Initially reported as a “car bomb” against a checkpoint near the Damascus military airport at al-Mazza, Syrian media outlets are now saying the massive explosion was the result of an Israeli air strike.
There’s been no official confirmation, though indeed there still hasn’t been from the last two Israeli attacks on Syria. Witnesses from the upscale neighborhood that overlooks the air base reported that they believed the incident was clearly a missile strike.
The Israeli military has refused comment on the incident, though that’s not uncommon either. The statement noted that a rebel faction claimed the strike, though myriad rebels claim credit for incidents they didn’t actually do.
10 soldiers were reported killed in the Mazza strike, and other reports estimated 20 casualties overall, though final figures may not be known for some time. If confirmed it would be the third Israeli attack on Syria in recent months.
Look people: Israel is up to its neck for this war to continue.. So is "leaders" the "owners" of the USA Democratic Party.., Bill Clinton and McCain…! Non of these people want any peace unless when the Saudis bandits and mercenaries are totally defeated and on the the run to turkey.., as they are now.., and that the General "ordinance" in turkey has resigned.
The Syrian peole should not allow this to happen where is the equiptment that Russia promised to stop this muderous attack.
Are you surprised?
strike them back ..syria…dam it
Asssssssssssssssad,Lion in Arabic, only kills his own.
And where is the vaunted Syrian air defense systems YET AGAIN?
Anyone who thinks Syria is going to be able to effectively resist an air campaign by the US and NATO is living in a fool's paradise.
And an air campaign is exactly what is in the cards by end of this year. And anyone who thinks the US will just "shoot from Jordan" is a military idiot. It will be a full-scale campaign using assets from the entire region. Once the Syrian air defenses are taken out – and S-300's from Russia will NOT change that equation – and the US can immobilize at least large concentrations of Syria forces, Israel will use the situation to attack Hizballah in Lebanon through the Bekaa Valley.
This is a strategic necessity for Israel in order for Israel to have a relatively "cheap" Iran war. Therefore it's going to happen – with Obama's full blessing.
As Pepe Escobar says in his latest piece in Asia Times, the notion of Obama as a "reluctant warrior" in Syria is absolutely nonsense. This entire crisis has been planned since at least the Libyan air campaign.
This latest unprovoked attack upon Syria from Israel reminds us that the Jewish State (and its operatives in Washington) are busy orchestrating Washington's next war.
Israel is committed to fomenting chaos and destruction throughout the Middle East. Why? These US-subsidized wars decimate Israel's foes and allow Israel to continue it expansion of 'Jews Only' colonies in Palestine. At the while, Israel is strengthening its own economy while US blood and money are squandered on these never-ending conflicts.
I added a comment; it was not included; in it I accused the Ditz of connivance with Israel, pointing also to the reasons (the spin antiwar piuts on certain events involving Israel); only paranoids or persons in bad faith could take what I said as racism (a legitimate reason for exclusion). So I ask, What do you have to hide, comrades?
[moderator’s note: I’ve added “malicious libel of Antiwar.com and/or its personnel” to “legitimate reasons for exclusion” of comments, and chronic cases of same to legitimate reasons for banning – TLK]
I conclude that to shoot the message you have decided to shoot the (allegedly malicious) messenger. Odd. Not a sign of integrity. It is paradoxical that one is not allowed to say in a blog what one would be PERFECTLY free to say on the floor of a democratic assembly. If constructive and appropriate, a moderator’s comment on the messenger would ALSO have to enter into the message and the MERITS of the argument set forth. It might be better in this case to have no mediator’s comment at all. So readers can mull over the question without an interested party breathing down their neck. It is an opportunity I think they have been denied.