...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
quotes high-ranking Syrian military official as saying alleged Israeli strike in Damascus
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
killed dozens of soldiers, hit Republican Guard bases, long-range missiles storehouses
A day after the latest alleged Israeli strike in Damascus, the New York Times revealed additional details on the targets of the attack.
The attack struck several critical military facilities in some of Syria's most tightly secured and strategic areas, killing dozens of elite troops stationed near the presidential palace, a high-ranking Syrian military official told the newspaper.
Rebels, opposition activists and residents said the strikes hit bases of the elite Republican Guard and storehouses of long-range missiles, in addition to a military research center that American officials have called the country's main chemical weapons facility, the report said.
An American official said a more limited strike early Friday at Damascus International Airport was also meant to destroy weapons being sent from Iran to Hezbollah.
A doctor at the military's Tishreen Hospital said Monday that there were at least 100 dead soldiers and many dozens more maimed, according to the New York Times.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, Harrigan had lost the feeling in his legs from the cold.
I told 'em they'd never take me alive,he thought.
I was right!...
Republican Senator
John MaverickMcCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former
foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
said that Syria's air defense system is not as daunting as described by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey. "The Israelis seem to be able to penetrate it fairly easily," he said on "Fox News Sunday. "