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2011-08-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turkey: We Didn't Give Syria Grace Period, Assaults Must Stop Immediately

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 See also WAFF > TURKEY ISSUES "FINAL WORD" TO SYRIA.

ARTIC = Syrian President Bashar Assad's military operations agz his own people must cease, IMMEDIATELY + UNCONDITIONALLY, OR ELSE IIUC TURKEY WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FOLLOW-ON STEPS THAT OCCUR, BE IT UNILATERAL OR INTERNATIONAL, ECON OR MILITARY, ......@ETC.

* SAME > IRAN USING PKK [+ PJAK] TO TRAP [entrap/ensnare] TURKEY.

ARTIC = IRAN believes ...
> Iff Assad regime in Syria falls, the next target for the "Arab Spring" will be TEHRAN = IRAN ITSELF.
> Islamist Iran desires convenient strategic access to the Mediterranean, HENCE DESIRES TO ISOLATE TURKEY FROM THE US-EUROS.

Iran = better to fight the US-Israel-Allied
"over there" AMAP ASAP ALAP, than "over here"???

* SAME > [American Thinker] IRAN'S [ + ME's]QUIET WAR.

ARTIC = POTUS Obama's policy of PRETENDING? thatIran is not going to its future Military Capabilities agz Israel + US is FOOLISH. IRAN'S WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAS ALREADY STARTED.

IIUC, except that the USA = POTUS BAMMER + Admin don't know it yet???

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [GlobalResearch] NATO + TURKEY PLAN TO SUPPORT ARMED REBELS IN SYRIA, CAMPAIGN [start Separatist = anti-Assad Jihad].

Doing a LIBYA = LIBYUH???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-16 01:23|| 2011-08-16 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 ...The Turks have a well equipped and thoroughly professional military - but after the very real purges that have swept through it, their leadership is now probably on a par with that of Iran: picked for political and religious reliability instead of military skill. Makes me wonder if Erdogan figures that if he gets into a war with Syria and screws it up, we have to come bail him out...he's in for a real surprise on that account.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-08-16 08:41|| 2011-08-16 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Mike, more likely he hasn't a clue that professional leadership is needed for a professional military outcome.

Posted by lotp 2011-08-16 20:39|| 2011-08-16 20:39|| Front Page Top

#4 More ...

* WAFF > [Foreign Ministry] TURKEY SAYS "TIMES FOR WORDS IS OVER" UNLESS SYRIA ATTACKS END.

* SAME > BRACE FOR ANOTHER MIDDLE EAST WAR. FIRST LIBYA, NOW ANOTHER SOURCES SAY NEXT COUNTRY [Syria] WARNED OF NATO ATTACK.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Defector from Syria's Secret Police] SYRIA USING IRAN SNIPERS AS VIOLENT CRACKDOWN CONTINUES | IRANIAN SNIPERS REPORTEDLY BEING DEPLOYED IN SYRIA.

versus

* FREEREPUBLIC > [WND.com] "NETANYAHU SHOULD PREPARE HIMSELF FOR THE CAGE"! IRAN WARNS ISRAELIS THEY SHOULD FLEE [leave the Middle East] OR FACE ANNIHILATION.

Supreme Ayatollah Khamenei + IRGC = denote that Israel = Israelis in "occupied lands" is encircled/surrounded by dedicated Muslims bent on their destruction.

[LITTLE BIG HORN, ISANDHLWANA Battles here].

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NUCLEAR WAR ON IRAN? | CUBA'S FIDEL CASTRO: NUCLEAR SAGE OR SIREN?

Various factors, still-developing circumstances may prove ultimately Uncle Fidel correct in his warning that any US-Israeli attack agz Iran may devol into a de facto NUCLEAR WAR.

[BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR, NOSTRADAMUS = "...UNTIL THE SEVEN/SEVENTH HOLDS THE LINE" here].

DECISIVE = Islamic "HEAVENLY" BATTLE.

* SAME > [Bloomberg] ISRAEL-LEBANON OIL DISPUTE [maritime borders]SHOULD BE STOPPED SHORT OF WAR: VIEW.

Steadily escalating risk of Israeli-Lebanon [Hezbollah] military confrontation oer offshore energy fields.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-16 22:16|| 2011-08-16 22:16|| Front Page Top

#5 lots of 'warnings' to Syria flying around.

Got a feeling something will happen.

Posted by phil_b 2011-08-16 23:04|| 2011-08-16 23:04|| Front Page Top

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