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by gouda on 26 November 2012 - 18:11
Will Israel reply with a nuke on Damascus?I hope not,but bieve it will happen.
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by gouda on 27 November 2012 - 11:11
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US-led NATO intervention begins in Syria war. Patriots in Turkey
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 27, 2012, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)Tags: Syrian rebels
radar & surveillance Israel Jordan Saudi Arabia NATO US Patriots Turkey
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Patriot anti-missile batteries for Turkey
Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Middle East military spotlight swung around from Gaza to the Syrian war with steps for the start of US and NATO intervention in that conflict. Without spelling this out, a game changer began unfolding when a joint Turkish-NATO team began making a site survey for the deployment of Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems, manned by American military teams. The team, said the statement from Ankara, will assess where to station the missiles and how many would be needed. It reiterated that the system is “for defensive purposes” and not for a “no-fly zone or offensive operations,” but just for use “against an air or missile threat from Syria.”
However, the Patriots in combination with already installed elements of the missile shield, will command an area beyond the Turkish-Syrian border - all of northern Syria up to and including the embattled towns of Aleppo and Homs, debkafile’s military sources report.
Their presence will impede the operations of Assad’s most effective and lethal means of war against the rebels in that region – air force bombardment.
The positioning of US anti-missile missiles in Turkey coincides with the rebels’ success in destroying the Assad regime’s key air and radar stations in southern Syria and along the Jordanian border. The two thrusts add up to a coordinated military effort in northern and southern Syria to seize control of the skies in both regions from Assad’s control and push his forces back into central Syria.
A part of the US-Turkish plan affects Israel. Monday, debkafile reported exclusively that in a resounding blow to Bashar Assad's ability to fight external enemies, Syrian rebels had destroyed the Assad regime’s most important electronic warning radar station facing Israel – M-1 – Monday, Nov. 26.
This Russian-built station monitored Israeli warplanes' takeoff and landing activities at air bases in the Negev and Hatzerim in the south and tracked them up to the Syrian border. The facility was designed to guide Syrian missiles targeting any point on the Israeli map, in sync with air defense facilities south of Damascus and on the Golan Heights. The radar’s range also covered naval movements in Mediterranean waters off the shores of Israel and Lebanon.
Western military sources told debkafile that the destruction of this vital facility has blinded the two eyes which Syrian air, air defense and missile forces had trained on Israel. It has therefore crippled, though not completely dismantled, Bashar Assad’s ability to got to war against Israel, Jordan or Saudi Arabia.
M-1 radar also swept all parts of Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia where the important Tabuk air base is situated. Deployed there in addition to the Saudi Air Force are French fighter-bombers ready to go to war against Syria.
M-1 also relayed current data on Israeli military movements to Hizballah and would have been a vital source of intelligence in a potential Lebanese Shiites offensive against the Jewish state.
The Syrian ruler and his spokesmen have frequently threatened since the eruption of the popular insurrection that if Assad had his back to the wall, the entire Middle East would go up in flames, especially Israel.
In the last two days, the Syrian rebels have made additional gains: They were able to capture areas abutting on the Jordanian border, excepting only the Ramtha border crossing. They also seized the Marj al-Sultan military air field southeast of Damascus and adjoining Syrian Army 4th Brigade bases.
Most of the men of the 82nd Infantry Brigade guarding M-1 were killed in the fighting, fled or were taken prisoner.
Our military sources notes that after M-1, the Assad regime still retains two key radar stations: M-2 in Shanshar south of Homs, which covers central and northern Syria; and M-3 near Latakia which keeps an eye on the northern region up to the Turkish border and the eastern Mediterranean up to Cyprus.
All three radar stations were linked to the Syrian general staff, air force, air defense, missile and navy operations rooms and fed them the essential real-time intelligence data needed for decision-making at the highest level. However, the loss of M-1 seriously hampers the Syria army’s capacity to take on Israel or Jordan.
by MKhalil on 29 November 2012 - 03:11
The war against Iraq drove most of christian people outside Iraq. The Civil war in Lebanon drove many christians outselde Lebanon. War now in Syria is driving Christians outside Syria, Wars in Palestine drove out Christians from Palestine. If there will be unrest in Jordan same will happen, can you tell me who was behind all this? If you really don't know it's the US and Israel.
