[Coming Attraction] Lebanon War in Mid-July

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JoMo

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Just posted a little while ago which leads me to believe the below posted story has some merit.

15:53 Syria advises its citizens to leave Lebanon by July 15 due to security situation (DPA)
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But there are previous stories posted this week that something big is about to happen.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3422565,00.html

Lebanon 'to erupt in 1 week'

Syria calls on citizens to evacuate Lebanon, reports say; Expert: Civil war possible

Syria has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon ahead of an expected "eruption" in that country, Arab and Iranian press reports have said.

The media reports were translated and made available by MEMRI in a special dispatch on Sunday.

"In the past few days, Arab and Iranian media reports have pointed to the possibility that Lebanon's current political crisis may become a violent conflict after July 15, 2007," the MEMRI dispatch said.

July 15 comes one day before a special UN Security Council meeting which is expected to discuss the possibility of stationing international experts on the Syria-Lebanon border, in order monitor the ongoing illegal cross border arms traffic to Hizbullah, thought to be originating from Iran and Syria.
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There's also this:

Two U.N. reports issued last week clearly underlined the growing danger. One, by the secretary general, reported evidence of rearmament by Hezbollah as well as by extremist Palestinian factions and of shipments of heavy weapons across the Syrian-Lebanese border. It said that the Lebanese government had reported seizing a truckload of weapons belonging to Hezbollah, including Russian Grad rockets, and that the Lebanese army had observed four truck carriers bearing eight missile launchers across the border last month. A second report, by an independent group of experts assigned to inspect the border, found no effective controls to prevent arms smuggling and said that Lebanese forces charged with border security had not seized any contraband arms.
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And this:
BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 24 — A car bombing killed five United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Sunday, opening another potentially disastrous fault line in a country held hostage to violence and political deadlock.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack on the peacekeepers, who were deployed along the border with Israel after last summer’s war with Hezbollah. But suspicion immediately fell on militant Islamists, who are fighting the Lebanese Army in the country’s north. The United Nations force, Unifil, has been on alert for weeks because of that fight and several bombings that are believed to be related to it.

The attack hit two United Nations vehicles on a main road near the southern town of Khiyam. Witnesses said ammunition in at least one of the vehicles exploded after the initial blast.
 
And flashy siren on Drudge right now..

Turkey has massed 140,000 troops on its border with Iraq
 
Yeah, this whole thing is gonna explode:

Foreign minister says Turkey has 140,000 troops on border with Iraq
Mon Jul 09 2007 09:22:44 ET

Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq but so far there has been no violations, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday.

Hoshyar Zebari's comments came amid calls by Turkey's military for the government to give it the green light to carry out military operations in northern Iraqi against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

"Turkey is building up forces on the border. There are 140,000 soldiers fully armed on the border. We are against any military interference or violation of Iraqi sovereignty," Zebari said during a news conference in Baghdad.

Developing...
 
If Turkey invades I say we pull out and let t he Iraqi's unite and deal with them, otherwise turkey will overrun them and THEY will have to deal with the stupid insurgents. Its a win win.
 
LGBR said:
i cant wait to see what the jews do
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Apparently preparing for war
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Syria says doubts IDF Golan Heights exercise is merely training

Syria is unwilling to accept Israel's claims that the maneuvers of its
forces on the Golan Heights are for training purposes only, an analyst on
Syrian radio said Wednesday.

"Since Olmert said specifically that he is unwilling to enter into a dialogue with Syria, and senior American officials reiterate the same statements, we are unable to believe his lies," the analyst said.

He repeated the official Syrian position that Israel is not a country
interested in peace and is the source of regional instability. The editor in chief of the official daily Al-Thawra wrote Wednesday that Syria is expecting Israel to attack it at any time and warned that Israel would make a mistake if it did so.

The Israel Defense Forces this week carried out one of the largest infantry exercises of recent years in the Golan Heights region, training for conflict with Syria and Hezbollah.

Supplies were air-dropped, tanks provided covering fire and infantry forces trained in nonconventional warfare and countering anti-tank missile attacks.

"We are training for every possible scenario. Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas in the Gaza Strip and terror organizations in the West Bank," an officer says.

The IDF said the exercise was not intended to signal any attack on Syria, a statement Damascus did not accept.

The IDF is trying to correct shortcomings discovered during the Second Lebanon War, a battalion commander said. The Golani brigade lost 20 fighters in the last war.

The exercise's goal is to prepare both mentally and actively for any future challenge. "Last year we were less trained, we lacked resoluteness and decisiveness. With regard to mental preparation the problem lay in the sharp transition from routine to warfare," he said.

A senior officer says that over the past year the exercises for reserve troops have increased dramatically. "The exercises are more structured. Each unit carries out specific exercises according to its goals and aims. Our emergency supplies have been renewed, there is a multi-year plan for weapons and personal equipment. Everything is based on the assumption that a reserve soldier's preparation should be similar to that of a regular soldier," he says.

IDF officers are convinced that the army has learned many lessons from the last war and that the threats to which the forces had been exposed have been dealt with, especially the threat of Hezbollah's advanced anti-tank missiles. They believe Syria's army has limited capabilities and its air force is far inferior to Israel's. Therefore, a new war would resemble last year's fighting in Lebanon - commando combat in difficult terrain with large areas controlled by anti-tank units.

In recent months the Golan Heights has become one of the IDF's main exercise areas. At times this requires closing off roads. Infantry troops and rows of tanks, armored personnel carriers and jeeps raise clouds of dust in grazing fields and the air is filled with low-flying helicopters and echoes of explosions.

"This is the first time they let us practice with live fire," says a reserve soldier from the central region, after completing a two-week exercise in the Golan last month. It's like a medicine student who practiced only on a plastic doll and needs to feel the real thing. We've exercised attacks, fired from rocket launchers. But as for the Syrian threat, I did not feel like the commanders knew something that hasn't been written about in the newspapers," he said.

Another reserve soldier, who completed an exercise at the Ze'elim base, reported a significant improvement in the quality of weapons and equipment. He said this was the first serious exercise he had taken part in since 2001. "This time we felt we were really training," he said.
 
JoMo said:
The Jews invaded summer? Was this like a summer Jewish invasion?
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how have you managed not to kill yourself by now with that reading ability?But I guess its nice to know you've given up defending that total fuck up, now only if you would do the same for bush's total fuck up in iraq.
 
KnightMare said:
how have you managed not to kill yourself by now with that reading ability?But I guess its nice to know you've given up defending that total fuck up, now only if you would do the same for bush's total fuck up in iraq.
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What the hell are you even talking about? I was making a joke because you made it sound like the Jews invaded summer.
 
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