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Al Nusrah Front seizes Syrian base in joint operation with Free Syrian Army
The Long War Journal ^ | October 12, 2012 | By Bill Roggio

Posted on 10/13/2012 12:55:56 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has seized control of an airbase near Aleppo in a joint operation with the supposedly secular Free Syrian Army. Video of the fighters at the airbase has appeared on the Internet.

The Al Nusrah Front and Free Syrian Army captured the airbase in al Ta'aneh near Aleppo yesterday after heavy fighting with the Syrian military. Scud tactical ballistic missiles as well as anti-aircraft missiles were housed at the airbase.

"A few hundred fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, Fajr al-Islam and a few members of the FSA [Free Syrian Army] took part in the operation which lasted for more than five hours," according to a statement attributed to "Abu Firas of the Revolutionary Council in Aleppo" that accompanied the video posted on a YouTube site.

"The airbase was completely destroyed. The fighters were able to control the whole base after a long fight in which many Syrian soldiers killed, some fled, and others were captured," the statement continued. "The fighters have set up many checkpoints around the base and were able to confiscate 20 different rockets."

(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alnusrahfront; alqaeda; assad; fajralislam; freesyrianarmy; fsa; jabhatalnusra; longwarjournal; shadowwars; syria; threatmatrix; waronterror

1 posted on 10/13/2012 12:56:01 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

So the Clinton/Obama foreign policy is to:

1. Kill as many Americans as possible overseas.
2. Give our enemies improved and more effective weaponry.
3. Turn over allied ME states to enemy control.

It is like watching WW2 in reverse with the US giving up territory and withdrawing so the Nazis can have a chance at governance.


2 posted on 10/13/2012 2:52:21 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Get past the ad and the barbaric intro music and here is the video of the captured missiles and base. In the wrong hands these could cause a lot of trouble in the world.
3 posted on 10/13/2012 3:12:31 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: 1010RD

clinton on gaddafi:
“We came, we saw, he died.”
And now:

“Besides the Al Nusrah Front, other al Qaeda-affiliated groups, such as Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, also operate in Syria. In addition, still other al Qaeda-style groups, such as the Al Baraa Ibn Malik Martyrdom Brigade, which has claimed that it will use suicide attacks, and the Omar al Farouq Brigade, have appeared in Syria as well.”

“Foreign jihadists have begun to pour into Syria to wage jihad against Assad’s regime. Fighters from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and the Palestinian Territories are known to have been killed in Syria.”


4 posted on 10/13/2012 3:23:43 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: 1010RD
Like in Libya, Obama is assuring that advanced weaponry will get to Al Qaeda and other transnational Islamist terrorists. Obama is spreading chaos and preparing the ground for the creation of the Greater Caliphate.
5 posted on 10/13/2012 3:51:14 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: MestaMachine

So how many bioweapons have Obama now placed in the hands of AQ?

We’ll know. Sooner or later.

Fighting the dam sugar. Going off getting coffe and meds now.


6 posted on 10/13/2012 4:17:16 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Hardraade

The dark of the moon starts in 5 4 3
You might already be there.


7 posted on 10/13/2012 4:35:16 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: Hardraade

And check out the last few posts on TM. Things are moving so fast, I can barely keep up with it...but I’m trying.


8 posted on 10/13/2012 4:38:28 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: MestaMachine

For a country that historically had very good humint we’ve, since JFK, come more and more to rely on high tech gadgetry and “special forces” over good intelligence and clear, strategic thinking.

You therefore lose your fingertip feel for what’s happening on the ground. It’s crazy.


9 posted on 10/13/2012 7:28:04 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Truth29

I’m not certain Obama knows the future or has a particular goal in mind. What I am certain about is, like all Leftists, he hates America and the idea of America. In that he’s working to “level the playing field” and in weakening America he’s going to bring horror to millions. e.g. Jimmy Carter.


10 posted on 10/13/2012 7:29:50 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: fella

They’re SA-2s from 1959.


11 posted on 10/13/2012 7:47:21 AM PDT by xone
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Watch for an Israeli low-level strike very soon.


12 posted on 10/13/2012 8:56:04 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (yup-Who knew??)
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To: xone
They’re SA-2s from 1959.

Still the most widely operational SAM in the world. Modernized up until the mid 90's and depending on the variant with a range of 66 km and a ceiling of 35,000 m they could wreck havoc with airline traffic if the islam-a-nazies decide to use them.

13 posted on 10/13/2012 10:12:51 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

They are radar dependent, fixed site intensive etc. Not a mobile system, and the ‘wrong people’ already have them, and they’ve never been used for those purposes. If you want to fear SAMs in the wrong hands, fear the man portable ones.


14 posted on 10/13/2012 10:23:30 AM PDT by xone
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