Syria ready to launch 'surprise' retaliation attack against Israel

[Dolfagr]

Syria has threatened to retaliate for an Israeli air strike and its ally Iran said there will be repercussions for the Jewish state over the attack.


 Syria declared it was ready to launch a "surprise" retaliation attack against Israel yesterday as Bashar al-Assad's allies Russia and Iran both condemned air strikes on a suspected weapons shipment near Damascus.

As tensions mounted following the Israeli attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Obama administration warned Syria not to transfer weapons to Hizbollah, thereby "further destabilising the region".

Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul-Karim Ali, said Damascus "has the option and the capacity to surprise in retaliation" and that it was up to the relevant authorities to prepare the time and place for action.

The foreign ministry in Damascus earlier lodged an official complaint with the United Nations over the attack – part of a wave of incursions that was launched to destroy an alleged weapons shipment to Hizbollah.

The bombing campaign on military targets around Damascus and the Lebanese border came after weeks of growing concern within Israel that Syria's disintegration poses a direct threat to its security.




The Lebanese government reported a series of violations of its airspace by Israeli jets on Tuesday and United Nations observers said the action continued into the early hours of Wednesday.

Initially the raid was reported to have involved a convoy carrying air defence systems across the border, but Syrian state television said yesterday that two people were killed in a raid on the Jamraya scientific research centre near Damascus.

Israeli leaders have vowed to prevent Hizbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese terror outfit, gaining access to Syrian missiles and to ensure that stockpiles of chemical weapons do not fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.

But the attacks have nonetheless been criticised as a unilateral action that violated the UN charter.

Officials in Moscow, which has maintained an alliance with the Assad regime despite the descent into civil war and widespread international condemnation, expressed "deep concern" over the attacks.

"If this information is confirmed, then we are dealing with unprovoked attacks on targets on the territory of a sovereign state that violates the UN Charter and is unacceptable, and whatever the motivation, is not justified," the foreign ministry said. "We are taking immediate steps to clarify the situation in all its details."

Iran's deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, warned the "Zionist regime's attack on the outskirts of Damascus will have grave consequences".

The Arab League also spoke out against Israel's intervention in the conflict even though it has suspended Damascus.

"This Israeli aggression is a clear violation of the territory of an Arab state and of its sovereignty, going against the UN charter and the rules of international law," said Nabil al-Arabi.

Former Israeli security officials said an apparent shipment to Hizbollah forced the country to take action. Experts believe it is likely that action was taken against military targets to send a message that Israel was ready to act when dangers emerged.

"Wednesday's strike indicates that Israel's concern has been vindicated. Russian systems have been transferred to Hizbollah," said Brig Gen Sholo Brom, a former director general of strategy for the Israeli military.

"I have just now seen information describing a combined strike. The target was an institution close to Damascus where trucks were being loaded with arms bound for Hizbollah. The convoy that was attacked was almost certainly driving away from this institution."

Tzachi Hanegbi, an Israeli MP allied to Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, said air strikes are not enough to counter the threat of Hizbollah obtaining sophisticated weaponry from Syria.

"Israel's preference would be if a Western entity would control these weapons systems," Hanegbi said. "But because it appears the world is not prepared to do what was done in Libya or other places, then Israel finds itself like it has many times in the past facing a dilemma that only it knows how to respond to."

Michael Ellemann, a director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies think tank, said the incident showed Damascus may be bartering its most sophisticated weapons technologies for help from Hizbollah and Iran to fight the rebels.

"Israel is engaged in a kind of messaging to Iran that it is prepared to take steps against Iran's proxies as the Syrian regime collapses," he said.

Russian commentators said the air strike represented the intervention of Israel in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the rebels. One security blogger said that Israel was now lined up with states, such as Turkey and Qatar against Russia in seeking the removal of the Assad regime.

"Israel has decided to intervene in the Syrian conflict on the side of the opposition," wrote one commentator.

US vice president, Joe Biden, will discuss the situation in Syria with Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, and Moaz al-Khatib, leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition at a meeting in Munich tomorrow (SAT).