Ibrahim
True, but the people in Syria who speak Armaic, the language of Prophet Isa (peace be upon him), did they survive Assad's massacres?
We know who has been killing and betraying our Prophets(may peace be upon them) from the beginning, and they won't quit any time soon. Allah knows best. The fact is majority of the human race wants peace and love, but the few in power don't want the same.
I just want peace at home with my new GSD puppy, and that will be a blessing.
by gouda on 29 November 2012 - 17:11
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Is Egypt about to become the new Iran?
By Con CoughlinLast updated: November 28th, 2012
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It is not only the anti-government protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square who should be concerned about President Mohammed Morsi's audacious power grab. Mr Morsi's claim at the weekend that "God's will and elections made me the captain of this ship" has echoes of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's claim during the 1979 Iranian revolution that his mission to overthrow the Shah enjoyed divine guidance.
Since his announcement that he was granting himself sweeping new powers, Mr Morsi has been trying to reassure sceptical Egyptian voters that he has no ambition to become Egypt's new Pharaoh. But you only have to look at the violent scenes that have once again erupted in Tahrir Square to see that the majority of Egyptians remain unconvinced.
When Egyptian demonstrators first occupied Tahrir Square last year to call for the overthrow of Mr Morsi's predecessor, President Hosni Mubarak, they were calling for a secular, democratic system of government that would represent the interests of all Egyptians, and not just the corrupt clique of presidential supporters. Similar sentiments were expressed by Iranian demonstrators during the build-up to the Shah's overthrow in February 1979 as they sought to remove a similarly corrupt regime.
But as we now know to our cost, the worthy aspirations of the Iranian masses were hijacked by Khomeini's hardline Islamist agenda, and within months of the Shah's overthrow Iran had been transformed into an Islamic republic.
Mr Morsi says he has no desire to become a dictator, but his announcement that, henceforth, all presidential decrees will be immune from legal challenge does not bode well for Egypt's transition from military dictatorship to democracy.
I am sure I am not the only one wondering whether Mr Morsi is about to become the new Ayatollah Khomeini.
Certainly, unless Mr Morsi backs down, all those who sacrificed their lives in the cause of the Egyptian revolution will have died in vain.
by gouda on 29 November 2012 - 17:11
Breaking News 18:53 Explosion heard in Golan Heights area; IDF investigating
Hamas: Israelis will flee in next war with us
11/29/2012 02:52
In the next war between Hamas and Israel, many Israelis will flee their country, Hamas’s Minister for Prisoners Affairs, Atallah Abu al-Sabah, said Thursday.
In an interview with a Palestinian TV station in the Gaza Strip, Sabah claimed that thousands of Israelis had fled to the North to escape from Hamas’s rockets and missiles.
“The era of Israeli victories has gone for good,” he said.
The Hamas official predicted that Israel would from now on rely on short-term wars “because it is not able to lead long-term wars of attrition.”
He also praised Arab and Islamic countries for supporting Hamas during the recent fighting by dispatching delegations to the Gaza Strip.
“Gaza has united the Arab nation and solidified its existence as a political entity,” the Hamas official added.
Sabah said that while “Palestinian fighters fought with a strong belief and high morale, the Israeli soldier fought with a defeatist spirit. The fabric of Israeli society has been torn apart in the face of the resistance’s strength.”
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was quoted Thursday as saying that “the resistance will soon occur in the West Bank too.”
Mashaal attributed the absence of “resistance” in the West Bank to “security pressure by all parties.” He said that although Hamas agreed to a cease-fire with Israel, this did not mean that the movement has relinquished the “resistance to achieve the liberation of Palestine
by Two Moons on 29 November 2012 - 19:11
by Hundmutter on 29 November 2012 - 20:11
by gouda on 29 November 2012 - 22:11
Psalms 5"11
But let all those that put their trust in THEE rejoice;Let them ever SHOUT for joy,because thou defendeth them;
let them also that love they name be joyful in thee.
Have a nice evening.
gouda
by gouda on 02 December 2012 - 15:12
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