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Syria: Beginning of the End for Assad?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Nov 13, 2011.

  1. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    We need to send George W. Bush to avenge his daddy. Oh wait.
     
  2. Deeper_Background

    Deeper_Background Active Member

    Assad’s top four men killed by hidden bomb. Urgent consultations in Washington, Jerusalem
    July 18, 2012, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00) A bomb hits Assad's inner circle The elimination of Bashar Assad’s top security tier, leaders of his brutal campaign of suppression against the Syrian uprising sent shock waves reverberating across the Middle East where armies have gone on high alert. It now transpires that their deaths were not caused by a suicide bomber but a 40-kilogram bomb hidden in Syria ministers’ conference room at the heavily fortified National Security building, which killed at least four of the eight top officials present: Assad’s brother-in-law Security Chief Assif Shawqat, Defense minister Gen. Dawoud Raijiha, Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ibrahim Shaar and ice-Presidential aide and former defense minister Gen. Hasan Turkmani. The last two died of their wounds.

    US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented: “The violence in Syria is rapidly spinning out of control.” Emergency consultations are taking place at the White House, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the State Department to try and assess how the Syrian crisis will develop and above all Assad’s response to the almost knock-out blow his inner circle has sustained.

    Bashar Assad’s survival is in serious question after the deaths of his top allies, the deadliest blow to his regime in the 17-month Syrian uprising, striking deep inside the president’s inner circle and family: Shawqat was married to his sister. It took place on the fourth day of fierce fights with rebel forces which seized parts of Damascus and are battling superior government forces backed by heavy tank, artillery and machine gun fire and helicopters.
    http://www.debka.com/article/22187/Assad’s-top-four-men-killed-by-hidden-bomb-Urgent-consultations-in-Washington-Jerusalem
     
  3. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Assad is a real-life Walter White.
     
  4. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    BBC reporting that Assad has left Damascus.
     
  5. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Sky News reporting he will sign with Man U.
     
  6. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Sky Sports reporting he has pulled his hamstring in camp.
     
  7. Deeper_Background

    Deeper_Background Active Member

    Military sources report that alongside the US satellites and drone aircraft monitoring the chemical and biological weapons stores, small American reconnaissance teams are already on the ground, marking out landing sites and setting up bridgeheads for the incoming US, British and French special forces.
    Some - though not all - of the targeted stockpiles of shells and missile warheads are located around centers of the fiercest fighting in Syria’s civil war such as Aleppo in the north. They may be inadequately guarded since the Syrian ruler may have been forced to throw the units securing them into battle against rebel forces.
    US C130 transports stand ready at Middle East air bases to fly into Syria. Western intelligence sources reported Thursday, Aug. 23 that those units are on standby at bases in Israel and Jordan. Their assignments are to engage Syrian troops attempting to move those unconventional weapons systems to battle fronts or Hizballah and to prevent them falling into the hands of radical Islamic rebel fighters, especially Al Qaeda.
    Those elite units have been issued with special equipment for chemical and biological warfare including anti-contamination suits. The transports are also fitted with purification equipment for operating in polluted terrain.
    These plans followed President Barack Obama’s warning Monday, Aug. 20 that "we cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people." He announced, "We have put together a range of contingency plans.”

    Also on standby for stealthy raids into Syria are British special operations forces in Cyprus and French units trained in unconventional warfare in Jordan. Thursday morning, President Obama talked by phone to British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande to wrap up the details of their combined operation in Syria, effectively the onset of direct Western intervention in the Syrian conflict.

    http://www.debka.com/article/22296/US-UK-French-elite-units-on-standby-for-seizing-Syrian-chemical-weapons
     
  8. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    TEH DEBKA !!!
     
  9. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Good thing that the Syrians don't read SportsJournalists.com or they would be alerted to the secret mission.
     
  10. Deeper_Background

    Deeper_Background Active Member

    Israel recently passed information to Washington that Iran had already developed a radioactive (dirty) bomb. In the last few weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Salman launched negotiations with Tehran on a non-aggression pact and other understandings covering bilateral cooperation behind America’s back on such issues as Syria.


    In the five weeks remaining before the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and China will be moving forward vigorously toward their strategic, military and nuclear goals, while the US and Israel will be stuck in the doldrums of their interminable argument over who goes first against Iran – if at all. http://www.debka.com/article/22305/Morsi-to-shop-for-nuclear-capable-missiles-in-Beijing-en-route-for-Tehran-Netanyahu-Obama-meet-Sept-27
     
  11. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Even if your link was 100 percent accurate, which of course, it isn't, I don't see the word "Syria" contained anywhere within it.
     
  12. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    When you run "Debka" through Babelfish, it spits out "TMZ".
     
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