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| Syria to redeploy troops in Lebanon |
| 2003-10-31 |
| The Syrian army is inclined to carry out a new redeployment operation in Lebanon following the recent talks between the commanding generals of the Lebanese and Syrian armies, An Nahar daily reported Friday. Quoting "informed sources", the report added the Syrian move is connected to "possible developments on the border with Israel." Expect to need those troops, do you? Syria has cut down its Lebanon-based troops in the four previous redeployments from 40,000 in 1976 to 20,000 in 2003. Meanwhile, in Washington the Bush administration said Syria would have to withdraw from Lebanon in a short time, asserting that the Damascus government "has to be taken to account and will be taken to account." "Lebanon needs at an early point in the future to be free and to have an opportunity to build a Lebanese society for the Lebanese," Bush’s National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice told a news conference in New York Thursday night. Condi speaks, Syria gets nervous. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #8 Will the United States step in and help Isreal fight back if they are attacked? You assume that the Israelis would need our help. I think they'd do just fine. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-10-31 9:52:04 PM |
| #7 If I were Mossad, I would plant a rumor in the camps that the Syrians are in cohoots with the Americans and are planning a secret extermination of all Iranian backed miltants. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-10-31 8:45:20 PM |
| #6 With all the entropy going on in Iraq, Syria feels that it has wiggle room and an opportunity to stick it to Israel. They are betting that the US will not get directly involved. They look at the US problems in Iraq as a sign of weakness. Iraq is the key. If we clean up Iraq, then the picture gets better. If it takes longer to clean up Iraq, Hamas and Hezbollah may go for it and we will be drawn in. Either way Syria will need an ass kicking. It seems to be the only way to communicate with these ME nutcases. Sad but true. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-10-31 5:27:23 PM |
| #5 More likely they're planning on being the back-up in Lebanon when Hamas/Hezbollah start launching major attacks. Good. Now's the time to observe and record their locations and movements. Now that the B-2 can attack a boatload of targets all at once, the Syrians can be taken out with quick efficiency if it comes to that. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-31 4:02:13 PM |
| #4 Could Syria be planning a assault on Isreal? More likely they're planning on being the back-up in Lebanon when Hamas/Hezbollah start launching major attacks. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2003-10-31 2:34:14 PM |
| #3 And how long will it take for the "peace" movement to blame it all on us and/or Israel? They already drafted the response RC. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-10-31 12:37:52 PM |
| #2 More importantly -- if Syria attacks Israel, what happens in Iraq? Will the loons go apeshit? Will the US stop short of supporting Israel to keep the lesser loons from going apeshit? Or will the Iraqis, sick of Syrians coming over and killing them, set aside their religion's requirement for Jew-hating? And how long will it take for the "peace" movement to blame it all on us and/or Israel? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-31 12:17:14 PM |
| #1 Could Syria be planning a assault on Isreal? Could they really be that stupid? Will the United States step in and help Isreal fight back if they are attacked? Let's hope the answer to all of these are yes. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-10-31 12:00:04 PM |