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Google Earth Photos Reveal Syrian Scuds
Aol.com ^ | 10/12/2010 | Matthew Kalman

Posted on 10/17/2010 12:47:14 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld

Israeli defense experts were still sounding alarms this week over Google Earth images made public Friday by the Israeli daily Haaretz. The satellite photos, taken March 22, show Scud missiles ready for deployment at a Syrian base at Adra, where earlier reports suggest Syria is training Hezbollah militants in the use of missiles that threaten large parts of Israel.

The photos show five 11-meter-long Scuds at the Adra base. Three are on trucks in a car park. Two others are in a training area where 20 to 25 people can be made out along with about 20 vehicles. One of the two missiles appears to be mounted on a mobile launcher; another is on the ground.

Earlier reports have suggested that the Adra base, located in a deep valley surrounded by 400-meter mountains, has concrete tunnels leading deep underground where the missiles are apparently stored in protected silos.

In 2006, Hezbollah rocket fire into Israel precipitated Israeli air strikes and a ground invasion of Lebanon. Hezbollah's month-long barrage of rockets deeply unsettled Israel; with Scud missiles, Hezbollah can strike all the major cities in Israel.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ballisticmissile; bekaavalley; google; googleearth; hezbollah; idf; israel; lebanon; middleeast; missiles; scud; syria; waronterror
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To: The Comedian; Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; AngieGal; AnimalLover; Ann de IL; aposiopetic; aragorn; ...

“Nuclear Terror” ping, maybe?


Plausibly.

Thx.


21 posted on 10/17/2010 7:35:22 AM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; dervish; ...

Thanks ErnstStavroBlofeld, but what’s the problem? ;’)


22 posted on 10/17/2010 8:07:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

The is only a small part of the world military build up.


23 posted on 10/17/2010 8:20:40 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

They should give the latitude and longitude so we can look them up in Google Earth ourselves.


24 posted on 10/17/2010 8:25:43 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

Oh, forget that.


25 posted on 10/17/2010 8:26:22 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Dallas59
Lowering the brightness and boosting contrast on that image helps considerably. (A bit of sharpening doesn't hurt, either...)

FWIW, that area is loaded with AAA and SAM sites! There is certainly something there they want to protect...

26 posted on 10/17/2010 8:31:43 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Lol, and I thought it was an aspirin plant.

Thanks for clearing that up. Now I can be at peace with myself that all is well still. /s


27 posted on 10/17/2010 8:35:36 AM PDT by thatjoeguy (Wind is just air, but pushier.)
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To: The Comedian
"Nuclear Terror" ping, maybe?

Hope not.

28 posted on 10/17/2010 8:41:40 AM PDT by houeto ("You know, I actually believe my own bullsh_t," --- BHO)
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To: Sawdring

Easy enough to figure out since they have it on Google maps. I just expanded the view, found the highway (5) and the site is just north of the highway between the two cities Adhra and Al’Qutayfah.

Its at:
33d 41’48.89” N
36d 30’54.17” E

Enjoy.


29 posted on 10/17/2010 8:49:18 AM PDT by thatjoeguy (Wind is just air, but pushier.)
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To: thatjoeguy; ErnstStavroBlofeld; Dallas59

Somebody must have given those guys a bunch of bulldozers as presents. They sure love pushing sand around!


30 posted on 10/17/2010 9:40:51 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: thatjoeguy

LOL


31 posted on 10/17/2010 12:08:40 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: KingLudd

Peace, fellow Freeper: I just asked a question concerning the abilities of bunker busters, not whether they should be used.


32 posted on 10/17/2010 2:12:05 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Hulka

Thanks. Always wondered how they work.


33 posted on 10/17/2010 2:13:49 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: thatjoeguy
33.414823 36.305340

You were 22 miles off.

34 posted on 10/17/2010 3:10:36 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: SatinDoll

You’re right. Peace.

Jittery lately, I’m in lock-and-load mode against Oslama 24/7. Have yourself a free bunker buster video on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuniKsBxZ10

(turn the volume down)


35 posted on 10/17/2010 5:52:16 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: KingLudd

Thanks for the video!


36 posted on 10/17/2010 7:35:41 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Stingray

I thought Iraq was going to sit this one out. From what I recall reading, that was one of the reasons THIS coming mess looked like the “one”. because in the past, Babylon was right mixed up in the middle of it.


37 posted on 10/18/2010 1:01:14 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (We are so screwed.)
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To: SatinDoll

Yeah. . .they penetrate deep and then blow, collapsing the structures. Exactly how they were designed.


38 posted on 10/18/2010 1:35:59 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld

Quick...print more “World Peace” bumper stickers!


39 posted on 10/18/2010 1:46:32 PM PDT by HalfFull ("Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" -PHenry)
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To: Sawdring

Not following you. Our Points are about 22 miles apart but yours places me on a road next to some farm land south east of Dimashq. Mine (deg, min, & sec.) places me directly on the base pictured above.

In decimal degrees its
33.696914 36.515047


40 posted on 10/18/2010 6:56:09 PM PDT by thatjoeguy (Wind is just air, but pushier.)
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