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2004-04-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Security Forces Clash With "terrorist Band"
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Posted by Steve 2004-04-27 4:38:01 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 sounds like "freedom fighters", right, al-jizz?
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-27 5:38:26 PM||   2004-04-27 5:38:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 
Syria has not seen such violence in years.
Normally it's a export product
ROFL! You nailed it, Steve.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-04-27 6:30:39 PM||   2004-04-27 6:30:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is making little sense... I'm wondering if the Kurds got loose.
Posted by Shipman 2004-04-27 8:03:07 PM||   2004-04-27 8:03:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 this does make little sense...unless it distracts from the latest problems in jordan coming from Syria. "Look we are fighting terrorists too, not just exporting them"
Posted by scott  2004-04-27 8:34:29 PM||   2004-04-27 8:34:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree! Small boom at empty UN building. Very fishy. Next step is Kurds get blamed.
Posted by Phil B  2004-04-27 8:41:26 PM||   2004-04-27 8:41:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 If the official mouthpiece of the Syrian regime calls them terrorists, perhaps they are freedom fighters.

I'd be very surprised if jihadis are actually turning against the Syrian regime. I guess I can't say "shocked" though, since timing doesn't seem to be in their vocabulary.
Posted by eLarson 2004-04-27 8:45:15 PM||   2004-04-27 8:45:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Wonder if it is Kurdish rebels, being helped very quietly by their cousins to the northeast. Kurds got beat on recently in Syria, and I think the Kurds are world-class grudge-nursers.

Hmmm, Kurdish Syria and Kurdish Iraq, free and semi-independent. A natural for each other. Hmmmm.
Posted by Steve White  2004-04-27 9:51:12 PM||   2004-04-27 9:51:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 One witness said four gunmen came out of a white van on the main Mazza Boulevard in front of the Canadian Embassy and started shooting indiscriminately.

'FBI analyst': Ah, a white van, it was obviously the work of four white male loners... all working together...proabably got their weapons from a gun show in Damascus....

/satire
Posted by Pappy 2004-04-27 11:42:58 PM||   2004-04-27 11:42:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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