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Syria Goes Hot: Russia To Deliver Weapons, Deploys Air Defense; Israel Warns Russia; Obama Demands No Fly Zone

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Those who were intently following the USDJPY pair formerly known as the stock market today missed the biggest news of the day: the proxy war in Syria just went hot, following a confluence of news, first that Russia insisted "it would deliver anti-aircraft missiles to Syria despite international criticism, as fears of spillover from the conflict grew" and in logical retaliation to yesterday's decision by Europe to lift an arms embargo to the Al Qaeda-supported, Qatari mercenaries operating in Syria, also known as "rebels.

This lead Israel's defense minister Moshe Yaalon to immediately signal that "its military is prepared to strike shipments of advanced Russian weapons to Syria."

Meanwhile back in the US "the White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced by the U.S. and other countries such as France and Great Britain, two administration officials told The Daily Beast."

And just to make it very clear that Russia is not bluffing, it announced overnight that its four regiments of S-300 air defense systems have been deployed at the Ashuluk firing range in southern Russia as part of another snap combat readiness check of the Russian armed forces "The missions will be carried out in conditions of heavy electronic warfare to test the capabilities of the air defense units to the highest limit."

And to think: yet another threat of a global war over some natgas pipelines from Qatar to Europe, and a threat to Gazprom's monopoly.

From AFP:

Russia insisted Tuesday it would deliver anti-aircraft missiles to Syria despite international criticism, as fears of spillover from the conflict grew after three Lebanese soldiers were killed in a border-area attack.

 

Israel warned Russia it would "know what to do" if the delivery went ahead, and Syria's top rebel commander gave Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement, a 24-hour ultimatum to stop fighting alongside regime forces.

 

The developments stoked tensions after the European Union decided to lift an embargo on weapons to Syria's rebels, in a move the opposition reacted to with caution.

 

Syria's regime joined its ally Russia in condemning the EU decision as an "obstruction" to peace efforts, while accusing the bloc of supporting and encouraging "terrorists".

 

Moscow said it would go ahead with its plans to deliver the S-300 missiles to Syria, despite international concerns, saying the weapons were part of existing contracts.

 

"We consider these supplies a stabilising factor," deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said, adding they could act as a deterrence against foreign intervention.

Israel's immediate response via the Guardian:

Israel quickly issued a thinly veiled warning that it would bomb the Russian S-300 missiles if they were sent to Syria, as such a move would bring the advanced guided missiles within range of civilian and military planes over Israel. Israel has conducted three sets of air strikes on Syria this year, aimed at preventing missiles being brought close to its border by the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah.

 

"The shipments haven't set out yet and I hope they won't," Moshe Ya'alon, the Israeli defence minister, said. "If they do arrive in Syria, God forbid, we'll know what to do."

 

Russia's deputy foreign minister, Sergey Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with Damascus and would be a stabilising factor that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict. That appeared to be a reference to the UK and France, who pushed through the lifting of the EU embargo on Monday night and are the only European countries considering arming the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA).

After much deliberations, and unable to find the much needed "weapons of mass destruction" to justify intervention, the US is nonetheless escalating next and Obama is now said to demand plans for a No Fly Zone over Syria from the Pentagon. From the Daily Beast:

Along with no-fly zone plans, the White House is considering arming parts of the Syrian opposition and formally recognizing the Syrian opposition council.

 

The White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced by the U.S. and other countries such as France and Great Britain, two administration officials told The Daily Beast.

 

The request was made shortly before Secretary of State John Kerry toured the Middle East last week to try and finalize plans for an early June conference between the Syrian regime and rebel leaders in Geneva. The opposition, however, has yet to confirm its attendance and is demanding that the end of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s rule be a precondition for negotiations, a condition Assad is unlikely to accept.

 

In April, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense that the military was planning for a range of options in Syria but that he did not necessarily support using those options.

 

"We're prepared with options, should military force be called upon and assuming it can be effectively used to secure our interests without making matters worse,” he said. “We must also be ready for options for an uncertain and dangerous future. That is a future we have not yet identified."

