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The Syrians lie again

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What bullshit. The lying Syrians claim that Golan never belonged to Israel. Guess what. There is no negotiation over the withdrawal of the Golan Heights in UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Syria already turned down Israel’s offer to return all the Golan Heights in exchange for peace. The warring Arabs lost the Golan Heights because they attacked Israel. Arabs chose war. Arabs must face the consequences of their aggressive barbaric 7th century warring nature.

The intended destruction of Israel has been frenetic since 1947 and is still going on, 60+ years later. The results of each defeated act of Muslim aggression perpetuate excuses for more Arab aggression against Israel. A Muslim Syrian barbarian organization, the Committees for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, says it is holding missing Israeli soldier, Guy Hever, missing since August 1997. Ten years, folks. The Muslim vermin have been holding onto Guy Hever for ten years. We really don’t know if he is alive or if he is dead. In late 1966, a youth was blown to pieces by a mine while playing football near the Lebanon border. In hundreds of incidences, attacks on Jews were carried out by the dead puke Arafat’s Fatah, which Syria allowed to operate from its territory.

Most importantly, the Golan is Israeli. Why does no one in the White House know this? Via INN:

The Syrian and Lebanese delegates to the Annapolis conference Tuesday were provided a forum in which to express their countries’ views, but were not accorded the privilege of delivering a speech to the conference plenum.

Speaking at a workshop entitled “Towards a Comprehensive Middle East Peace,” Syrian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Faisal al-Mekdad insisted that Israel must hand over the Golan Heights and totally withdraw from the “1967 Arab land.” Only then, he declared, would Damascus consider “normalizing” ties with the Jewish State. He then said Syria “is sincere in seeking a comprehensive and just peace and possesses the political will to achieve it.”

Israeli officials said the Syrian delegate also demanded that Israel withdraw from the Har Dov (Sheba’a Farms) area as well.

Written by Smooth

November 28, 2007 at 5:11 pm

Hamas "to Step Up Attacks" After Annapolis

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President Bush, goddamit, what kind of myopic, ignorant madman are you? How DARE you force Israel to negotiate with terrorists! How DARE you!

From Hamas “to Step Up Attacks” After Annapolis:

Syrian-based Musa Abu Marzouk, the number-two man in Hamas, said the post-Annapolis period would witness a dramatic escalation in anti-Israel attacks.

“Resistance operations will be escalated in all forms and methods,” he said.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhr said the Arab League decision to send Arab foreign ministers to the Annapolis conference came as a shock to most Palestinians because it paved the way for normalization with Israel.

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November 26, 2007 at 7:22 pm

What Happened to Saddam’s WMDs?

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We are convinced that mobile weapons were transferred from Iraq to Syria. Why is the rest of the world resisting the facts evident in satellite footage of that weapons transfer? From What Happened to Saddam’s WMD?, via Daily Alert:

Former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, has released a report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program, based on a private study of captured Iraqi documents. As Loftus summarized, “Roughly one-quarter of Saddam’s WMD was destroyed under UN pressure during the early to mid-1990s. Saddam sold approximately another quarter of his weapons stockpile to his Arab neighbors during the mid-to-late-1990s. The Russians insisted on removing another quarter in the last few months before the war.”

“The last remaining WMD, the contents of Saddam’s nuclear weapons labs, were still inside Iraq on the day when the coalition forces arrived in 2003. His nuclear weapons equipment was hidden in enormous underwater warehouses beneath the Euphrates River. Saddam’s entire nuclear inventory was later stolen from these warehouses.”

Loftus then cites Israeli sources who claim that the Iraqi nuclear program was transferred to Deir az Zour province in Syria. Israel reportedly destroyed a Syrian nuclear installation at Deir az Zour.

For more on Satellite Images, see this.

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November 21, 2007 at 6:00 am

Satellite Photos Show Cleansing of Targeted Syrian Site

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From Satellite Photos Show Cleansing of Targeted Syrian Site:

New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site that Israel bombed last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor. A senior intelligence official said, “It doesn’t lower suspicions; it raises them. This was not the long-term decommissioning of a building, which can take a year. It was speedy. It’s incredible that they could have gone to that effort to make something go away.”

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October 27, 2007 at 5:44 pm

Posted in Syria

Report: Iran Worried Over Syrian Air Defense Failure

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From Report: Iran Worried Over Syrian Air Defense Failure:

Iran is concerned over the failure of Syria’s air defense systems to detect the Israel Air Force non-stealth aircraft that reportedly carried out an attack inside Syria last month, Aviation Week reported Wednesday. According to the report, Israel used highly advanced equipment to jam Syria’s defenses, thus neutralizing the defense missile systems which rely on it. Iran is especially concerned over the failure of Syria’s Russian-made radar systems. Iran is slated to purchase more Russian radar equipment to protect its nuclear facilities in a future deal worth $750 million.

