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Israel strikes Syria, says targeting Hezbollah arms (latest report at the moment) - Video
Reuters ^
| Sun May 5, 2013 2:28pm EDT
| By Dominic Evans and Oliver Holmes
Posted on 05/05/2013 12:07:47 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Reuters) - Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.
As Syria's two-year-old civil war veered into the potentially atomic arena of Iran's confrontation with Israel and the West over its nuclear program, people were woken in the Syrian capital by explosions that shook the ground like an earthquake and sent pillars of flame high into the night sky.
"Night turned into day," one man told Reuters from his home at Hameh, near one of the targets, the Jamraya military base.
But for all the angry rhetoric in response from Tehran and from the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it was unclear whether the second such raid in 48 hours would elicit any greater reaction than an Israeli attack in the same area in January, which was followed by little evident change.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; jordan; lebanon; russia; syria; turkey; waronterror
To: SJackson; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; SunkenCiv; onyx
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:10:06 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:13:59 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:14:57 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: All
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:15:10 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
-——Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah-——
I have thought about this most of the day and concluded:
Hezbollah bound missiles = Bengazi video Islamic slur
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:21:01 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
To: bert
I don’t buy it; I think a chemical weapons dump was hit
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:28:41 PM PDT
by
harwood
(Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
To: harwood
I dont buy it; I think a chemical weapons dump was hitDo you mean the WMD's that didn't exist that Sadam gave the Syrian's i.e. the clown gas, not the really nasty stuff the Spetnaz' took back to Russia? Nah move along here....
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:32:13 PM PDT
by
taildragger
(( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
To: taildragger
Lots of chatter on the jihadi sites about foul odors and and such for miles around
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:34:51 PM PDT
by
harwood
(Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
To: harwood
In the case of biological/chemical agents, you can't just destroy them with high explosives. That just spreads them around.
You need something like an FAE (fuel air explosive)which basically incinerates the stuff.
From the vids, that big blast sure looks like a FAE to me.
But then it could be a secondary.
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:45:10 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Russian arms manufactures are making out well these days.
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:45:45 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Galt level is not far away......)
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posted on
05/05/2013 12:57:07 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: harwood
I dont buy it; I think a chemical weapons dump was hit
No doubt the some of the missiles were configured for chem/bio warheads
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posted on
05/05/2013 1:28:11 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One day soon the Israeli’s will have to stop Iran from sending weapons and missiles to Syria and other countries by taking out Iran.
May they hit Ahmadinnerjacket first and his head Imam second.
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posted on
05/05/2013 1:35:57 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: no-to-illegals
Lenghty and excellent.
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posted on
05/05/2013 2:07:49 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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