I vow to be more mindful in the future.
Debka is the name of an Israeli folk dance. The site comes from Israel, and seems to run the leavings of Israeli intelligence. Some of their items are stuff that was new yesterday, and hence, though true, is no longer vital, and so gets passed on to Debka. Some of it is stuff that an intelligence officer said, "Why are you putting this crap on my desk? Give it to Debka!" There is also a steady tone of marginally anti-American doomsaying. In the big picture, Debka supports the United States, thought 9/11 was terrorism, etc., etc. But in virtually every specific case, it takes the view that Americans are dumb cattle who don't know what they're doing. I assume this attitude is compounded from 1) the desire for sensationalist copy 2) Israeli arrogance--more common before the intafadas than now, but still sometimes surfacing: only we understand the region, only we know how to fight, and so forth and so on.
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Once again, DEBKA is shown to be strictly a source of bovine excrement. Both Syrian and U.S. forces agree that the bus was hit while RETURNING to Syria from Iraq and NOT traveling to Iraq. This was just an "aw shucks", fog of war, accident, nothing more.
DEBKA is the single most unreliable source of "intelligence" on the internet and their stories should NEVER see the light of day anywhere, much less be posted to FR.
--Boot Hill