And finally going back full circle, Russia announced overnight that its four regiments of S-300 air defense systems have been deployed at the Ashuluk firing range in southern Russia as part of another snap combat readiness check of the Russian armed forces, the Defense Ministry said. From RIA:

The regiments were airlifted on Thursday by military transport planes to designated drop zones where they will carry out a variety of missions simulating the defense of the Russian airspace from massive attacks by “enemy” missiles and aircraft.

 

The missions will be carried out in conditions of heavy electronic warfare to test the capabilities of the air defense units to the highest limit,” the ministry said.

 

A total of 8,700 personnel, 185 warplanes and 240 armored vehicles are involved in the three-day exercise, overseen by Col. Gen. Vladimir Zarudnitsky, head of Russian General Staff’s Main Operations Directorate.

Surely all of the above is very beneficial for future global GDP prospects.

Finally, here is the Russian S-300 system causing Qatar gas pipeline plans global democracies so much consternation:

 

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Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:27 | 3605882 expiredeternity
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And the not so cold war gets warm again. I can't wait for something to happen...

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:27 | 3605884 BallsWoodman
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Time to send in Maverick and Goose. USA USA!

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:52 | 3605963 samsara
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Better add that (I hope) omitted /sarc or you will get justifiably killed. :-)

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:28 | 3605886 Debt Slave
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I'd love to see Israel attack Russian shipments. Ohhh pleeeze pleeeze do it pleeeze.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:35 | 3605906 egoist
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Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:39 | 3605918 surf0766
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McCain has this all under control. 

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:44 | 3605933 kchrisc
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Poor Israelis can't get their radar free flight-corridor to Iran. Poor babies!

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 14:24 | 3608091 Kirk2NCC1701
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Looked at a map lately? They fly over Jordan and Iraq or S.A., with refueling from USAF.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:52 | 3605964 egoist
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Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:00 | 3605990 besnook
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all the semi clandestine african wars. it is world war folks. this is the beginning of the massive capacity destruction event we have all been waiting for. this is the beginning of a new era of economics......same as the old era of economics with a slight asian twist.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:14 | 3606008 Money 4 Nothing
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Saudi Arabia, our partners in crime. Germany that doesn't have our back. As a matter of fact, their kinda pissed about that denial of Gold shippment from the Fed vault. Think they will aid Syria in my personal *opinion.

Search: SGT report or click this link.http://sgtreport.com/2013/05/sgt-report-unbound-proof-the-u-s-govt-has-f... link into the recent investigations currently underway.http://www.tomheneghanbriefings.com/

And that's all you need to know.God help us.

 

 

 

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 14:29 | 3608117 Kirk2NCC1701
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"Germany doesn't have our back". Yet the Fed has THEIR gold. And they have the audacity to ask for it. LOL.

Whose side r u on - besides that of the Fed and the MIC?

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:55 | 3605974 Z_End
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The winds of war are blowing... Plans, assumptions, miscalculations...

The Israeli Mistake is coming... Hell to pay.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:01 | 3605992 Fix It Again Timmy
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McCain - seriously demented from being a US senator for sooo long....

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:33 | 3606105 JuicedGamma
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Has nothing to do with spending most of a decade a prisoner of the VietCong.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:42 | 3606135 Money 4 Nothing
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Turned war hawk, collaborating with a sworn US enemy... his impinged shoulders doesn't shy him away from making war. Now after yesterday's stunt, he is a confirmed Traitor of the United States.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:26 | 3606083 UGrev
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This is getting interesting.. it's like two eternal enemies being armed by bank rolling, fat cats who decide to arm the frenemies just so they can have a friendly wa(r)ger at the same time. 

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:35 | 3606106 TNTARG
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Don't you admire the many ways they've to exterminate people?

This that follow (and radiation) makes me wonder if they've another Planet ready to colonize or they're just so fucked up at the point of not being able to consider their own children's future.

WTF are they spraying on us?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d930gfnqlEY#!

I don't know you, but I AM  concern about my children and I'm seriously pissed off.

 

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 14:34 | 3608138 Kirk2NCC1701
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Our true masters and the God they worship actually prefer a globally warm, desert climate. They'll handle the radiation better than you will.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:41 | 3606134 thinkahappythou...
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Make love not war

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:51 | 3606161 W74
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How many goyim Americans will die defending Israel?

