Another anti-Syrian Lebanese Christian leader assassinated
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A bomb rocked a Christian suburb east of the Lebanese capital Wednesday, killing an anti-Syrian lawmaker and six other people, security officials said.
Antoine Ghanem is the eighth prominent anti-Syrian figure assassinated since 2005.
Ghanem, 64, a member of the right-wing Christian Phalange Party, was targeted by the bomb, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The Voice of Lebanon radio station, which is owned by the Phalange party, confirmed Ghanem’s death. The identities of the others killed were not immediately known.
The attack came six days before parliament was scheduled to meet to elect a new president in a vote expected to be deeply divisive.
Three of the slain lawmakers have been from the U.S.-backed majority coalition, reducing its margin in parliament.
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This on a day when Iran promised a response to the “zionist threat” on Qods day.
I also find it interesting that the news released yesterday information on a Syrian SCUD that blew up with chemical weapons on-board, killing the Syrian and Iranian military crews attempting to deploy the new warhead.
Is this the response they are planning?
FROM 2006 “NOT AGAIN” – link above to the right:
Did they get away with that one? Will they get away with this one? When is the next one?
STOP THEM NOW. Go ‘Israel’ on them today, bomb ‘em surgically like they are a nuke factory. They must know who did this.
Pray for Lebanon friends… the devil is loose, again.
I have had the privilege of working with the Israeli Air Force and when the lease finally comes off hell is coming to breakfast. Don’t want to be on the receiving end of that one.
I would rather our Government do something to punish Syria and Iran for their interference in the security of post-invasion Iraq. With yesterday’s statements by Iran that they have target 600 missiles on US forces in Iraq what the heck is Bush waiting for? It is time to finish the war Iran declared on the US on 4 Nov 79 when they first broke international law and seized our embassy. Pinpoint attacks using conventional munitions could destroy the political leadership and degrade their military capabilities in less then 72 hours to allow the oppressed masses of both countries to rise up against their dictators and decide their countries future.
It is time to protect our forces in Iraq. Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
So very sad and horrible. Thanks for reporting it, MM. Please keep us updated.
NO MORE O.J. PLEASE
Nevertheless, this will never make it into news coverage. Why with all the
O.J. hysteria and all, it’s 1995 redux.
What will it take for the west to realize that Syria and Iran need to be reined in….Syria has been killing anyone who resists their heavy handed actions in Lebanon. Iran has been killing American servicement for years in Iraq. As an ex-military man, and now a defense contractor, I know we have a lot of munitions sitting just waiting to be used. We don’t need to send in one soldier…just launch/bomb a few hundred targets….the only thing those people understand is power. Drop a little power on them and they’ll be too busy rebuilding to keep up these shenanigans..
Also let slip the Spectres, Eagles, Falcons, Hornets, Spirits, Raptors and Lancers of war.
The Iranians and Syrians have purchased very similar air-defense radar systems from Russia. The Isrealis managed to penetrate that defensive net with non-stealthy IAF F-15I aircraft.
They will never see the U.S. Air Force coming, remember Baghdad, 1991?
To quote Ozzy, “It’s just a shot in the dark”:)
I realize that we in the U.S. have a ‘don’t kill heads of state, etc’ but an Qadaffi type hit on Syria might just rein in this a’hole like it did in Lybia.
Waiting for a response from Pelosi and Kucinich. I am sure they got the Syrian dictators’ back on this one.
Another thing, after the Russians were bragging about supposedly one-upping America with their “Father of all Bombs” stunt, I saw Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney USAF (ret.) on FNC reminding us that we have a newly developed 24,000lb. “deep earth penetrator” that puts all of the underground installations of our enemies at risk. Look out Baby Assad, and I’minthemoodforjihad, we’ve got your number. On speed dial:)
Well, the muslims are picking off the Christians one by one.
Maybe because the Christians won’t agree to install any footwashing sinks in the airpots.
Kindof wierd, huh? The Christians don’t do that kind of thing. I wonder why…
AP News release: (Yeah… Right…)
While the United States deplores actions that are or/mimic terrorists acts, we also deplore acts which are’terroristic’. In that regard, we hold heads of state guilty of acts committed by their country’s and will respond directly to them and any agency of their country deemed to have committed these acts. (Statement by POTUS and U.S. State Department.)
On September 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm, Boomer said:
Don’t forget, all of this mess was started by Dhimmi Carter. No one ever seems to mention his name in connection with the Iranian madmen.
