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Russia Preparing To Transfer Advanced Air Defense System--s300--To Syria
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[quote:MHz:MV8yMjI4MzYwXzM3Nzg1NDc1X0Q4OTlERkFG] [quote:Chrit:MV8yMjI4MzYwXzM3Nzg1MTE3XzY2MDZEQkVF] Well yes, the current US administration is already referring to Assad in the past tense. Other countries do not like those terms. [/quote] They do that with everybody they are against. The Syrian people want the leader they have compared to puppets like Lebanon has been for many years, same with Egypt and Bahrain. There is nothing to envy in any of those places, in fact it is worth resisting that form of leadership. Cuba and Iran and Venezuela are better off today, you can't buy better advertizing than that. Libya isn't such a success story. [/quote]
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Israel has warned the U.S. that a Russian deal is imminent to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to Syria, weapons that would significantly boost the regime's ability to stave off intervention in its civil war.
U.S. officials said on Wednesday that they are analyzing the information Israel provided about the suspected sale of S-300 missile batteries to Syria, but wouldn't comment on whether they believed such a transfer was near.
Russian officials didn't immediately return requests to comment. The Russian Embassy in Washington has said its policy is not to comment on arms sales or transfers between Russia and other countries.
The government of President Bashar al-Assad has been seeking to purchase S-300 missile batteries—which can intercept both manned aircraft and guided missiles—from Moscow going back to the George W. Bush administration, U.S. officials said. Western nations have lobbied President Vladimir Putin's government not to go ahead with the sale. If Syria were to acquire and deploy the systems, it would make any international intervention in Syria far more complicated, according to U.S. and Middle East-based officials.
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