Meanwhile kike banksters will be funding the war machine, no differently than what I saw in Iraq and what a bearded Vietnam vet I spoke with today told me about what he saw in his day.  Munitions makers and providers of Logistics and "security services" will NEVER go broke in America, at least in the form we understand it today.

Lawyers will sanction it, judges and politicians will advocate and impliment it.  The Mass Media bobbleheads will promote and advertise it.  See how this works people?

 

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 23:00 | 3606198 GoldVsFRNdotCOM
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...yea and don't forget that the kike controlled hollywood will glorify and immortalize it.

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 22:58 | 3606187 CustomersMan
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This is just a short historical excerpt on 2 attempts used by the U.S. to start a war with Iran, a war demanded by the Neocons / Israel. So, as conditions heat up, keep in mind Syria leads to Iran, and this has been their wet-dream for well over a decade, and False-Flag attacks are their calling-card  a real specialty (Think U.S.S. Liberty).

From Information Clearing House:

May 29th,2013

                   "Who Are The Neoconservatives"

"......Since September 2001, Iran has also been placed in the crosshairs of the neoconservatives. They seem to echo the sentiments of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who, in the London Times on November 2nd, 2002 called Iran the “center of world terror” and called for threats against Iran “the day after the U.S. invades Iraq”. The failure of U.S. troops to silence the resistance in Iraq forced the postponement of the attack on Iran. But Daniel Pipes took the bad news in good spirits, cheerfully stating in the New York Sun (February 28th, 2006) that the Iraqi civil war will invite “Syrian and Iranian participation, hastening the possibility of an American confrontation with those two states”. In spring 2008, President Bush publicly took up this new neoconservative chorus: “The regime of Teheran has a choice to make. […] If Iran makes the wrong choice, America will act to protect our interests and our troops and our Iraqi partners”. We should remember that in May 2003, through the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, the Iranian government sent to Washington a proposal known as the “Grand Bargain”, which, in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions against Iran, promised cooperation with the United States to stabilize Iraq and to establish there a secular democracy, and was prepared to further concessions, including peace with Israel. Bush and Cheney, however, prevented Powell from responding positively to the gesture. And therefore, summarized his Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson: “the secret cabal got what it wanted: no negotiations with Tehran”.

In parallel to this kind of diplomatic obstinacy, false pretenses of war have been regularly created. We know from Gwenyth Todd, advisor on the Middle East linked to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf, that after being barely appointed commander of the fleet in 2007, Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff ordered his aircraft carriers and other ships into aggressive maneuvers in order to strike panic into the Iranians, hoping for a shot fired that would allow them to engage in war for which the pro-Israel lobby was eagerly waiting. Cosgriff wanted to “put a virtual armada, unannounced, on Iran’s doorstep”, without even informing Washington, according to the Washington Post, August 21st, 2012. On January 6th, 2008, the Pentagon announced that Iranian boats fired on American ships USS Hooper and USS Port Royal on patrol in the Strait of Hormuz, while broadcasting threatening messages such as: “I am coming to you”, and “you will explode after two minutes”. The television showed one of the Iranian boats dumping small white objects into the water, presenting the situation as one of hostility, as though the white objects were mines. Referring to this exceptionally “provocative and dramatic” incident, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen expressed concern about “the threat posed by Iran”, including “the threat of mining those straits”, and affirmed his willingness to use “deadly force” if necessary. In reality, the situation presented by the media and Mullen was completely untrue. The Iranian boats that patrolled the area and often passed American ships on a daily basis, had issued no threat whatsoever. Vice Admiral Cosgriff admitted that American crews had, in fact, noted that there was nothing to worry about, since the Iranian boats carried “neither anti-ship missiles nor torpedoes”. Nor did the threatening radio messages come from these vessels: “We don’t know for sure where they came from”, admitted the spokesman for the Fifth Fleet Lydia Robertson."

 

Continues at source

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 03:40 | 3606531 Sandmann
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Neo-Cons are former Leftist  Jews using the US in the same way they once used the USSR until the Church Amendment got them out into a more affluent lifestyle. It is the clique around Richard Perle, William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Leo Strauss that is behind this.....

