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Israeli Warplanes Strike Inside Syria for Fifth Time This Year
ABC News ^ | Oct. 31, 2013 | LUIS MARTINEZ and JOSH MARGOLIN

Posted on 10/31/2013 3:58:48 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

Israeli warplanes conducted an airstrike early today on a Syrian military facility near the northern Syrian port city of Latakia along the Mediterranean coast, a U.S. official confirms to ABC News.

The attack is believed to be the fifth airstrike conducted by Israel inside Syria this year. Like the earlier airstrikes, the official said the latest attack presumably targeted advanced Russian missile weapons systems headed to the extremist group Hezbollah based in Lebanon.

An Israeli source also confirmed the attack to ABC News which like the four previous attacks this year has not been acknowledged by the Israeli government.

The air strike was first reported in Israeli newspapers which cited explosions at a missile storage facility near Latakia. The accounts differed as to what types of air defense missile systems may have been targeted by Israeli warplanes.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; lebanon; russia; syria; syriawar; waronterror

1 posted on 10/31/2013 3:58:48 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Shalom!


3 posted on 10/31/2013 4:10:02 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Mazel Tov!


4 posted on 10/31/2013 4:18:58 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Pan_Yan

Leaders of the free world, they are.


5 posted on 10/31/2013 5:54:56 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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Thanks Pan_Yan.
The attack is believed to be the fifth airstrike conducted by Israel inside Syria this year... like the four previous attacks this year has not been acknowledged by the Israeli government. The air strike was first reported in Israeli newspapers which cited explosions at a missile storage facility near Latakia. The accounts differed as to what types of air defense missile systems may have been targeted by Israeli warplanes.
Types? The Russian kind.


6 posted on 10/31/2013 6:34:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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So the Russians are giving advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria. The rebels don’t have any planes. Obama and Company aren’t going in because Putin stole their lunch money. So are the missiles strictly to protect the Assad regime from Israel or was the IDF bombing something much more important?

There’s a lot of puzzle pieces that don’t fit together.


7 posted on 10/31/2013 7:10:26 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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The missiles are for Assad to give to Hizb-allah to take to Lebanon. KGB Putin is continuing the Soviet Union’s foreign policy of support for terrorist organizations. Putin hates Israel because they are America’s ally and he wants revenge for America’s Cold War defeat of the EVIL EMPIRE. Putin is a genocidal mass-murderer and terrorist.


8 posted on 10/31/2013 8:26:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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9 posted on 11/01/2013 8:44:21 AM PDT by SJackson (if you want to test a manÂ’s character, give him power A Lincoln)
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A Nation’s Gotta Do What a Nation’s Gotta Do, IMO.


10 posted on 11/01/2013 9:05:31 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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