fennie

Pelosi & feinds want to realease oil from the strategic reserve. Brilliant bunch of boobs.


21 posted on 07/12/2008 8:43:57 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Rembrandt
Precisely.

If memory serves, the first thing to get blasted in the 1991 Gulf War was Saddam's "early warning site" courtesy of our AH-64 Apache helicopters.

There is nothing wrong with Mohammed's radar sites that American pilots cannot fix.


22 posted on 07/12/2008 8:46:28 PM PDT by Prole (Pray for the families of Chris and Channon.)
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To: Fennie

Debka Ping! Woot!


23 posted on 07/12/2008 9:03:57 PM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Know the difference between honoring diversity and honoring perversity? No? You must be a liberal!)
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To: Fennie; All

Interesting,,,

Google Earth don’t even show a road much less a site there,,,(7,000 ft.view)

Billy Goat Country,,,Steep,Steep!...;0)...BS...


24 posted on 07/12/2008 9:28:37 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

Are goat’s in season? :)


25 posted on 07/12/2008 9:32:11 PM PDT by jedward (tag _________________________)
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To: Rembrandt
I was thinking of the fun the special ops guy were having trying to decide which method (”black” spy sat/laser beam, robotic army of mindless droids or stealth missile to use to take this thing out faster than the tech can paper/rock/scissor to determine who gets to push the button) that would work to take out some muzzie with a set of binoculars on a hilltop?
26 posted on 07/12/2008 9:34:24 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
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To: Fennie

Hmmmm....if you backsass the Iranian sergeant I bet you get a one way ticket there. He, he, he.


27 posted on 07/12/2008 9:36:20 PM PDT by jokyfo ("OBAMA" is Arabic for "CIPHER" and Farsi for "VACUUM")
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To: ConservativeMan55

After watching that video, i need to take a break and call in a marker from my wife....be right back. /h


28 posted on 07/12/2008 9:36:21 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
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To: jedward

BWAhahahaha,,,Hey You,,,ALWAYS...;0)


29 posted on 07/12/2008 9:47:37 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

There’s just too much interesting stuff going on right now not to have popped in lol. Hope all has been well for you!


30 posted on 07/12/2008 9:51:55 PM PDT by jedward (tag _________________________)
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To: jedward

It’s gitin’ plum krazzy out there,,,

Fine here,,,Hope ya’ll are all ok tooo...;0)


31 posted on 07/12/2008 10:02:38 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: jedward

1.High upon a mountain, tell me, what do you see?
F C
Bear tracks, bear tracks looking back at me.
C
Better get your rifle boys, before it’s too late
F C
The bear’s got a little pig and he’s heading for the gate
G C
Chorus: He’s big around the middle, and he’s broad across the rump
G C
Running ninety miles an hour, taking thirty feet a jump
C
He ain’t never been caught, he ain’t never been treed
F C
Some folks say he looks a lot like me.

2.Saved up my money and I bought me some bees
Started growing honey way up in the trees
Saved up my money but the honey’s all gone
Old Slewfoot’s gone and made himself a home. (Chorus)

3.Winter’s coming on and it’s forty below
River’s froze over, so where can he go?
We’ll run him up the gully, and we’ll chase him in the well
Shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell. (Chorus)
~~~
LOL;0)


32 posted on 07/12/2008 10:12:09 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

LOL


33 posted on 07/12/2008 10:13:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

I like :)


34 posted on 07/12/2008 10:15:14 PM PDT by jedward (tag _________________________)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

Yep, we’re doin’ just fine. Fine as Georgia wine ;)


35 posted on 07/12/2008 10:16:47 PM PDT by jedward (tag _________________________)
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To: jedward

Great to hear,,,Fo’Sho!,,,

Lotta smoke-n-mirrors and shuck-n-jive out there :

http://www.daily.pk/world/worldnews/84-worldnews/5481-israeli-jets-using-iraqs-airspace.html

LOL,,,NOOOOOOOT!!!,,,

I need a dozer to get to the bottom of the BS pile...;0)


36 posted on 07/12/2008 10:31:39 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

“I need a dozer to get to the bottom of the BS pile...;0)”

LMAO!!! Now that’s funny...and true lol


37 posted on 07/12/2008 10:35:14 PM PDT by jedward (tag _________________________)
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To: jedward

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044690/posts

And Another!!!,,,HALP,HALP!...LMAOROF...;0)


38 posted on 07/12/2008 10:38:47 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

From that link...

“Contradicting recent reports”.....round’n-round’n...etc. heh heh


39 posted on 07/12/2008 10:42:39 PM PDT by jedward (tag _________________________)
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To: jedward
Image and video hosting by TinyPic ...;0)
40 posted on 07/12/2008 10:48:32 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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