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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia Confirms Israel Bombed Syria from Lebanon's Airspace
2021-09-05
It’s always nice when the enemy’s trainers confirm the op. See here and here for reports on the Israeli bombing run.
[AnNahar] The Russian military, which provides air-defense systems to Syria, has said that Syria had shot down more than 20 missiles launched from Israeli F-15 fighter jets from Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
's airspace during the Thursday night raid.

Rear Adm.Vadim Kulit, head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in Syria, said Syrian air defense units downed 21 of the 24 guided missiles launched by the Israeli aircraft with Russia-supplied air defense systems. He didn't specify what Syrian facilities were targeted by Israeli jets and whether they inflicted any casualties or damage.

Syria's state news agency SANA had said that the missiles were launched from the area southeast of neighboring Lebanon and targeted areas near Damascus.

The Israeli military, which rarely speaks of its operations in the war-ravaged country, did not acknowledge that they carried out any Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s.

It said only that a surface-to-air missile launched from Syrian territory towards Israeli air space went kaboom! over the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, and that residents in central Israel had located several missile fragments on the ground.
Related:
Damascus: 2021-09-03 Israeli strikes said to target Syria overnight, blasts heard near Tel Aviv
Damascus: 2021-09-02 Russia, Syrian government bomb Turkish-backed factions in Syria's northwest
Damascus: 2021-09-01 The Eternal Jihad: Understanding the 'Deeper' Story Behind Afghanistan
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  The Personal Touch, or, Brass... pretty much anything that rhymes with "Knuckles"

"Standoffish?!?" An affable elf
Of Delphi: "A shelf full of pelf
Have I made selling arms
And long marches and harms,
But I'm fondest of stand-ins, myself!"

Posted by: Lemuel Trotsky2537   2021-09-05 16:48  

#3  /\ As recent events in Wuhan, China bear witness.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-05 12:41  

#2  Stand off weapons are the future.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2021-09-05 11:35  

#1  Bastards! Every time a UFO comes around and bombs Syria, they blame it on the Jews!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-09-05 02:19  

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