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Russian Mig Buzzes Israel After Attack on Syria
The Syrian announcement of an Israeli air strike on a military site near Damascus Wednesday, Jan. 30, drew strong condemnation from Moscow the next day: “Such action if confirmed would amount to unacceptable military interference in the war-ravaged country,” said the statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry Thursday. “If this information is confirmed, then we are dealing with unprovoked attacks on targets on the territory of a sovereign country, which blatantly violate the UN Charter and is unacceptable, no matter the motives to justify it.”
Israel has made no comment on the Damascus statement which described in detail an Israeli air strike against a “military research institute” near the capital. Witnesses say it was a plant for manufacturing “unconventional weapons.” The facility was destroyed and two staff members killed.
Lebanese sources later reported a Russian Mig-31 fighter had crossed over Sinai Wednesday in the direction of Israel. It veered west over the Mediterranean after encountering an Israeli warning not to intrude into its air space and continued flying over Lebanon.
debkafile’s military sources say that the only external military force in the eastern Mediterranean region is a fleet of 18 Russian warships, which includes landing-craft – among the largest in the Russian Navy – with 2,000 marines aboard.
According to various Middle East sources, the Syrian report of an Israeli air strike has touched off high military alerts across the region. Syria has put its Golan forces on the Israel border on combat readiness and the Lebanese and Jordanian armies are on alert. So too are the Russian fleet opposite Syria and the Lebanese army.
Our military sources report that Turkish units on the Syrian border are on high preparedness although Ankara played down the reports of the Israeli air strike in Syria, uncomfortable over the fact that the Israeli Air Force was the first external power to intervene directly in the Syrian conflict.
So too are the US air force units stationed at the Turkish Incerlik air base, the US special forces deployed at the Jordanian Mafraq air facility and the American, German and Dutch Patriot missile interceptors deployed in Turkey opposite Syria. Israel has been on high alert since last week.
The prevailing estimate in military and intelligence circles in Washington and NATO capitals is that the Israeli air attack on the Syrian military site near Damascus was but the opening shot for the coming round of military blows they expect to be exchanged in the near future between Israel, Syria and Hizballah, with Iran possibly waiting in the wings for a chance to pitch in.
7 Comments on "Russian Mig Buzzes Israel After Attack on Syria"
GregT on Fri, 1st Feb 2013 4:30 am
Just think, without fossil fuels they would still be fighting with sticks and stones. Just like children.
BillT on Fri, 1st Feb 2013 4:38 am
Iran will be sabotaging Israeli internet and communications systems. The big boys are all sitting by waiting for Syria to respond, but they will be waiting for a long time, maybe. Another attack from Israel will bring them in and Russia and eventually China will be against the West. Could this be the straw that breaks the Us back? The beginning of WW3? It’s going to be an interesting and hot summer in more ways than one.
Arthur on Fri, 1st Feb 2013 4:53 am
Difficult to see how this can end without desaster. Scenarios:
1. Assad falls: muslim brotherhood Sunnis will slaughter all those who supported Assad, Alawites, Christians, Kurds, a scenario like in Iraq, that 150,000 American occupiers could not prevent. Syria probably will disintegrate. Turkey could go after the Kurds. Israel will go after Hisbollah. These will go down causing maximum damage to Israel.
2. Assad holds to power. Maybe his strategy will be to concentrate on a territory he can hold and accept a split of the country, like in Iraq or Yugoslavia. Assad as the Milosevic of Syria.
I do not understand what Israel tries to gain. They are going to miss Assad like they miss Mubarak. They could live well with the Assad clan for decades.
DC on Fri, 1st Feb 2013 5:46 am
The US never had any intention of preventing the locals from killing each other. In fact, they pursued policies on both the battlefield and in the political arena to insure that is exactly what happened. If Syria were to fall, there would be killing fields all over again. For the US and Isreal, it would be a way of punishing the people of Syria, after the fact, for resisting Amerikan hegemony and not simply surrendering like the US expected\wanted them to.
Again, if and lets hope not, the US has it way again, the order will go out to its Al-Queada Arab mercenaries to ‘do whatever they wish to whoever they wish’, so long as the pipelines, ports, airports and other vital infrastructure remain seriously left alone.
However, water treatment plants, hospitals, public spaces etc, will be open season for Al-Q to teach the Syrians a lesson about resisting corporate power.
Lets us hope, for everyone sakes the US is stopped before the scenario above becomes the new normal for the Syrian people.
Arthur on Fri, 1st Feb 2013 10:58 am
Chuck Hagel hearings:
http://youtu.be/XiXTyDnA2TI
Graham asks Hagel who he meant when he said that Congress is intimidated by The Lobby. Name one name. The real answer is: everybody. But Hagel cannot say that while the world is watching over his shoulder, so he gets into trouble. Hagel is not the Putin America needs. As Buchanan says, Congress is Israeli occupied territory.
Hubbertsfreak on Fri, 1st Feb 2013 6:24 pm
US policy is to keep the Middle East at war so they do not develop oil sucking infrastructure like Saudi Arabia, who now use over 3mbd internally.
BillT on Sat, 2nd Feb 2013 8:52 am
At the rate that domestic use is escalating in all oil exporting countries, while production is shrinking, within 10 years little, if any, will be exported.