A massive explosion at a Latakia air base in northwestern Syria was the result of an Israeli attack, according to White House officials. The site contained shipments of Russian anti-aircraft missiles.
The first reports on the strike came out of al-Arabiya, and they claimed a second, still-unconfirmed strike in Damascus as well. Casualties are unclear, but Syria’s state media insisted there were no injuries.
Lebanese news outlets reported Israeli warplanes violating their airspace earlier Wednesday afternoon, and they left the airspace north of Tripoli, heading out to sea, in the early evening. After that, the warplanes attacked Latakia from the sea.
The reports claim that the Latakia base “possibly contained” Russian SA-8 missiles, and that those missiles were potentially headed to Hezbollah, though neither of these assertions has been proven. Israel has repeatedly attacked Syria over the past year.
Israel = deranged and aggressive nuclear State with control over Washington.
Is this not a recipe for disaster?
The Zionists have been attacking their neighbors at least since the 1920s.
There will never be peace in the middle east until these land thieves are driven from the face of the earth.
How peaceful.
Those missiles were more than likely headed into Syria. They aren't man portable and require a launcher. Syria seems to have come under IDF air attack, why would they want to ship them out before using them to defend themselves? Hezbolleh doesn't need an area protection weapon anyway, the Lebanese defence forces look after that. (Har de har har)
"Hezbollah was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and was primarily formed to offer resistance to the Israeli occupation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
Israeli aggression is therefore justified, because Hezbollah opposes Israeli aggression.
Wait, what?
Guess CBS evening news did not report that attack. Their report covered the "increasing "number of Iranians fighting in Syria.
But then CBS news has had for Mr. Assad for years.
We all know yankee advisors are training insurgents in Jordan with Hussein`s blessing using Qatar/UAE/turkey to funnel arms to overthrow the Assad government America started all this for her zionist baby two years ago.
The Star Tribune local Minneapolis St Paul internet site has relegated this major bombing of strategic Syrian air defenses to the bottom of their site. It looks like major media is prepared to ignore this incident as routine intervention by Israel. So far.
If Russian interests or materials were destroyed by Israel attacks in Syria, three Russian hydrogen bombs on Tel Aviv could send the right message.
Well, I know you'd love to see Jews getting killed. But Palestinians would unfortunately also be killed. Unlike Jews, their blood is not cheap.
Obviously the UN Charter's ban on the unilateral use of non-defensive force by one member nation against another member nation has no application to Israel or to its guardian the US. Neither nation has any regard for its treaty obligations under the UN Charter, nor does either nation have anything but contempt for the expressed opinion of the rest of the world's nations — as witnessed by last Tuesday's UN General Assembly vote of 188-2 (the US and Israel) condemning the US embargo of Cuba as illegal and inhumane. As a US citizen, I am sure that I share with many fellow Americans and many Israelis a deep shame for the arrogant, immoral and illegal conduct of our governments.
Nothing more can anyone expect from the FCM and not a squeak out of bonkeymoon.
It never happened. Stop quoting Ynet and Times of Israel, these are cheap propaganda outlets that create an echo box of fanciful " attacks" and "unnamed officials", etc. just to raise the temperature in Syria. Don't cooperate in the mind games of the dying fraternity of Israel
If Syria or Russia fails to react to this 'act of war' by Israel, then Syria is finished and Russia will have no standing the Middle East.
Provided that there was one. Fog of diffeent colors.
Will someone PLEASE flush Israel down the toilet!
Israel can't stand the threat of peace.
The alleged Zionazi attack on Lattakia can be seen in the light of previous attacks which occurred when SAA made heavy advances on the ground hence, the tribal fascist pariah is obviously supporting their mercenary ground forces, trying to boost their morale. More desperately so as it´s sugar-daddys hands currently are tied and committed to a non-violent approach. Any prospect of peace and certainly in this scale with Iran involved, in the region means, as we all know, a more or less slow death to the bloody Zionazi occupation of Palestine.
It speaks volumes that the only ally the zionazi squatting entity has who openly support more head-chopping's, bombings and killings are the medieval child molesters in Saudi Arabia and to some degree, Turkey. More hit and run tactics in the same cowardly manner is to be expected as long as these powers finds themselves pushed up against the wall methinks.
Should Syria engage? No, I don't think so, not more than they covertly does anyway in order not to give the Zionazis any excuse to force the US to come to the rescue. The SAA should continue to focus on the war on the ground in which they are doing a splendid job and the missile forces should stay on alert and only respond to direct attacks on vital targets from across the border, who not can be excused for being "Hezbollah depots" and leave the rest to the politicians and Russia. That said, I don´t think anything was hit or destroyed, or indented to get destroyed, in this blast since it´s more likely a test run for future attacks from Al-Qaeda`s jewish airforce and a rat-supporting media stunt.
Mikhas.
Just another excuse by the apartheid state of Israel attacking a sovereign nation without any provocation, then justified the attack by blaming Hezbollah which their friends considered a terrorist organization. Why would Assad spend all that money on anti- aircraft missiles to give to Hezbollah?
Israel is nothing but another US military base and the President of Syria is nothing but a puppet of the corporate rich who rule Empire USA. Any other theory makes no sense.
Boy, it didn't take the Israelis long – as soon as the word went out that Syria's chemical weapons sources were destroyed leaving Syria somewhat powerless to resist, the Zionists struck. Will this weasel country be long in joining in?
There seems to be some geographic confusion in this article. Since when has Israel an airbase near Tripoli in Libya? Why would they violate Lebanese airspace if they can hit Latakia (Syria) right from the sea? (They could fly to Israel just over the sea!) How come that the Russian navy and Syrian air defense would not have protected the port? Well, just asking.
Let's see… multiple violations of Lebanese airspace followed by unprovoked attacks on Syrian military targets? You've go to hand it to the Israelis- they must get up VERY early in morning to think of so many ways to further isolate themselves from the world community.