Just a quick question. My recollection is that, after the last anti-Syrian MP was blown up, it left the balance of power in the Lebanese Parliament on a knife’s edge. The Hezbollah representatives and their sympathizers, were very close to being able to take over the Cabinet. It was for that reason that (a) many thought that the anti-Syrian MP’s were being murdered (a sort of slow coup using murder in synch with the Lebanese constitution) and (b) a lot of lebanese MP’s left the country.
Can anyone say what this latest killing does to the balance of power in the Parliament and Cabinet?
Well, we do have a very effective one-on-one jihad stopper. It’s not called the HELLFIRE for nothing!
On September 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm, Boomer said:
I think we could wipe out the present government in less than 72 hours. We should have our weapons continually trained on Ach-medininijihad and the mullahs, and the instant they come into our sights, we should eliminate them from the earth, much like we would eliminate cancer from someone’s body.
Calling them “scum” would be an insult to the scum.
Get this statement from the whackiest genocidal regime on the block:
On September 19th, 2007 at 1:42 pm, Brian72 said:
Hellfire is exactly what those demons will get, if they continue in their wicked ways.
Of course, Jesus died for their sins as well as for ours, and so if they will stop sinning and acknowledge Jesus as Lord, He is merciful enough to forgive them.
God doesn’t have any pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his sin and live.
While they are here on this earth, we will have to deal with them ourselves. This is from the link above, what HELLFIRE means to our military:
The irony of the name of this weapon system is quite delicious. It’s got quite a tally of jihadi kills already, and as the Doritos commercial used to say, Keep crunchin’, we’ll make more!
Assad is a gangster. Not only does he carry out contract hits but the reason he wants Lebanon back is so that his cronies can milk it dry economically and his security services can extort protection money from Lebanese businesses.
Syria is not a nation. It is a crime family.
This just would have just been another headline for me before I read “Because They Hate”.
If you get the chance, it’s a must read. She grew up in Lebanon before radical jihad reared it’s ugly head. And when jihad did rear it’s ugly head, it’s mind blowing what she went through, all pre-9/11. They were forgotten and not paid any attention by anyone, except in some cases Israel. I thought I had Middle East in proper context, but I was so very wrong. Gabriel’s story really brings it home and really widens the scope.
I would like nothing better then to see Iran get nailed to the wall. I had a lot to do with the set-up prior to Desert 1 (rescue attempt during Iranian hostage crisis) and not sure what I can talk about from the operational end to this day. Too many people got their fingers into the pie and made a simply plan way too complex and forgot to tell the operators what the mission was going in, but the upside we learned a lot from the failure. Kind of always stuck in my craw not being able to pull it off.
I think we could probably knock them out sooner than 72 hours, just trying to get back in a mission planning mindset (always plan conservatively to protect your forces going in). Also was a mission planner for the KC-10 support of the 2 F-117s that dropped their munitions during “Operation Just Cause.” One of the last operational missions I was able to participate in when I was medically disqualified for flight duty. I kind of miss those days a lot.
Brian72…LOL
I’ve learned about that fiasco in the desert recently. It was totally FUBARed from the getgo. I bet that was hard for you guys when it went up in flames like that. Our people were being held by barbarians, and we should have got them back by force. Jimmah the Peanut Humanitarian screwed up everything during the whole hostage crisis, and I just hate that we lost some of our best operators in that disaster.
However, the military did learn from it, and now we’ve got some real serious gear in Special Operations Command that could do that mission today, probably with less manpower.
If there were to be strikes against Iran, there might be SOF guys on the ground with lasers on target to ensure very precise hits, given the importance of that mission. Somebody has planned it all out by now, deep in the Pentagon.
Thanks for serving Boomer, I’ve got AF in my family, past present and future.
Thanks Brian 72. In my family we have 56 years of Air Force service. Not bad considering it just turned 60 this week.
I am partial to the Warthog myself. If they had shown me a picture of that plane while I was in high school they would have had me inlist right on the spot!
The US is still piddling around with Condi Rice.
Israel will have to hit Syria, precipitating an Iran strike-back.
Wonder if she is going to cancel her upcoming trip or if she is going to try and pacify Israel into not acting for the sake of preserving “peace” with the animals of Palestine.
My road, if I ran the world: 25,000 sorties over Damascus- and let Iran watch. Destroy all of the Presidential Palaces. Destroy all government buildings and military training facilities. Wipe out all of the commercial transportation hubs. Decimate the airport in Damascus and every road, rail, and donkey path in or out of there. Eliminate all insurgent strongholds on the Syrian border with Iraq- and take out all of Syrias tanks. Let Israel hit them on and around the Golan Heights.
