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| Debka (salt alert): Damascus will attack Israel shortly |
| 2008-02-16 |
| Syria vows to strike back at Israel for Imad Mughniyeh's killing in Damascus and "repeated encroachments" DEBKAfile's military sources report: Thursday night, Feb. 14, Syrian officials fanned out among Arab broadcasting stations with a warning: Damascus will attack Israel shortly following a decision by Syrian leaders to end its policy of restraint against its territorial violations. Israeli land, sea, air and homeland defense units were earlier ordered to prepare to defend the country's northern borders against attacks by Hizballah, including rocket strikes, and Syria. Reinforcements were rushed to the north. Israel has received a stream of intelligence confirmations that Iran, Syria and Hizballah have determined not to let Mughniyeh's death pass without an immediate response. They are working together to mount a revenge operation. Western sources watching the funeral of the Hizballah commander Imad Mughniyeh earlier Thursday noted the absence of Hizballah's entire command echelon and the Revolutionary Guards officers serving at Iran's Beirut embassy. They were assumed to have gone to ground to plan a combined offensive against Israel whom they accuse of the Mughniyeh killing. Hassan Nasrallah's threats ('If Israel wants open war, so bit.") were broadcast by video DEBKAfile's intelligence sources note that the way Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki stood at Thursday's Beirut funeral between Hizballah's Dep. Sec. Gen Naim Qassem and the slain terrorist's father and accepted condolences, confirmed Mughniyeh's high-value role in Tehran's foreign terror system. It also informed the thousands of Shiite mourners that Iran will be part of prospective retaliation for his death against Israel. Iran and Syria have also linked their probes to find out how a hit-team penetrated the heavy security surrounding Imad Mughniyeh in an upscale Damascus neighborhood, planted a bomb in his SUV and detonated it by remote control. Since Wednesday night, according to our sources, a visiting Iranian team of investigators has been hard at work in the Syrian capital to identify the Mughniyeh's killers. It is headed by Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, commander of the al Qods Brigades, the Revolutionary Guards foreign terror arm. Its other members are Adm. Mohammad Fadavi, Dep. Commander of the IRGC Navy, who set up the near-clash between Iranian speedboats and US warships in the Strait of Hormuz in January; and Gen. Morteza Rezai, former chief of the IRGC intelligence branch. They are working with the Syrian team led by acting interior minister Gen. Bassam Abdul Majid. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #7 bigjim-ky, exactly who do you think we'll be waving the white flag to??? With America turning inward toward it's own betterments and conditions, you have nothing to worry about with your nearly 400 million brothers and sisters 'watching our fate (remember how we came together after Pearl Harbor, the Iranian Hostage incident of the 80's, and 9/11)!! Or are you afraid of a fat wallet and people going about their business of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Should Syria, Hizbullah, or Iran attempt to invade or otherwise 'step on' the US...I'll be the guy next to your side covering your back. Your not heavy!! |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-16 22:42 |
| #6 Was that over the top? I can never tell. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-16 18:32 |
| #5 Ellison's wife Betsy Ross-Jackson would be busy sewing the white flag for us to rally around. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-16 18:32 |
| #4 where would Secretary of State Keith Ellison stand on that? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-16 16:09 |
| #3 Obama would? Do you think his friends and advisers would approve, smn? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-02-16 15:43 |
| #2 g(r)omgoru; they're going to kill each other whether we're there or not. Why stand in the way of a bullet meant between two neighbors? Obama would let Israel settle the score (with support [logistics, armament etc.]) if needed, put the US's troops on the border; beef up the FBI, and train the billions in savings at building and improving the infrastructure of America. Sounds good to me! |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-16 15:19 |
| #1 By endorsing a Democratic candidate? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-02-16 11:38 |