 

http://www.serendipity.li/iraqwar/ignoble_liars.htm

"Israel can shape its strategic environment," Perle and company wrote, "in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria's regional ambitions."

"In a candid moment shortly before Sept. 11, 2001, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had confided to associates that he was thinking about resigning his Cabinet post and returning to Chicago. His explanation was revealing: "The Likud has taken over the building," he told friends, referring to the Wolfowitz-Perle cabal that had run circles around him in the early months of the "Bush 43" Administration."


Tue, 05/28/2013 - 23:32 | 3606268 CustomersMan
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Excellent Video:

General Wesley ClarkAmerica Taking Out 7 Countries in 5 Years

Syria is on the "List"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY96Z5Mqn40&feature=player_embedded

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 00:10 | 3606354 laomei
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I fail to see the outrage for supplying defensive systems to Syria, seeing as the west has no qualms about supplying offensive weapons to their favorite ponies in the race.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 03:23 | 3606522 Sandmann
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NATO installed Patriot systems in Turkey manned by Germans.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 15:08 | 3608245 Kirk2NCC1701
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Gotta love those obedient good German soldiers. Still so good at following orders. How ironic.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 00:11 | 3606356 ArrestBobRubin
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Can you imagine how many better things America has to do or spend money on than this?

We're not going to war. All that's happening here is that Israel and its proxies are losing badly after overplaying the hand in Syria. They wanted another Libya but Assad don't play dat. We're just witnessing their growing panic. The seasoned observer sees it emerge via sound and fury unleashed in the Jewish owned media and the actions of Israel-first politicians in the US, UK and Europe. They've been thrashing about desparately over Syria.

And now Putin checks in and makes some killer chess moves. Stategically, the S300 batteries aren't just the missles themselves. They're manned by Russians. Vlad is also putting Russian lives on the line here and saying "I dare you- - now just settle down". Yet Israel is threatening Vlad? I mean ya gotta appreciate Catskills humor like that.

I don't see Chuck Hegel or JCS Chief Martin Dempsey going buns up to Bennie and against Putin on this.

Israel and Qatar: you lose in Syria. Save yourselves time and trouble, pack up and leave.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 00:57 | 3606409 jonjon831983
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I think by definition it goes hot when / if Israel bombs any S-300 deliveries.  As of yet just threats.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 03:19 | 3606520 Sandmann
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Israel will not be able to bomb an S300 battery which ranges across Northern Israel so it will seek to disrupt shipments. Once operational Israel loses its airspace. A few SS26 rockets should help focus Israel as its Iron Dome will prove to be a waste of Us tax dollars. Might be the end of Israel this time.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 03:24 | 3606524 Sandmann
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Which parts of israel do you think will be hot-spots ?

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 08:16 | 3606826 Money 4 Nothing
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Where ever they deem a Zionist strong hold may be located. Bibi has a missle with his name on it no doubt. I just feel bad for the Jewish and Palestine people about to witness their nation wiped off the map.

This is a war against Israel and Western aggression trying to install Monarch rule and were out numbered and don't have the regional support to mount an offensive campaign to dominate the N. Africa region without NATO forces being called on through a no- fly zone.

I think their biting off more than they can chew.

Russia is there with the full support of China.

Germany is there cause we pissed them off something terrible recently. Their backing Syria and Russia.

So.. who do we have as allies?

1. UK

2. Al CIAda

3. Muslim Brotherhood.

4. Saudi Arabia

5. Turkey.

6. S. Korea

7. Japan. They can help by choking the enemy with their bogus counterfeit  bonds.

8. France. Good luck with that support. Didn't work out so much the last go-round.

9. Israel. 

They have..

1. Germany.

2. Russia.

3. China.

4. N. Korea

5. Syria

6. Iran

And I'm missing a few I will fill in later. But these listed above are the real global powers that be. Kill thy creditor must still be on the table? 

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 05:55 | 3606528 NuYawkFrankie
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Re Russia Delivers Weapons...

Excellent news.

About time someone stood-up to the Global Punkocracy

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 07:04 | 3606673 lakecity55
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What legal issue can the USSA stand on for a no-fly zone?

The measure would sustain a veto by Russia and China at the Security Council.

