Posted on 07/28/2006 9:57:24 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
DEBKAfile reports a war council in Damascus chaired by Syrian president Bashar Assad, attended by Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah and senior Iranian official Ali Larijani
July 28, 2006, 4:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran‘s state news agency confirmed Nasrallah’s presence in the Syrian capital “for consultations.”
DEBKAfile’s military sources note that Nasrallah crossed over despite the heavy Israeli air bombardment of Lebanese-Syrian border regions. The war conference is attended also by Hamas leaders Khaled Meshaal and Mussa Abu Marzouk as well as the Palestinian Jihad Islami chief Abdallah Ramadan Shelah. The Palestinian terrorist leaders were invited in their capacity as commanders of the second front against Israel in Gaza.
This anti-Israel coalition will no doubt decide on the two fronts’ next steps in their war against the “Zionist enemy.” The fact that Assad is there and the consultation is taking place in his capital indicates that he and the other participants feel confident enough to decide on a further escalation of the violence.
The conference began hours after the Israeli cabinet decided against broadening the campaign against Hizballah or attacking Syria indicating that Tehran, Damascus, Hizballah and the Palestinian terrorists sensed a weakening of Israel’s resolve to fight back. This sort of soft talk from Jerusalem is not taken on trust but makes the Syrians suspect that Israel is playing a double game. Their response will be to redouble their hostilities in the very near future.
Let it happen. It is time this war against Islamic radicalism and terrorism was fought, and fought hard to be won.
Do you remember your history from Central Europe around 1914, about mobilization for war? Once you mobilize for war, you cannot turn back. When Israel called up 30,000 reservist, it's not the end, but the end of the beginning.
Just one MOAB...
Is it just me, or is there something wrong with the shape of Assad's head ?
He probably walked over wearing a burkha and pushing a baby carriage.
Really, the best thing that could happen is for them to be emboldened enough to stand up and fight. Israel can readily and quickly destroy them if they can idetify them - plus, it would make it a lot easier for us to help.
Just today, wasn't it?
Ass-Head?.........
Chirac will be upset he wasn't invited.
Escalate? What is this about "escalate"? They can't escalate. This is supposed to be just a little skirmish over the disappearance of a couple of low-ranking soldiers that Israeli's overreacted to. It will all be over with before the kiddies go back to school, the Israeli's will pay reparations to the poor defenseless muslims, give up some more land and we can get back to the business of re-electing democrats.
Escalate? Yeah... that was too funny. You almost had us going on that one.
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Hopefully tthe Israelis will soon finish the roundup and the Masad's intel has been accurate. Assad, The Puppet Whimp, didn't call the meeting....I can assure you that.
I'm surprised that DEBKA didn't mention the Martian delegation of al Qaeda that flew in from Phobos to attend President Asshat's "war council".
Sorry my FRiend, anytime I see "DEBKA", red flags appear everwhere.
Q - Is it true that "DEBKA" stands for "Don't Even Believe Kennedy was Assassinated?
Have a nice day! :)
That would be nice, but can you imagine what the MSM and the Europeans would do if the IDF managed to kill them all!
The conference began hours after the Israeli cabinet decided against broadening the campaign against Hizballah or attacking Syria indicating that Tehran, Damascus, Hizballah and the Palestinian terrorists sensed a weakening of Israel’s resolve to fight back. This sort of soft talk from Jerusalem is not taken on trust but makes the Syrians suspect that Israel is playing a double game. Their response will be to redouble their hostilities in the very near future.
It takes more than a few hours to set up such a meeting, and there have been lots of indications that Syria and Hezbollah are lacking in confidence about how the war they started is going.
This reads like more of the same spin we've heard since this started about how the US is pressuring Israel to stop fighting, or how the US only gave Israel until the end of the first week, and then another week before they had to stop going after Hezbollah.
The IDF says they are going to stage their progress more slowly to avoid ambushes from terrorists attacking from areas that they overran but did not control.
The naysayers say they are calling off an offensive and are getting ready to cave.
Now they are saying that this meeting, if it is occurring, is a direct result of the Israelis not rushing forward with their attack, yet there's no possible way such a meeting could be organized that quickly.
This meeting had to be set up before Israel decided to take things more slowly.
In the days and weeks following 9/11, I actually subscribed to DEBKA, because I was frustrated at the lack of news coverage of this "new" (actually not so new) enemy. To say that they were and are prone to hyperbole would be kind. But, I did find that their coverage of Israel was much closer to being spot-on, and oftentimes was the earliest or only source. So, yes, take DEBKA with a grain of salt, but they're not entirely without merit.
My old secretary in Mpls referred to her ex-husband as "ass-face."
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