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'If NATO attacks Syria, we'll fire missiles at Tel Aviv' (Syria's Assad)
Jerusalem Post ^ | 10/4/2011 | Staff

Posted on 10/04/2011 10:37:20 AM PDT by mojito

Syrian President Bashar Assad warned western countries on Tuesday that if Syria comes under NATO attack it would fire missiles at Tel Aviv, Iranian semi-official news agency FARS reported.

During a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmad Davutoglu, Assad allegedly threatened: "If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than 6 hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv."

According to the report, Assad also reiterated that Damascus will call on Hezbollah to launch such an intensive rocket and missile attack on Israel.

"All these events will happen in three hours, and in the following three hours, Iran will attack the US warships in the Persian Gulf and the US and European interests will be targeted simultaneously," Assad said, according to FARS.

Assad's comments came as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would set out his country's plans for sanctions against Syria after he visits a Syrian refugee camp near the border in the coming days.

The move heralds a further deterioration in previously friendly relations between Ankara and Damascus since the start of Assad's crackdown on protesters.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; erdogan; europeanunion; hezbollah; israel; nato; syria; turkey
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Assad is becoming unglued as Turkey and Syria get closer to a shooting war.
1 posted on 10/04/2011 10:37:25 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito
Great foreign policy work, Hillary.
2 posted on 10/04/2011 10:39:35 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: mojito
I suppose we should all come to expect this of any Moslem nation: "Attack us and we will shoot at Israel."
3 posted on 10/04/2011 10:45:06 AM PDT by rjsimmon (1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: org.whodat

It starts at the top. Assad may have hit on a way to keep Obama from hiding behind NATO, as he did in Libya. Of course, this assumes that Obama wouldn’t regard an attack on Israel as acceptable collateral damage.


4 posted on 10/04/2011 10:45:53 AM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: org.whodat

Be nice. Hillary is doing the best she can. Seriously...And it scares hell out of me!


5 posted on 10/04/2011 10:46:07 AM PDT by donozark (British Army; Fighting proudly in Afghanistan since 1839.)
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If NATO attacks Syria, we'll fire missiles at Tel Aviv' (Syria's Assad)

...which would likely be the last thing that (Syria's Assad) does.

If assad intends to do damage, he must fire a LOT of missiles...

...maybe his entire arsenal since the ability to fire any more after the first volley will be gone.

6 posted on 10/04/2011 10:47:04 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: mojito

Um, ok. So NATO just flatens the Goland Height too. As and added kick in the b@lls, Israel gets to then build more settlements.


7 posted on 10/04/2011 10:47:40 AM PDT by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: mojito

Sounds fair. Of course, the Israelis may see fit to do some above-ground nuclear testing in Damascus.


8 posted on 10/04/2011 10:48:19 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Little Ray

I suspect there is some increased “activity” around Dimona, as I speak....


9 posted on 10/04/2011 10:50:18 AM PDT by donozark (British Army; Fighting proudly in Afghanistan since 1839.)
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To: mojito

I’m also wondering what makes this clown think his “hundreds of rockets and missiles” will make it to the Golan in any conditions to launch.


10 posted on 10/04/2011 10:50:39 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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if Syria comes under NATO attack

If Syria attacks Israel, they will be leveled and that is without King Obama's communists refusal to give Israel its backing.

11 posted on 10/04/2011 10:50:47 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: mojito

good luck with that

I have a feeling that sooner or later Israel will have to set about 10 Muslim capitols ablaze with radioactive fire.


12 posted on 10/04/2011 10:50:59 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: mojito

Marked for Death.


13 posted on 10/04/2011 10:51:02 AM PDT by sappy
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To: mojito

The Arab world has never had a republican nor democratic form of government. Assay may no be a great guy, but we have no business getting involved there. Instability in the Middle East began with Carter throwing the Shaggy of Iran under the bus.


14 posted on 10/04/2011 10:51:18 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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Attack us and we will shoot at Israel

That might work, if the President and Sec State gave one whit about Israel.

15 posted on 10/04/2011 10:53:57 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: mojito

Who will defend Israel if she is attacked?


16 posted on 10/04/2011 11:14:26 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: gundog
If you look it up you will find that I said, obummer and NATO’s illegal war in Libya would result in everybody in the small countries developing a dead mans trigger for stand off warfare. They have no other option to protect themselves.
17 posted on 10/04/2011 11:14:58 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: SJackson

for your review & possible ping.

Kind of confused, though, since that guy from Turkey hates Israel as well.


18 posted on 10/04/2011 11:16:42 AM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (everything written by me on FR is my personal opinion & does not represent my employer)
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To: Genoa

Israel.


19 posted on 10/04/2011 11:20:50 AM PDT by papertyger (Make no mistake: Sheepdogs are for keeping sheep in, not keeping wolves out.)
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To: mojito

I seem to remember a prophecy about Damascus being utterly erased.

Isaiah, I think...


20 posted on 10/04/2011 11:22:26 AM PDT by papertyger (Make no mistake: Sheepdogs are for keeping sheep in, not keeping wolves out.)
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