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2019-08-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli jets strike in Syria to thwart attack by Iranian ‘killer drones’
Now we know why Israel dragged the Iron Domes up north, and put their squadrons on alert. Israel is clearly having fun with their new F-35s... Herewith the Israeli perspective of events reported more briefly from Syrian and Lebanese sources here. A short video with major secondaries can be seen at the link, much more dramatic than the video provided by the other article. This article also has a photo of an Iranian drone being launched, for those interested in such things.
[IsraelTimes] Army says it carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s near Damascus to foil ’imminent’ IRGC plot to hit sites inside Israel with UAVs armed with explosives; Syria claims it downed Israeli missiles.


Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes in Syria to thwart a planned attack on Israel by Iran-backed fighters using armed drones, the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday night.

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The Israeli military said its strike late Saturday targeted operatives from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force as well as Shiite militias who had been planning on sending "kamikaze" attack drones into Israel armed with explosives.

"The IDF, by Israeli aircraft, was able to thwart an Iranian attempt led by the Quds force from Syria to conduct an attack on Israeli targets in northern Israel using killer drones," military front man Jonathan Conricus told news hounds.

Following the strikes, several Military Intelligence units, air force squadrons and air defense units were put on high alert. Additional Iron Dome anti-missile batteries were deployed to northern Israel as a precautionary measure.

Mayors in northern Israel were also warned of the potential for retaliatory strikes by Iranian forces.

Conricus said Israel had monitored the plot for several months and on Thursday prevented Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
from making an "advanced attempt" to execute the same plan. Then, Iran tried again late Saturday to carry out the same attack, he said.

According to Conricus, the Israeli attack targeted "a number of terror targets and military facilities belonging to the Quds force as well as Shiite militias."

"This was a significant plan with significant capabilities that had been planned for a few months," Conricus said. "It was not something done on a low level, but rather top down from the Quds Force."

He said the Iranian attack was believed to be "very imminent."

Conricus also noted that while Iranian forces had launched rockets and missiles at Israel from Syria three times during 2018, the use of "kamikaze" drones set to explode on their targets was a new and "different tactic."

"The threat was significant and these killer drones were capable of striking targets with significant capacity," he said.

The rare Israeli announcement of a strike inside Syria came minutes after Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported air defenses were activated against hostile targets.

The SANA state news agency claimed that "most of the hostile Israeli missiles were destroyed before reaching their targets."

"The attack was dealt with immediately and efficiently," SANA said.

The Britannia-based Syria Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said several missiles hit positions maintained by foreign forces, while others were downed by air defenses.

The IDF said the strikes targeted sites in the town of Aqrabah, southeast of Damascus, near the city’s airport.

It was not immediately clear if there were casualties in the strike.

There was no immediate comment from Iran on the attack.

Conricus said IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi was meeting with senior officers in the IDF Northern Command. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Israeli strike a "major operational effort."

"Iran has no immunity anywhere. Our forces are operating in every arena against Iranian aggressiveness," he said in a statement.

"If someone rises up to kill you, kill him first," he added, referencing a Talmudic passage justifying pre-emptive action. "I have directed that our forces be prepared for any scenario."

A Twitter account maintained by the Israeli government tweeting in Persian shared a video purporting to show the strike, alongside a translation of Netanyahu’s statement.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is thought to have invested significant resources into developing attack drones for use against Israel and others in recent years.

Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
regularly launch attack drones at targets inside Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
. Iran has denied supplying the rebels with the attack drones.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-25 01:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran Proxies 

#1 "If someone rises up to kill you, kill him first,"

in Babylonia Talmud, tractate Berachos (much of which deals with how to do blessings), folio page 58.

it is a pretty famous sentence, sometimes the 'somebody rises up to kill you' is called the pursuer. It is derived from Ex XXII: 1 which specifies the condition of discovering a thief.
Posted by lord garth 2019-08-25 10:18||   2019-08-25 10:18|| Front Page Top

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