Civil War in Syria

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and Two top clerics call on Lebanon’s Shiites to back Syrian uprising

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Paris backs Syria no-fly zone as fighting grows

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Iran Said to Send Troops to Bolster Syria

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a little good news Top Hezbollah operative in Syria killed

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Turkish PM says he does not want war with Syria

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(I'm going to take sh**t for this one)

Let me start by saying I DO NOT ADVOCATE THIS POSITION, but, playing devil's advocate here, Afghanistan did, it can be argued, go a long way towards hastening the Soviet Union's financial collapse.  Iran's economy is in the toilet.

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Blast tears through central Beirut

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And guess who the pro-Syrian/Iranian peeps in Lebanon blame?  DA JOOS! of course.

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And their ambulances make excellent troop transports.

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So, Israel bombed a Syrian arms convoy to Lebanon today... Syria agrees it was bombed in an act of aggression, but says it was a military research center near Damascus that was a rebel target:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/01/2013130165625330449.html

It was a convoy of missiles heading from Syria to southern Lebanon and the asshats there that will no doubt use them.  The latest rumor I heard was that they were actually Hezzies missiles in the first place and that they had taken to Syria for safe keeping and were moving them back because they weren't all that safe anymore.

The NY Times thinks the Hezzies might be bleeding themselves dry....well, maybe, we can certainly hope.

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He was talking about Israel and Syria being in a technical state of war for 40 years.

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A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard reportedly killed in Lebanon

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Well that's good news.  I like the "mercenaries of the Zionist regime" part.

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This fellow was Imadinnerjacket's personal representative in Lebanon.

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4 explosions inside Turkey on the border with Syria, Turkey moving air and ground forces to border.  Link shortly.

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better article on the earlier explosions...up to 42 dead now


...seems there's been another explosion...link....I believe that's saying there are 78 dead now

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Turkey arrests 'pro-Damascus' bombers

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Why would Syria want Turkey in the war? Color me skeptical.

Pro-Assad bombers doesn't necessarily mean bombers taking orders from Assad.  They could just be members of some pro-Assad militia lashing out at Turkey for aiding the rebels, not really thinking through the geopolitical consequences.

Possible, but a false flag operation is also possible,

Indeed.

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Russia's sending Assad advanced ASMs.

The Navy arm of the Free Syrian Army must be getting fierce!

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A regular Baghdad Bob this guy is.

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Russia sending S300 anti-aircraft weapons to Assad, nobody else likes this, Israel promises a response.

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To who other than bigots?

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To who other than bigots?

Uh, you do realize that most Muslims have an unfavorable opinion of Israel, right?

Yes and my point stands.  If you don't have a team to root for in this conflict and Israel blowing sh**t up causes you to pull for Assad, then yes, you're a bigot.

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Norks-have you tried firing some of your missiles into the sea?
Syria-it's more of an internal problem
Norks-have you tried an outdated political system that leads (as it always does) to mass starvation?  It's hard to rablle rouse on 79 calories a day
Syria-no, we don't hate money
Norks-don't you usually blame the Jews when you need to pull your people together
Syria-of course we tried that...that was the second, forth, seventh, eighth and ninth things we tried.  We even tried giving terrorists more missiles and the Jews blew up the building we hid them in, it's not fair really.  Do you know they have spy sharks and birds and sh**t? 
Norks-don't get me started!  Bad Korea is always trying to give our people information about how much better life is everywhere outside of Best Korea.

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Indeed.  It (Qusair) is much more important to Assad's boys than it was to the FSA.  It was good to deny it from them, but it wasn't a good place (or time) for a Waterloo.

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Iran to send 4000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria-link goes to Google search

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Indeed, that seems like the stupidest of plans.