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Reports of explosions and heavy gunfire. Syrian security is surrounding the embassy.
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"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal. -
Seems to have been successfully repelled: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world...rtner=homepagehttp://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support. -
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glad to see it was foiled
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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who may well have been expecting the surprise attack. Good to be prepared.Originally posted by MOBIUS
Foiled by the brave syrian security forces.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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This already seems to have been demoted from the number one news item, for example at The New York Times.
An armed attack on a US embassy would normally be quite a news item. The fact that it is not seen as bigger news seems to indicate that the world has become more violent and unpredictable, with the number of attacks remaining high.http://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support.Comment
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OTOH, it was four men with guns. That could happen pretty much anywhere.Comment
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Syrian authorities going into a frenzy and invading people's privacy, endangering civil liberties and brushing aside the concern for a society of invasive surveillance - just in order to prevent amateurish "terrorist" actions against some random building which happens to be an embassy.
It's all part of Bush's plan to stir up fears ahead of the mid-term elections.
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Syrians just scored some brownie points.Comment
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And the 9/11 highjackers were just 19 men with boxcuttersOriginally posted by Kuciwalker
OTOH, it was four men with guns. That could happen pretty much anywhere.
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I think it would have been much more notable before 9/11.http://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support.Comment
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Didnt an incident happen in the diplomatic zone in Damascus a few years ago?Originally posted by Kuciwalker
OTOH, it was four men with guns. That could happen pretty much anywhere.
Why does the Syrian branch of AQ always target foreign embassies? Despite past failures in doing so?
(yes, there was an attack in 2004)
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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You'd rather have them attack the Syrian Embassy in Damascus?Originally posted by lord of the mark
Why does the Syrian branch of AQ always target foreign embassies?Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...Comment
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Lets see, elsewhere in the Islamic world - Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, etc they tend to attack economic sites, esp tourist sites, also bank hqs, etc, etc. Only in Syria do they seem to specialize in repeated attacks on the diplo zone. Which just happens to be more heavily protected. Said attacks always fail.Originally posted by Hueij
You'd rather have them attack the Syrian Embassy in Damascus?
At what point does Occams razor suggest a black flag op by Syrian intell, absent other evidence?"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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**** Syria. And **** the US for deporting our citizens to Syria to be tortured.
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