If the USSA stooge government can deliver arms to the "rebels," why can't Russia deliver missiles to Syria?

The missiles are to protect Syrian Airspace, not Israeli warplanes over their own Israeli territory.

A trusted source told me there are some spurious moves being made by Russian Federation Forces.

Ass-Haad, not a nice guy, has not threatened to invade or attack the USSA. Why should our personnel be placed at risk? Why should we risk our guys' deaths for a bunch of oil emirates and their pipeline dominance/marketing schemes?

Putin is not a man to be trifled with. The USSA has too many problems to get involved in a Big War, unless the Plan is a Big War to further the agenda of a third party.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 07:46 | 3606748 Money 4 Nothing
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Because they ..

1. Refused to relinquish their Sovereignty. 

2. Told the Central bankers to go suck a fat dick.

3. Sits on a gold reserve akin to Momars in Lybia that needs to be liberated.

4. OPEC participating nation that doesn't trade in the petro dollar.

Other than that. you can see how brutal of a dictator he is. Same playbook from Iraq unless your not paying attention as most useless Psy Op Americans don't. 

Real simple folks. Just look up on your interweb what sovereign nations that DO NOT HAVE A CENTRAL BANK INSTALLED. Coincidently just happens to be all the Sovereigns we claim electrocute little boy's testicles and un plug incubators, WMD's etc..  Big picture folks. 

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 08:55 | 3606979 lakecity55
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The Red Shield Clan were enemies of the old Tsars.

I do not know if today they control the Russian Central Bank post-USSR or not.

Indeed, BIS' owners have no hold on Iran, Syria, or NK.

Assad may be a bad guy, but he is Syria's Bad Guy.

USA citizenisms have no right to interfere in Syrian Governement.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 08:57 | 3606992 Money 4 Nothing
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Agreed. By us fleshing out all the facts of this matter doesn't change the inevitable. . This all ends badly and the USA will have lost on many fundamental fronts.

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 09:22 | 3607074 esum
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So obama mimics bush's no fly zone... my question is, what's flying in the first place? I thought we sent hand held surface to air missles to al queda already (from libyia)...Russia is sending surface to air missles, so I guess we want a few of our planes shot down, so we can escalate our eternal war. Why dont we sit down with russia and give them the port facility they want. The real game is CONTROL OF THE GAS AND OIL AND PIPELINES FROM THE CASPIAN... also lets let sunni and shia kill each other to the end of days... Why are we funding al queda? Kerry is in way over his horse face and Obama must get his full night's sleep regardless of the crisis. I guess obama's dream of him heading the new caliphate must be put on hold.. Who, other than al queda, will be in charge when assad leaves or is killed? Ultimately Russia will attack Israel and start WWIII. 

 

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 10:27 | 3607283 earleflorida
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question we should be asking ourselves is-- what was assad doing that was so different? i mean, the country has always been secular and functioned as that since the fucking french gave up their hold!

the people were fine... just fine, and going about daily life, until the ussa trifecta showed-up?-- 'the cia/fbi/al queda' were given their marching orders from hillary'con who's in hiding right now [probably in a 'fortified closet/closured amazonian-dyke-- ya know... a manifested brain hemorrhage from to many and certainly too much of a bloody-mary 'cunt-juice? thingy'] under the foreign relation's umbrella, called... the UN[touchables]!!! 

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 10:03 | 3607165 earleflorida
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"Electromagnetic weapons, 'Frying Tonight'"  *10/15/11*     http://www.economist.com/node/21532245

"The Dawn of the E-Bomb"  ** 10/31/2003**    http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/the-dawn-of-the-ebomb

***China's indifference to Syria and how 1962 is a grim reminder of: Taking one's Eye's and Ear's out of the Past regarding a inscrutable China and their recrudesce trump-card called 'Apropos?'***     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-indian_War

,... and, from 'www.atimes.com' this morning:     "World eyes China's coexistence strategy"   5/29/13   by Liselotte Ogarrd   http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-290513.html

Is this the Grand`Test for 'WMD's as supersonic drone (mini-suitcase?) missile?'s take over the friendly skies of the 'New-New World Order'?   jmo

thankyou Tyler

 

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