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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Pencilneck shot by bodyguard??
2013-03-25
Arab Report: Assad assassinated

Arab media reported the assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad. On - reportedly not yet been validated and have not yet received echo Western media, Assad fired one of his bodyguards.

This is an Iranian officer named Mehdi Jacoby, who was attached to Assad on - by allies of the Syrian president in Tehran.

Various reports published that Assad al-Shami was rushed to the hospital and in serious condition. Also reported the big fuss that has developed around the hospital and that all roads leading to the hospital were blocked - by the Syrian army. Also reported large military forces are in the hospital.

Syrian television broadcasts were discontinued. Syria apparently inhibits the official report on the assassination until it became clear whether the president would live or die.

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Arab media sources confirmed press reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was on Saturday evening for serious injury after suffering a shots fired by a member of his personal guard.

The sources said that President Assad was transferred to Shami Hospital in Damascus, suffering from wounds and described it as very serious, and he is fighting for his life there, while the Syrian army has closed all roads leading to the hospital. Even the meantime there has been no official statement by the system, while sources close to him denied what was in the news altogether, noting that the president was in good health and high spirits, and will deliver a keynote speech in the coming days.
Posted by:Steve White

#16  Ouch, Injun Stalin7884
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-03-25 22:56  

#15  I suppose with that line of thinking we should be looking for next Tamerlain, protector of the faith of Islam to come to town and butcher an entire city as he did with Baghdad...something like a million killed...four pyramids 50 feet high of head?

I think we are really seeing the true nature of Islam. They will continue to look backward and continue to kill each other until it reaches some absurdity, like Tamerlain.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2013-03-25 22:45  

#14  New nym, same dribble, gets old.
Posted by: Injun Stalin7884   2013-03-25 20:10  

#13  I'm praying Assad live long and prosper...such a lovely war! If we didn't have him, we'd have to invent him! We need more of him to control Allah's hell spawn and by golly, Satan is ready with the supply! Fact is, O'Bummer is doing pretty good too with supplying the other side...We keep hearing of Medieval rivers of blood during cities getting sacked...remember unk Rifaat Assad and his 80,000 'slime brothers slain in Hama in the eighties?
Well, Bashir will do better than his uncle ten times over...times are good...now where O'bummer
is gonna start another one for us?
Posted by: Pliny the Cheap6130   2013-03-25 19:54  

#12  So you want Iranian influence in Syria, or just run of the mill al Qaeda?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-03-24 23:58  

#11  another link
Posted by: Water Modem   2013-03-24 21:51  

#10  Assassination attempt on Assad?

Good thing he has bodyguards to protect him.

Oh, wait.... :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2013-03-24 21:43  

#9  If it's true Fred and I are breaking out a 30 year old bottle of port...
Posted by: Steve White   2013-03-24 20:38  

#8  Incident remains unconfirmed.

As forr IRAN, what doth MEMRI.ORG sayeth > IRANIAN OFFICIAL [Mehdi Taeb]: LOSS OF SYRIA WILL LEAD TO LOSS OF TEHRAN ITSELF, SYRIA IS AN IRANIAN PROVINCE OF IRAN, IRAN HAS FORMED 60,000-STRONG SYRIAN BASILJ, ISRAEL IS OUR ONLY THREAT.

The highly controversial Taeb's statements is repor causing a serious brouhaha amongst Iranian Clerics + Pundits, espec as per his "Syria" claims.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-03-24 19:35  

#7  M&Ms??? Might have to get the wife to make another batch of Chocalate truffles (rum, rasberry, peppermint, the lot)
Posted by: AlanC   2013-03-24 18:41  

#6  An Iranian?

NOW this is getting very interesting.

Pass the popcorn and the M&M's.

The Russians are gathering influence to put a BIG fence around this mess. They've been in it up to their neck with Islamists for years and between Afghanistan and Chechnya, they don't want it to metastize.

Perhaps Putin has put on his big boy pants and decided to act globally with the jihad BS.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2013-03-24 17:42  

#5  Nah, just add stuff onto the popcorn. One of my favorites is to throw in M&M's.
Posted by: Charles   2013-03-24 17:13  

#4  lord garth, put this together with the "What Russia wants in Cyprus" post check out the geography and the consequences are limitless.

So, Russia takes over Greek Cyprus and Syria via Iran and Turkey does what?

Oy, this might get too big for pop corn.
Posted by: AlanC   2013-03-24 16:37  

#3  If true, the REAL civil war and genocidal butchery will soon begin. Of course Assad was the ....."problem" so it will be interesting how the administration twists this one.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-03-24 16:35  

#2  the Iranians are already calling a lot of the shots with the Russians calling a few also
Posted by: lord garth   2013-03-24 16:20  

#1  If this is true does it give the Iranians an opening to take over?
Posted by: AlanC   2013-03-24 15:26  

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