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Syria sends forces to protect Hamas leader
2006-06-28
The Syrian government has deployed security forces to protect Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and has advised him to restrict all public activities for the time being, Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip told WorldNetDaily Tuesday. Mashaal has for years enjoyed the protection of the Syrian government. Israel accuses him of using bases in the country to order terror attacks and raise money for his terror group. According to Israeli security sources, Syria and Iran has been pressuring Mashaal against releasing Shalit. "Iran and Syria both want an escalation in the region to distract from the troubles surrounding their regimes," said a diplomatic source. "They want Israel to launch a ground operation. Violence helps them."



Posted by:Seafarious

#10  Syria sends forces to protect Hamas leader

Consider them iceing on the cake.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-06-28 16:02  

#9  Who knows we are playing Chess with some hot head Islamist that may play or may freak out and just throw the whole board on the floor. (even knowing full well in a fight we will beat them down unmercifully)

Iran. Syria. plus al Qaeda maneuvering under their cover.
Posted by: lotp   2006-06-28 15:26  

#8  Ass-hat is the epitome of a pencil-necked fool. Maybe the Air Force should program a Tomahawk to search just for that face. It would make a nice gesture, and the rest of Syria would consider old pencil-neck radioactive.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-06-28 15:06  

#7  ThatÂ’s their loss. Sounds like a job for a handful of those new shiny JDAMÂ’s we gave the Israelis. Boom splat and those Syrian Guards well collateral damage.

Syria and Iran may want to put the Israeli/Palestinian conflict back on page one instead of themselves BUT would they risk all out warfare with Israel? I donÂ’t know Iran may not worry so much about such but Baby Assad wouldnÂ’t last long and the wild card of would the US take that chaos as a opportunity to strike Iran?

http://www.vitalperspective.com/

Vital PerspectiveÂ’s is blogging the Gaza operation. And he just reported
“UPDATE 06/28 @ 13:18: BREAKING NEWS... An Israeli warplane flew over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's palace to warn Syria against supporting Palestinian terrorists who kidnapped an Israeli soldier, Israeli television stations are reporting. The overflight reportedly took place yesterday.
“

Who knows we are playing Chess with some hot head Islamist that may play or may freak out and just throw the whole board on the floor. (even knowing full well in a fight we will beat them down unmercifully)
Posted by: C-Low   2006-06-28 13:37  

#6  Tu do you think that Fredman would stoop to selecting out the head with the magic want and then doing a 99.5 size tranform each time the picture was used? That would be crazy.
Posted by: 6   2006-06-28 10:07  

#5  Does his head get even smaller everytime I see that picture, or do the general's heads get bigger?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-06-28 08:45  

#4  Yes, you must protect him, he is a national treasure.

By the way, I wouldnt stand too close to his car when he starts it.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-06-28 08:26  

#3  "Protect"
Posted by: mojo   2006-06-28 00:56  

#2  No surprise here - the WND article indics, AGAIN, that the terrorists are wilfully escalating the level of violence in the region in order to offset or disguise failure, weakness, schism, and defeat.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-06-28 00:52  

#1  I think the guy in the middle is really an agent of MIB. Question is...what quadrant of the galaxy does he monitor?
Posted by: smn   2006-06-28 00:33  

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