Another weekend, another Israeli strike on Syria. This time the result was that something huge blew up:
Syrian military positions in the province of Hama and Aleppo were targeted Sunday by a series of strikes that caused an explosion reportedly strong enough to trigger an earthquake observed by neighboring countries.
Citing an unnamed military source, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported that military positions in villages of Hama and Aleppo were hit by a still unidentified rocket attack at around 10:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. EDT), causing loud explosions. Al Jazeera said one of its correspondants confirmed explosions at a Syrian military base at Al-Bahouth mountain in southern Hama.
Bassam Jaara, a supporter of the Syrian opposition, shared to social media pictures of what appeared to be flames and smoke rising from the Syrian countryside, saying “a large number” of casualties were incurred by an attack on what was believed to be an Iranian military position at “mountain 47” in southern Hama.
It appears that the strike targeted Iranian surface-to-surface missiles. The resulting explosion measured 2.6 on the Richter scale.
And here’s video of the explosion:
Here’s another video. The quality is fairly crappy, but you can see the secondary explosions the main explosion set off, suggesting that whatever the Israelis hit was filled with munitions:
It’s got to be frustrating to be the Islamic Republic of Iran. You spend all that time and effort schlepping massive amounts of ordinance into Syria, only to see Israel blow it all up with ease.
And once again Russian air defense systems were as good at keeping Israel out of Syria’s airspace as Jerry Seinfeld’s door was at keeping Kramer out of his apartment…
Tags: Hama, Iran, Israel, Jihad, Middle East, Military, Russia, Syria
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Eighteen months from now, say by Labor Day ’09, Putin’s Russian will have perforce abandoned Assad’s crummy li’l satrapy; extant from 1979, Teheran’s rampant mullah-dullah’s will be a bug spot on Israel’s windshield; Xi Jinjang will be seeking ocean real estate elsewhere, while Kim Jong-un promotes McDonald’s outlets in Pyongyang as Seoul and Tokyo look on askance.
As for the deadbeat EU, spear-carriers from NAFTA and TPP used-car types on down, foreign exchange markets’ cry will be “Look out below!”
Rarely in history has so much been accomplished by one man, so soon. What this says is, from c. 1950 on the egregiously collectivist/Statist postwar period has been a House of Cards, of Mirrors, of self-dealing kleptocrats blighting everything they touched.
Little do they know, our Generation Wuss born c. 1988 – 2004 has terminally marginalized itself already. As every craven, ignorant, impossibly phony standard they embrace topples into dust, perhaps one in five will pull their weight. For the rest… you had your opportunity, and played dead. Now it’s too late: Goodbye, good riddance, bong it up before the Iceman Cometh.
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