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October 6, 2007 at 7:05 am

Posted in Iran, Syria

Report: Dozens dead in Syrian chemical weapons experiment

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Dozens of Syrian military officers and Iranian engineers were killed about two months ago in an a chemical weapons accident, Jane’s Magazine reported Monday, revealing new details on the incident which took place in a secret weapons facility. According to the report by the British magazine, the explosion occurred early in the morning on July 26, in a factory in the city of Halab, as the officers were attempting to mount a chemical warhead with mustard gas on a Scud-C missile.

A fire which started in the missile’s engine led to an explosion near a storage location of chemical substances. The blast spread lethal chemical agents, including mustard gas, VX gas and sarin nerve gas, which are considered extremely toxic and are banned for use according to international treaties. Jane’s Magazine reports that the explosion killed 15 Syrian officers and dozens of Iranian engineers who were in the facility. Dozens of people were injured. The incident was reported at the time by Syria’s official news agency, but the report only included information on the Syrian casualties and did not mention the Iranian representatives.

The Syrian report also claimed that the explosion was caused by a “heat wave” in the country, although the blast took place at around 4:30 am, and that the Syrian government rejected the possibility of sabotage.

According to the British magazine, the facility where the accident took place was built as part of a cooperation agreement signed between Syria and Iran in 2005. The joint activity included technological supply and assistance from Syria to Iran.

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September 27, 2007 at 6:34 pm

Defenseless enemies are fun

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Folks, you know that photo of that smirking, arrogant cocky Muslim who holds a protest sign that says “May allah make a mushroom cloud over Israel” to represent how peaceful his fake religion is?

The following article is for him.

Keep smiling, punk. The next mushroom cloud you beg for, could very well be over Mecca and Damascus. So be careful what you wish for, cur.

Folks, I encourage you to read the following excellent article from Dr. Jack Wheeler, Silence in Syria, Panic in Iran, which can be read in full only if you register:

Wednesday, 19 September 2007

One of India’s top ranking generals assigned to liaise with the Iranian military recently returned to New Delhi from several days in Tehran – in a state of complete amazement.

“Everyone in the government and military can only talk of one thing,” he reports. “No matter who I talked to, all they could do was ask me, over and over again, ‘Do you think the Americans will attack us?’ ‘When will the Americans attack us?’ ‘Will the Americans attack us in a joint operation with the Israelis?’ How massive will the attack be?’ on and on, endlessly. The Iranians are in a state of total panic.”

And that was before September 6. Since then, it’s panic-squared in Tehran. The mullahs are freaking out in fear. Why? Because of the silence in Syria.

On September 6, Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-16s conducted a devastating attack on targets deep inside Syria near the c ity of Dayr az-Zawr. Israel’s military censors have muzzled the Israeli media, enforcing an extraordinary silence about the identity of the targets. Massive speculation in the world press has followed, such as Brett Stephens’ Osirak II in yesterday’s (9/18) Wall St. Journal.

Stephens and most everyone else have missed the real story. It is not Israel’s silence that “speaks volumes” as he claims, but Syria’s. Why would the Syrian government be so tight-lipped about an act of war perpetrated on their soil?

The first half of the answer lies in this story that appeared in the Israeli media last month (8/13): Syria’s Antiaircraft System Most Advanced In World. Syria has gone on a profligate buying spree spending vast sums on Russian systems, “considered the cutting edge in aircraft interception technology.”

Syria now “possesses the most crowded antiaircraft system in the world,” with “more than 200 antiaircraft batteries of different types,” some of which are so new that they have been installed in Syria “before being introduced into Russian operation service.”

While you’re digesting that, take a look at the map of Syria:


Notice how far away Dayr az-Zawr is from Israel. An F15/16 attack there is not a tiptoe across the border, but a deep, deep penetration of Syrian airspace. And guess what happened with the Russian super-hyper-sophisticated cuttin <> g edge antiaircraft missile batteries when that penetration took place on September 6th.

Nothing.

El blanko. Silence. The systems didn’t even light up, gave no indication whatever of any detection of enemy aircraft invading Syrian airspace, zip, zero, nada. The Israelis (with a little techie assistance from us) blinded the Russkie antiaircraft systems so completely the Syrians didn’t even know they were blinded.

Now you see why the Syrians have been scared speechless. They thought they were protected – at enormous expense – only to discover they are defenseless. As in naked.

Thus the Great Iranian Freak-Out – for this means Iran is just as nakedly defenseless as Syria. I can tell you that there are a lot of folks in the Kirya (IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv) and the Pentagon right now who are really enjoying the mullahs’ predicament. Let’s face it: scaring the terror masters in Tehran out of their wits is fun.

It’s so much fun, in fact, that an attack destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities and the Revolutionary Guard command/control centers has been delayed, so t hat France (under new management) can get in on the fun too.