Tit for tat Hassad, you asshat coward.
Interesting airplane to refuel the A-10 Warthog, they are peddling as fast as they can and we were just above stall speed. Not too bad in the KC-135 (laying down on your stomach), but in the KC-10 if the Boom Operator did not have a seat belt you would have a heck of a time staying in your seat.
It is the ultimate platform for close air support. When you positively absolutely need to kill it up close with pinpoint accuracy they do deliver. Loved their motto too, “Go ugly early.”
If we add up the casualties and costs, it seems apparent that Jewhad has been more destructive than Jihad, with about 100,000 medical evacuees coming out of Iraq (amputees, mental cases, etc.), 500,000 Iraqi deaths (taking an average of estimates), and a cost of $3-4 trillion so far(factoring in veterans’ benefits over the next thirty years).
Maybe we should give Islam a try as it seems to be healthier than Evangelical Zionism.
Let Israelis, neocons, and fanatical Evangelicals fight the Jewhad and bring American boys and girls home.
Boomer,
56 of 60 years. Very impressive. I am forever in your debt.
I’m third generation Army combat veteran but didn’t make it a career. I had an offer to fly Cobra’s for the MD National Guard after Vietnam but being a cop with 4 small children, my wife vetoed that idea.
I hope President Bush folows through on his claim to deny sanctuary to terrorists by selective targeting in Iran. Loose the dogs of war!!! Let’s get this over with now.
Trinitytim,
It takes a very special woman to put up with an aviators life style. I was able to meet my soul mate while she was in the Air Force too. She was an Admin Specialist in the U-2 squadron at Beale AFB when we met and can’t believe she traded down to a Boom Operator when she actually had a shot at couple of the U-2 pilots that were head over heels with her also. She had a way of being able to deal very well when I was off in harms way. She told me she would only get upset if the Wing Commander and Chaplin showed up at the door and then I was in big trouble for getting myself killed. Such a great woman I managed to stay faithful to her for 25 years of marriage now. That’s saying a lot when looking at the behavior of some of the guys I flew with. We weren’t called “crew dogs” for nothing (LOL).
Well God bless you Boomer. You are a special man.
I’m a little older than you but my special girl picked me 36 years ago and stood by me through thick and thin. She put up with the Homicide call outs at 2 AM, the 36 hour days, working Christmas and other holidays, and even the phone calls from the Dr. letting her know that I wouldn’t be home at the end of my shift that day and that there would be a pollice car there shortly to take her and the kids to the hospital.
I became a commercial helicopter pilot and flew regularly for about 20 years . Then my health started to decline and I grounded myself about 4 years ago.
Anyway, I appreciate you guys and all that you put up with. You are all heroes in my book. I owe you a dinner too if we ever bump into one another.
Take care my friend.
#30
Where did you ever get your numbers? You aren’t serious, are you?
Perhaps instead of reading leftist propaganda pages as rote truth, you should take the time to actually investigate your facts. Especially with this wonderful tool called the internet
100,000 casualties?!? You do realize that is almost 60% of the current fighting force, right? And that number is roughly 4 times the total American casualties listed in the Dole-Shalala report, with almost 80% of those returning to battle with 72 hours. And that contradicts the TOTAL number of air evacs that left the theater of battle, which currently numbers just below 11,000.
And $3-4 trillion? Are you factoring in all the care for all beneficiaries, and the costs of the multitude of efforts to upgrade Federal Health Care Technologies? Please prove your numbers.
Or maybe you could tell me, in your opinion, what cause would be worth fighting for?
Do you really want to give up your freedom of speech, choice and religion? How about drugs, alcohol, and sex? Shall we repeal the freedoms we endowed to women? Or how about your rights to vote, have a job, own property, choose your living, get an education, have pets, eat what you want to eat, live without slavery or indentured servitude, listen to music, watch TV, go to a movie or a play, not starve, or even live?
Because that is what the jihadists are willing to take away. You want Islam? Look at history (Iran hangs youths for having sex, and wearing tight clothes; Afghanistan under the Taliban banned music, took away books, banned women from speaking, education, or even showing themselves unaccompanied in public) before you ask so willingly to give up you freedoms again.
Alphonse..
With all due respect, you are an idiot. I can’t believe that you would prefer Islam over democracy. That is without a doubt, the dumbest statement I have ever read.
I’ll tell you what, go live in Iran for a few years and report back to us on the conditions in 2011, assuming you’re still alive. As for me, I will die before I surrender to Islam and I intend to take quite a few of them with me before I go.