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Syria blasts at Mezzeh military airport 'not Israeli strikes'
bbc ^

Posted on 09/01/2018 10:48:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Syria has denied reports that a series of blasts at a military airport near Damascus on Sunday were from Israeli air strikes, state media say.

The loud blasts, reported at the Mezzeh airport, were caused by an explosion at a munitions dump, Sana news agency said, citing Syrian military sources.

The incident was the result of an electrical fault, the agency added.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airport; blasts; djibouti; eritrea; hamas; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; israel; jerusalem; jordan; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; russia; sudan; syria; waronterror; yemen

1 posted on 09/01/2018 10:48:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

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https://twitter.com/Dalatrm/status/1036018630021001216
“e fireball lights the immediate horizon. Quite the dramatic close up from a panicking #Damascus residents shows the few first of the hundreds of the secondary blasts following #Mazzeh Airbase “strike”. A massive fireball lights the immediate horizon.”


2 posted on 09/01/2018 11:00:46 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Not a Mossad Ops, Please move on...


3 posted on 09/01/2018 11:29:32 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Dassom big booms bubby!

Never play with matches around an ammo dump! First lesson in safety in the military besides keep your safety on your weapon and never look down the barrel of your gun.


4 posted on 09/01/2018 11:59:38 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BenLurkin

“What hump?”


5 posted on 09/02/2018 12:25:32 AM PDT by nickedknack
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Either a short-circuit or perhaps somehow espionage but I’ve seen no evidence of an Israeli airstrike.


6 posted on 09/02/2018 3:34:29 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

Listen to Amir’s reporting.


7 posted on 09/02/2018 4:30:49 AM PDT by FES0844
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