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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel to Assad: We Will Bomb Gaza, Whole of Lebanon if Tel Aviv Attacked
2011-10-08
[An Nahar] Israel has warned Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
 that should Tel Aviv be attacked, then it will retaliate by bombing the Gazoo Strip and the whole of Leb.

Israel's NFC website reported that the Jewish state's government relayed this message to the Syrian president through European intelligence circles.

These sources said that seeing as Tel Aviv is Israel's economic and financial hub, a retaliation for an attack against it, by Hizbullah, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, or Syria, will not be limited to Syria, but all of Leb and Gazoo.

NFC reported Israeli military circles as saying that the Jewish state's message to Assad "is clear in that Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
' fate, should it be targeted, will not be different than Leb's."

These revelations came in light of an Iranian report that Assad had warned that he would "set fire" to the Middle East if foreign forces launched a military strike on his country and would ask for Hizbullah's help to attack Israel.

An Arab source told Iran's Fars news Agency that Assad made the warning to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during his visit to Damascus.

"If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv," the Syrian president said.

On Thursday, an official source at the Syrian Foreign Ministry denied these reports, adding that "no messages were conveyed from or to anyone during the meeting."

The Iranian news agency did not indicate the date of the meeting between the two officials.

Posted by:Fred

#16  Why not threaten someone pencilneck actually cares about?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-10-08 23:24  

#15  it would require cooling water to carry away the heat of hydration if poured quickly. If poured slowly, it would get its' own GPS coordinate
Posted by: Frank G   2011-10-08 22:37  

#14  A 60+ ft perimeter of solid concrete is a helluva lot of concrete. Not many places that it would be practical to build, where it will require such resources.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2011-10-08 22:34  

#13  My bad, 20 meters is only 65 FEET. I am not sure that extra foot would matter all that much.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-10-08 18:36  

#12  Besides, 20 meters translates to 66 FEET of poured concrete. And if it is not properly reinforced with rebar, it has a major problem with structural failure and collapse when subjected to an internal blast wave. Besides which, it is a bear to work with that much concrete, and avoid bubbles and voids in what you have poured.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-10-08 18:33  

#11  Even if the concrete is 21 meters thick, if the penetrator reaches 20 meters before exploding, you do not want to be in the bunker. There is an effect known as spalling, which means sharp fast-moving pieces of the concrete are blasted loose from the INSIDE section of the bunker, and then bounce around until they hit something soft and stick in it; or pulverize from impact.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-10-08 18:29  

#10  Believe they did this for the Palace bunker in Baghdad in 2003. Granted it was pointless to bomb it in the first place since Saddam wasn't there but they still did one then another strategy.
Posted by: Charles   2011-10-08 16:18  

#9  even if a single bomb doesn't actually penetrate, it displaces concrete, and creates pressure that has to go somewhere. You would not likely leave that bunker upright and in one piece with your senses intact
Posted by: Frank G   2011-10-08 13:22  

#8   "...penetrate 20 meters of concrete."

So drop *another* bomb. Or two. Anything worth blowing up is worth blowing up real good.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-10-08 13:15  

#7  Are you sure the bunker-busters will penetrate only 20 meters of concrete, DF?

Oh, I know that's what they say ....
Posted by: Barbara   2011-10-08 12:46  

#6  "...penetrate 20 meters of concrete."

I'm no military expert expert, but can't the bad guys simply make the bunkers 21+ feet thick?
Posted by: Durnham Freebody   2011-10-08 12:20  

#5  HMMM, NOW where to? DROP them?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-10-08 11:18  

#4  The Israelis always think before issuing threats, so though this message is directed at Assad, it isn't aimed to persuade him of anything. Instead it is to let Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Lebanese government know that attacks on Tel Aviv mean that *they* are going to be pounded so hard that they will not ever forget it.

Importantly what is backing up this plan is that the US is accelerating shipment to Israel of 5,000 smart bombs, including 500 penetrating “bunker buster” bombs (BLU-109)(2,000 pound).

The rest of the deal are 2,500-909 kg (2,000 pound) bombs, a thousand 455 kg (1,000 pound) bombs and 500-227 kg (500 pound) bombs.

Israel already has several hundred of the GBU-24 (Paveway III, 2,000 pound) penetrators, and a hundred of the larger (2.5 ton) GBU-28s. This bomb can penetrate 32 meters (100 feet) of earth, or six meters (20 feet) of concrete. The lighter GBU-24 can manage less than half that.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-10-08 09:06  

#3  Assad had warned that he would "set fire" to the Middle East

He says it like that is a bad thing.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-10-08 08:23  

#2  OOOOPSIES, forgot SAME > ISRAEL WARNED [by US = Leon Panetta] OVER LONE STRIKE AGZ IRAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-10-08 00:29  

#1  ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [WND.com = long] NATO PREPS FOR NEW WAR, SYRIAN CHIEF WARNS ATTACK [NATO milstrike agz Syria] WILL SET MIDDLE EAST AFLAME.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-10-08 00:25  

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