Shit just got serious(?)

[Zaila]

Syria declared it was ready to launch a "surprise" retaliation attack against Israel

Saying that they are ready to launch a suprise retaliation against Israel... I guess that who ever hired the person claiming this must have thought he was smarter then he really is.. Not much of a suprise anymore.

[Duel]

I guess that who ever hired the person claiming this must have thought he was smarter then he really is.. Not much of a suprise anymore.

So true.. 

[battle]

isreal might just have ignited the powder keg lol prepare for the worst

[Mikal]

WW3 time. :pop:

[[WS]Jacob]

WW3 time. :pop:

I really hope not..

[Mikal]

I really hope not..

It's ok I protect you!

[battle]

WW3 time. :pop:

it all depends on what iran/syria does to isreal they hold the cards now.

[[WS]Jacob]

It's ok I protect you!

Assemble the AAF. Critical.

[Wolfe]

isreal might just have ignited the powder keg lol prepare for the worst

Israel can easily defeat Syria, Russia won't risk getting a WW3 going on yet, so they'll watch from afar and supply Syria with arms secretly, Iran has a fucked up dictator which will jump at the opportunity to war agaisnt Israel and the US, and then the US will intervene, NATO will join in the war, and Syria and Iran will get ultimately fucked.


Didn't they learn this already from Iraq ? They thought they could show some force by taking Kuwait, and then they got buttraped by every single NATO country.

[battle]

Israel can easily defeat Syria, Russia won't risk getting a WW3 going on yet, so they'll watch from afar and supply Syria with arms secretly, Iran has a f**ked up dictator which will jump at the opportunity to war agaisnt Israel and the US, and then the US will intervene, NATO will join in the war, and Syria and Iran will get ultimately f**ked.


Didn't they learn this already from Iraq ? They thought they could show some force by taking Kuwait, and then they got buttraped by every single NATO country.

the thing is russia have stated if US touches iran they will come aswell. ( and isreal )

[Mikal]

Assemble the AAF. Critical.

it all depends on what iran/syria does to isreal they hold the cards now.

And once they start, everyone will get involved.

Israel can easily defeat Syria, Russia won't risk getting a WW3 going on yet, so they'll watch from afar and supply Syria with arms secretly, Iran has a f**ked up dictator which will jump at the opportunity to war agaisnt Israel and the US, and then the US will intervene, NATO will join in the war, and Syria and Iran will get ultimately f**ked.

Before NATO joins, Russia will side with Iran and then WW3 will start for sure.

the thing is russia have stated if US touches iran they will come aswell. ( and isreal )

Exactly.

WW3! Screams!

[Cofiliano]

I've said it once, and I'll say it again;

World War 3 has been going on for the last 5-6 years, the only difference is that the countries are not using arms and bombs, yet something far more powerful and deadly, economy.

The 'wars, conflicts, attacks, and invasions' are just a scenarios to empty a bit, the loaded hangers of the arms developing Corporations who're mostly under official or unofficial control(or other way around) by the Government of USA mostly, but by Russia, China, and other superpowers as well, who needs a 'market' for their 'products', that's all what global politics are about, and nothing else.

[[BC]Teramo]

I've said it once, and I'll say it again;

World War 3 has been going on for the last 5-6 years, the only difference is that the countries are not using arms and bombs, yet something far more powerful and deadly, economy.

The 'wars, conflicts, attacks, and invasions' are just a scenarios to empty a bit, the loaded hangers of the arms developing Corporations who're mostly under official or unofficial control(or other way around) by the Government of USA mostly, but by Russia, China, and other superpowers as well, who needs a 'market' for their 'products', that's all what global politics are about, and nothing else.

So True

[Wolfe]

And once they start, everyone will get involved.
Before NATO joins, Russia will side with Iran and then WW3 will start for sure.
Exactly.

WW3! Screams!

Do you really think Russia is dumb enough to get into a fight basically alone agaisnt every single NATO nation ? It's asking to be fucked, they've said the same about Libya and other countries, and they never went in to side with them before, all they do is supply 'em with equipment and hope for the best.