WORLD at WAR, OFFICIAL 2013 THREAD (Doom always only a moment away)

we're now, btw, in the window for a hezb rocket offensive (though i don't think one's coming) --they don't have a record of attacking at night

double post

Until now Israel has avoided becoming involved in events in Syria. But if indeed an attack took place Wednesday it could hint to other countries, like Turkey and the United States, that a military attack on Syria to topple the regime may be an option. It is interesting that Russia, which fiercely objects to military intervention in Syria, has also yet to respond to the attack. Russia’s response, if one comes, could hint to Assad and also other nations, the extent to which Moscow is willing to tolerate a military attack on Syria.

Despite Wednesday’s attack, if such an attack took place, it seems the efforts to move weapons from Syria to Lebanon will continue, and may well drag Israel deeper and deeper into the Syrian campaign. Additional Israeli attacks will put the policy of Western nations to a test. The dilemma is that if Israel is allowed to strike Syria or Lebanon to prevent the transfer of weapons, and if Western nations have already agreed that any use of chemical weapons will be met with a military response, then why not attack Syria to save thousands of people and bring down the Assad regime?

[link to www.haaretz.com]

A jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct “shocking” attacks on the United States and the West.
Thread: A jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct “shocking” attacks on the United States and the West.


[link to www.washingtontimes.com]


Thoughts?

Good analysis.

Folks just wish not to involve themselves and Assad knows it, all but Israel. I expect this is the year that all holy hell blows up, maybe not this am, Maybe not February, but sometime very soon all holy hell ignites a big bad fire that will not stop before Damascus is burned.

I was thinking, why issue the threat? What purpose does it hold verses act and then rejoice. They are either again full of Sht or they finally got their hands on some bad voodoo that will soon impact the US.

Can't vouch for veracity

Was on spanish RT twitter

@BreakingNews: Arab League describes reported Israeli airstrikes as flagrant aggression and a glaring violation of Syria's sovereignty - @Haaretzcom

Russia slams Israeli attack on Syria. US forces in Jordan on alert


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Morning all! Everyone wants some instant doom to satisfy them, a good recipe of revenge and doom requires patience and is best served cold. That said, Syria today is preparing a cold meal of revenge and it will come! Opening salvo baby!

Syria about an hour ago
Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali says Damascus has "the option and the surprise to retaliate". He said he cannot predict when the retaliation will be, saying it is up to relevant authorities to prepare for it.

In Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Thursday as saying the raid on Syria will have significant implications for the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

[Source: AP]
[link to blogs.aljazeera.com]

North Korea placed under 'martial law', troops told to 'prepare for war'
North Korea News.Net Thursday 31st January, 2013
North Korea has been placed under martial law and Kim Jong-un has told his troops to 'be ready for a war,' according to a report.
[link to www.northkoreannews.net]

2:08 P.M. Iran says the attack was "clearly coordinated with the West".
"This was an attempt to subvert the victories of the government over the rebels in Syria," says Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akhbar Salehi. The attack "reveals" the cooperation between the rebels and the "Zionist regime," he adds.
[link to www.haaretz.com]

So here is the schedule for Obahma.


White House releasing no info about President's Thursday schedule, other than AM intelligence briefing


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Syria and Iran have threatened to retaliate for an Israeli air raid near the capital Damascus.

Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali said Damascus has "the option and the surprise to retaliate." In Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Thursday as saying the raid on Syria will have significant implications for the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. (AP)
[link to www.ynetnews.com]




First signs that it is coming . . .

And then there is this . . .

Hmm.........

EBeigh: RT @ResistanceAxis: RT @AJELive #Iran says #Israel air raid on #Syria will have significant implications for the Israeli city of #TelAviv [link to t.co]
Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:59:33 AM

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Syria Live Blog

In Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Thursday as saying the raid on Syria will have significant implications for the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

[Source: AP]
[link to blogs.aljazeera.com]

Quick pace of information right now.

High concern in North Korea.

High concern with the China Sea.

Iran is upgrading uranium enrichment

Iran and Syria forewarn retaliation and it is a forewarning to Tel Aviv.

Russia is placing itself with Syria.

Obama is going dark with his schedule.

Even Drudge is getting on board with a link to this article.

Syria, Iran threaten consequences for Israeli strike
[link to www.jpost.com]

Israeli regime deploying forces on Syria border: Syria TV
[link to www.presstv.com]

Good morning friends -

I doubt he's scheduled time at the skeet range.

He spends most of his time trying to get Israel to back down from various ventures that would make Israel safer. I am sure news from the Whitehouse will come out that Obama is consulting with allies and demands that each side adhere to UN laws and treaties. In e meantime, Obama is trying to still figure out how to control Israel, but himself and his advisors are so far left that they would not know how to act in a true crisis.

Ha ha...
You have the same problem as the french people with their socialist president ! Only bargaining and doing stuff for their own agenda.

No surprise to the following . . .

Report: Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in Syria

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When they strike a chemical weapons plant, the end result the populous inhales.

North Korea-Iran Connection in WMD Proliferation
[link to jpi.or.kr] - - Cached - Similar pages


1983 Missle Cooperation Treaty between Iran and North Korea.

A SUPPORT SYSTEM AGAINST THE US.

I think all those trips to Hawaii were to meet with South Korean military.

He may have from time to time - but I really have to believe he still has some very strong ties to Indonesia, which also happens to have the largest Muslim population in the world - and Hawaii provides fairly low-key, easy access means of continuing these associations. While also being removed from the Continental US, this provides additional removal from the larger amounts of press, equating to greater ease in movement and meeting possibilities.

Granted, the same works for meeting with the South Koreans, or anyone else for that matter; we really need to remember these ties to Indonesia, as well as how such may/ will be used for his own advantage.

It was also no accident that they just happened to purchase a home in Hawaii - and that has about as much to do with returning to his purported "childhood home" as it does with working on their tans.

And now for the contrarian view -

Syria's allies warn of retaliation for Israeli airstrikes, but threats are likely hollow

Syria and Iran have threatened retaliation against Israel for a reported strike or pair of strikes in Syrian territory yesterday, but it is widely seen as counter to their interests to follow such bellicose rhetoric with concrete action...

“I don’t think any of the sides are willing to risk a war at this time,” says Timur Goksel, a Beirut-based commentator who served with the United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon between 1979 and 2003. “If there’s going to be another war, it will more likely be related to an attack on Iran, not on an arms convoy or a facility in Syria.”...

Ali Akbar Velayati, the Iranian supreme leader’s top foreign policy adviser, declared over the weekend that “an attack on Syria is considered an attack on Iran and Iran’s allies.” ...

But Iranian news organizations have signaled Iran's disinterest in further escalation by highlighting Russia's firm response that such an attack was "unacceptable" but giving little indication of an Iranian reaction...

But for now, the threat of massive destruction on both sides of the border in the event of another war suggests that the calculus that has helped maintain calm since 2006 will continue to hold, analysts say.

[link to www.csmonitor.com]

i think this is actually the mainstream view