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Report: Syria Deploys Missiles near Border with Lebanon |
2012-10-13 |
[An Nahar] The Syrian army deployed advanced surface-to-air missiles along the northern border district of Akkar, Ad Diyar newspaper reported on Friday. According to the report, the missiles can shoot down advanced military warplanes. The newspaper said that Syria's step is precautionary in case Turkey uses Lebanese territories to attack it. Tension escalated between Turkey and Syria recently after a spate of cross-border shell and mortar firings. Turkey, which has been vocal in its criticism of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's crackdown on the opposition, has beefed up its military presence along the 910-kilometer frontier after shelling from Syria killed five Turkish civilians in a border town last week. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 it's going to go to a shooting war ... any time now. |
Posted by: Raider 2012-10-13 16:34 |