On Sunday (9/16), Sarkozy’s foreign minister Bernard Kouchner announced that “France should prepare for the possibility of war over Iran’s nuclear program.”

All of this has caused Tehran to respond with maniacal threats. On Monday (9/17), a government website proclaimed that “600 Shihab-3 missiles” will be fired at targets in Israel in response to an attack upon Iran by the US/Israel. This was followed by Iranian deputy air force chief Gen. Mohammad Alavi announcing today (9/19) that “we will attack their (Israeli) territory with our fighter bombers as a response to any attack.”

A sure sign of panic is to make a threat that everyone knows is a bluff. So our and Tel Aviv’s response to Iranian bluster is a thank-you-for-sharing yawn and a laugh. Few things rattle the mullahs’cages more than a yawn and a laugh. Yet no matter how much fun this sport with the mullahs is, it is also deadly serious. The pressure build-up on Iran is getting enormous. Something is going to blow and soon. The hope is that the blow-up will be internal, that the regime will implode from within.

But make no mistake: an all-out full regime take-out air assault upon Iran is coming if that hope doesn’t materialize within the next 60 to 90 days. The Sept. 6 attack on Syria was the shot across Iran’s bow.

So – what was attacked near Dayr az-Zawr? It’s possible it was North Korean “nuclear material” recently shipped to Syria, i.e., stuff to make radioactively “dirty” warheads, but nothing to make a real nuke with as the Norks don’t have real nukes (see Why North Korea’s Nuke Test Is Such Good News, October 2006).

Another possibility is it was to take out a stockpile of long-range Zilzal surface-to-surface missiles recently shipped from Iran for an attack on Israel.

A third is it was a hit on the stockpile of Saddam’s chemical/bio weapons snuck out of Iraq and into Syria for safekeeping before the US invasion of April 2003.

But the identity of the target is not the story – for the primary point of the attack was not to destroy that target. It was to shut down Syria’s Russian air defense system during the attack. Doing so made the attack an incredible success.

Syria is shamed and silent. Iran is freaking out in panic. Defenseless enemies are fun.

Written by Smooth

September 26, 2007 at 5:10 pm

Posted in Iran, Maps, Photos, Syria

The Arabic Channel: The Islamist Trojan Horse

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From The Arabic Channel: The Islamist Trojan Horse:

Have you watched the Arabic Channel, also known as TAC, which serves the New York region? If you are among the estimated 1 million viewers, Arabic-speaking immigrants to the tri-state area, who tune in to Channel 507 on Time Warner Cable, this is what you can get: A daily dose of Islamic jurisprudence from Egyptian sheik Amr Khaled, direct from Cairo, on how the duty of every Arab-American is to become first, second, and only, a member of the Muslim Ummah. A nightly helping of Syria’s CNN-style digest of the world, sent fresh from Damascus.

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September 23, 2007 at 12:18 pm

Middle East Volcano

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From Middle East Volcano:

On Sept. 6, something important happened in northern Syria. We do know that Israel carried out an airstrike. How do we know it was important? Because in Israel, where leaking is an art form, even the best-informed don’t have a clue. They tell me they have never seen a better-kept secret. Only two countries registered strong protests to the Israeli strike: Turkey and North Korea. What business is this of North Korea’s? Unless it was a North Korean facility being hit.

The al-Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is training and equipping Shiite extremist militias in the use of the deadliest IEDs and rocketry against American and Iraqi troops. Iran is similarly helping the Taliban to attack NATO forces in Afghanistan. Why is Iran doing this? Because it has its eye on a single prize: the bomb. It needs a bit more time, knowing that once it goes nuclear, it becomes the regional superpower and Persian Gulf hegemon.

Iran’s assets in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are poised and ready. Ahmadinejad’s message is this: If anyone dares attack our nuclear facilities, we will fully activate our proxies, unleashing unrestrained destruction on Israel, moderate Arabs, Iraq and U.S. interests – in addition mining the Strait of Hormuz and causing an acute oil crisis and worldwide recession. This is an extremely high-stakes game. The time window is narrow. In probably less than two years, Ahmadinejad will have the bomb. Which makes it all the more urgent that powerful sanctions be slapped on the Iranian regime.

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September 23, 2007 at 12:14 pm

Source: Syria Working on Clandestine Nuclear Program Since 1986

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From Source: Syria Working on Clandestine Nuclear Program Since 1986:

A former Syrian military officer who has had access to sensitive military information in Damascus confirmed Tuesday that Syria has been working on a clandestine nuclear program at least since 1986. He said many North Korean nationals are in Syria in relation to that program. He claimed that Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan has visited Syria several times since 1989, after being introduced to the Damascus Baathist regime by Libya. He also said Syria possesses the “latest Russian technology in air defense,” but that it was reluctant to expose it during the latest attack because, two decades ago, such exposure allowed Israel to destroy all Syrian anti-aircraft missiles in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

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September 20, 2007 at 5:27 am