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2007-09-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Hopefully the Syrrians are 'spooked' enough to tell the Norks to take a hike. That 6 day war, and the 73' icing revisit, must have really ??? the psyche of Baby Assad and his 'circus tent'. They're also still puzzled as hell over that emp 'dampening field' that blanketed the region, and until that's resolved by the Ruskies, The Syrians can only wait for their regional big bro to finish their uranium projects for some real whoop a** to muster Israel!

Posted by smn 2007-09-25 00:55|| 2007-09-25 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 One thing I can say for Muzzies---they sure know their audience!

Posted by gromgoru 2007-09-25 00:56|| 2007-09-25 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The officials in question told Reuters that Damascus had been cautious about responding to the alleged IAF attack because of Israel's military superiority and the fact that other Arab nations "did not support Syria."

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-25 04:43|| 2007-09-25 04:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Moud's claim of no gays in Iran during his speech at Columbia is likely to have Hollywood + so-called Gay Mafias, ........@etal. in a uproar.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-25 05:21|| 2007-09-25 05:21|| Front Page Top

#5 One thing I can say for Muzzies---they sure know their audience!

I would have thought that it was impossible.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-25 07:03|| 2007-09-25 07:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Aw, shucks! And they were soooo close to burying the hatchet.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-09-25 07:38|| 2007-09-25 07:38|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL bigjim. Missed it by that much...

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-09-25 08:30|| 2007-09-25 08:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, it is always the fault of the jooooos anyway. They just won't allow themselves to be genocided off again. Damn them.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-09-25 09:20|| 2007-09-25 09:20|| Front Page Top

#9 smn, Are you dead set on the idea that Israel used a tactical on Syria?

Posted by Mike N. 2007-09-25 09:38|| 2007-09-25 09:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Not as if there was any chance in the first place but what does that matter?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-25 10:02|| 2007-09-25 10:02|| Front Page Top

#11 It's not at all clear why the Russian air defense radars stayed dark (assuming they did). EMP is pretty unlikely for several technical reasons, not the least of which is that there is no evidence that other electronics in Syria were fried.

Note that electromagnetic pulse is an event, unlike the extended phenomenon smn posits as a 'dampening field'.

As a total speculation, an air-based laser system might be have been used to blind or damage the air radars in Syria. Such systems, if they exist and were used, would leave other systems in Syria intact. The Israelis have expertise in tactical lasers. We've got some good operational testing results from airborne lasers (abeit on larger airframes than the F15I).

Posted by lotp 2007-09-25 10:25|| 2007-09-25 10:25|| Front Page Top

#12 More like, "ruined chances for Baby Assad to throw some serious firepower at our boys in Iraq."

Posted by Vespasian Greans8866 2007-09-25 11:15|| 2007-09-25 11:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Rather than an EM dampening field, it seems more likely that the selective application of force by IDF commandos (suggested in some Israeli papers) disrupted the air defense network.

Posted by RWV 2007-09-25 13:24|| 2007-09-25 13:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh damn, and I had so much hope for a ~~hudna~~ peaceful settlement,too.

Posted by Snoluper Oppressor of the Apes9157 2007-09-25 17:09|| 2007-09-25 17:09|| Front Page Top

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