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2013-07-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria's Famed Crusader Fort Hit in Air Raid
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Posted by Fred 2013-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top
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#1 It's OK---it isn't like it was something important (like a mosque).
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-14 03:47||   2013-07-14 03:47|| Front Page Top

#2 The raids came after rebels apparently using the Krak des Chevaliers as a base attacked an Alawite village called Qumayri, killing several people, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.

These Sunni rebels are real pieces of work. Assad really needs to get going with the task of convincing Sunnis to relocate to neighboring states, or Syria will run out of antiquities for these people to destroy.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-07-14 08:13||   2013-07-14 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonderful, did you have to do EXACTLY what they wanted Assad?
Posted by Charles 2013-07-14 08:15||   2013-07-14 08:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Sooner they get rid of the antiquities, the less reason there is against turning it all into a glassy parking lot.
Posted by Pappy 2013-07-14 09:18||   2013-07-14 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Wonderful, did you have to do EXACTLY what they wanted Assad?

We have state of the art gear, and we still flattened any Iraqi antiquities used as firing points by Iraqi insurgents. Relatively-speaking, Assad's using Flintstone-era equipment against the insurgents. He can't let them operate from the fortress with impunity. He doesn't have the technical ability to do surgical strikes.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-07-14 10:45||   2013-07-14 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Monte Cassino Abbey comes to mind.
Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-14 11:15||   2013-07-14 11:15|| Front Page Top

#7 The Knights Templar aren't going to give back the cleaning deposit after that...
Posted by ed in texas 2013-07-14 13:35||   2013-07-14 13:35|| Front Page Top

#8 
Wonderful, did you have to do EXACTLY what they wanted Assad?


*shrug* They violated the laws of war; this is their fault, not Assads.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-07-14 15:53||   2013-07-14 15:53|| Front Page Top

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