BREAKING Russia Evacs before Missile Strike - Calls Obama a "Monkey with a Grenade"

Looks like flights are being diverted away from Cyprus

Check out Cyprus Airways CYP7776.

Was coming in for a landing and now heading west into the Med

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Military plane over Cyprus

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Royal Air Force tanker/refueler cruising over the Mediterranean right now.

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US requested Greece to use Kalamata & Souda airbases

[link to www.ekathimerini.com]

This photo explains the whole shit going on!

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On approach to Miley Cyrus's landing strip right now.

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‘Israel to be first victim of war on Syria’
A senior member of Iran’s Majlis says the Israeli regime will be the first entity to fall victim in case of a potential military intervention by the United States in Syria.

Calls for pro-Assad volunteers in Syria to surround government buildings that are likely to be hit by the Americans

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What would you do if you were in his position?

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former case officer in the C.I.A., is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He is the author of “Know Thine Enemy: A Spy’s Journey into Revolutionary Iran,” “The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy,”

NY Times :August 26, 2013

The Middle East challenges and dissipates power quickly. We’re seeing that now in Syria.

President Obama drew a “red line” on the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The dictator Bashar al-Assad, sensing Obama’s determination to avoid further military conflict, has crossed that line, for the obvious tactical reason that such arms are ideal in a terror war against a civilian population in revolt. Weapons of mass destruction are the great equalizers: for Syria’s minority Alawite Shi’ite dictatorship, they are an essential tool to break the stalemate against the much more numerous Sunni opposition.

America’s credibility in the region — which is overwhelmingly built on Washington’s willingness to use force — will be zero unless Obama militarily intercedes now to knock down the Assad regime. Firing cruise missiles or even more punishing strikes from fighter-bombers against Syria’s chemical-weapons depots and plants will be as effective in countering Assad’s lethal calculations, and his capacity to deploy further weapons of mass destruction, as was President Bill Clinton’s cruise-missile barrage against Osama bin Laden after the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998.

If the president intends to maintain American influence, which means maintaining a credible threat to go to war to stop Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, then Washington’s response to Assad’s challenge must be devastating. The entire regime must be targeted: elite military units, aircraft, armor and artillery; all weapons-depots; the myriad organizations of the secret police; the ruling elite’s residences; and other critical Alawite infrastructure.

President Obama may not believe that Middle Eastern conflicts are a proper test of his or America’s mettle; that sentiment is irrelevant now. He put the country’s reputation on the line in Syria. The president has said many times that he doesn’t bluff. Assad, with Tehran and Moscow behind him, has called his hand. The choice now is either war or headlong retreat. The president should ask for Congress’s assent, and go to war

[link to www.all4syria.info]

a tall, mountain fortress on the modern battlefield only puts you closer to the incoming bombs and shells that'll be raining down from those newfangled things called "airplanes".

assad would be better off just letting the energy giants of the "free world" have Syria's natural gas reserves or whatever.

Israel has been pushing hard for intervention in Syria. Rumours (from anonymous US state officials) say they have performed som limited actions already, by bombing som depots.

So Iran has taken aim at the correct target.

PressTV, really ?

I think the Iranians should be more concerned about what will happen to their own country IF Israel falls !

Cos you can be damn sure that if Israel is ever backed into a corner and its very survival threatened, it will turn the whole middle east into a glass parking lot, Iran included !

pooop

Sources close to Greece dep. of defense are leaking. US asks Greece to use their bases. [link to www.ekathimerini.com]

The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart

known Egyptian blogger who writes under the pseudonym The Big Pharaoh put together this chart laying out the region’s rivalries and alliances.

The joke is that it’s not a joke; this is actually pretty accurate


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They always look like that!!
Come on

That's not too good of an answer. :<

Remember the 400 tons of arms the Syrian rebels received a few days before Kerry's speech? Well, in that case, they'll be very useful soon.

Some of these arms (more expected to arrive beyond the 400 tons) are sophisticated & will prove to be effective as Assad gets the slaps

According to @MahirZeynalov some of them are sophisticated weapons. He has the details.

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US, Russia cancels their meeting scheduled in The Hague this week on Syria.

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That 400 ton shipment was a year ago. Those weapons have long since been distributed and likely used.

Not really that accurate. It has America hating Al Qaeda!

We all know Al Ciada is an American construct and they are fighting 'with' the Syrian rebels that the US 'supports'.

Don't be fooled by "limited strikes" talk. They're trying to lul Syria into a false sense of security to protect Israel Pre-emptive Strike!

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Syria rebels use psychostimulant drugs

A large quantity of Captagon tablets are displayed at a police station in Beirut on Tuesday, August 13, 2013. (Source: The Daily Star)

Militants in Syria are using stimulant and synthetic drug sent by their foreign supporters as Syria war goes on with vicious images of brutality and inhuman crimes.

According to reports, Syrian army has found different types of pills in militants’ strongholds on several occasions after their mop-up operations.

Captagon is one of the most common ones found in militants’ possessions.

[link to counterpsyops.com]

^THIS^

Thank you for posting it! Been trying to explain the different factors to people, but they need small words & pictures to understand.

Is there one for the religious groups as well?

Troop Exercises: Turkey Prepares for Retaliatory Syrian Gas Attacks

[link to www.trunews.com]

No takers huh.

Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Nerve Gas, Not Assad's Regime: U.N. Official

Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.

Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof," that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.

But she said her panel had not yet seen any evidence of Syrian government forces using chemical weapons, according to the BBC, but she added that more investigation was needed.

[link to www.aina.org]