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2006-07-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Debka: Tehran Takes Control, Directing Hezbollah, Arms Airlift
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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-22 20:30|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Do they fly over Iraq to get to Syria?
Turkey?
Saudi?
Posted by 3dc 2006-07-22 20:51||   2006-07-22 20:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Homs is in north syriana, so it would be through turkey.
Posted by Brett 2006-07-22 20:53||   2006-07-22 20:53|| Front Page Top

#3 If this is true, thenthe Turks ARE complicit in Iranian resupply of Syria and Hezbollah.

Turkey has cast the die.

Arm the Kurds and let them loose on Iran and Turkey.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-07-22 20:59||   2006-07-22 20:59|| Front Page Top

#4 FYI: reaosn for claims of complicity: there are only 2 flight routes that Iranian and Syrian aircraft have the range to take: over iraq or else over Turkey.

And they damn sure didnt fly over Iraq.

If these resupply flights did in fact happen, the Turkey has some explaining to do.

Or else we need to post F-16s in the north and secure Turkey's airspace for them.
Posted by Oldspook 2006-07-22 21:01||   2006-07-22 21:01|| Front Page Top

#5 They can make it with civilian aircraft.

Israel didnt understood yet. If they dont destroy Hizballah next time will be WMD rockets.
Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-07-22 21:30||   2006-07-22 21:30|| Front Page Top

#6 The Iranians transported support to Somalia and Sudan. Last month they moved troops to Sudan. Looks to me as if they have a log train set up for the Gaza and into syria.
Posted by 49 Pan 2006-07-22 21:35||   2006-07-22 21:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe salt lick, but I will post it anyway. For Hezbollah and Syria's sake, I hope it's not true.

Farah's G2 Bulletin is reporting that Hezbollah is poised to “launch rain of terror” with rockets equipped with “dirty bomb” nose cones. Farah’s source is the British MI6. MI6 and Mossad believes Hezbollah have about a 1000 of these. Here is how it’s done:

“The nose cones will contain spent nuclear rods from Iran’s nuclear programme. The rods are wrapped with conventional explosives. The dirty bombs are primarily intended to create increased panic across an already nervous population in northern Israel,” claimed a senior intelligence officer in London.”
Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-22 21:35||   2006-07-22 21:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Dirty bombs are very, very, ineffective. They can only contiminate a very small area and all Israel's citizens have gas masks. So contamination would be minimal. Expect Terhan to take several direct his of full blown atomic weapons if such an attack occurs.

I am taking this with 50 pound of salt.

The nut jobs that started this have chem andf Bio weapons and will use them perhaps. If they do expect the same result but inclue Damascus on the list of targets. Unlike the crude guidance of the weapons Terhan is using Israel's are precise.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-07-22 22:20||   2006-07-22 22:20|| Front Page Top

#9 If anything, the next improvements will be better guidance to hit the petro-chemical installations in Haifa.
Posted by Penguin 2006-07-22 22:23||   2006-07-22 22:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I saw that too, Poison Reverse. But where would Hizb'allah get spent fuel rods? Aren't those pretty carefully controlled?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-22 22:31||   2006-07-22 22:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Pakistan (possibly North Korea) via Iran, perhaps?
Posted by Ulath Glereck6991 2006-07-22 22:33||   2006-07-22 22:33|| Front Page Top

#12 "Aren't those pretty carefully controlled?"

LOL! There is nothing like the feeling of rum coming out of your nose.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-22 22:36||   2006-07-22 22:36|| Front Page Top

#13 PR, coffee does almost the same, except the cleanup job. Rum is, indeed, a weapon of mass bacterial destruction! ;-)
Posted by twobyfour 2006-07-22 22:44||   2006-07-22 22:44|| Front Page Top

#14 I will have to believe that Iran is not THAT stupid to make dirty bombs. But if they are. Iran, in key places will be nuked. Israel will do it. If the Israelis do not retaliate, then THEY will be the ones who are doomed.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-07-22 22:50||   2006-07-22 22:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Map shows Homs/Hims as 20 miles from the north eastern border of Lebanon, sixty miles inland from the Med--most of that over Lebanese territory. I wonder if some of the Israeli action in the north wasn't prep to go after Abu Ad Duhur when they need to.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-07-22 23:22||   2006-07-22 23:22|| Front Page Top

#16 AP, they ARE that stupid and they WILL be nuked. I actually pray they do that before they are able to launch the real thing.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-07-22 23:24||   2006-07-22 23:24|| Front Page Top

#17 The origin of any such material would be quickly identified. Possibly in less than 24 hours. The results on the originating country would be spectacular.
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