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Kuros
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 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:51 am Post subject: Gunmen attack US Embassy in Syria |
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Gunmen attack US Embassy in Syria
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DAMASCUS: Four armed men, shouting religious slogans, tried to storm the United States embassy in Damascus Tuesday but the attack was repulsed and the four men were killed.
No diplomats in the embassy were injured, but a Syrian guard died in the ambush, said Syrian authorities. |
Aw, is Al Qaeda jealous of the attention Hezbollah was getting?
Any other theories? |
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dulouz
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: |
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Yea you beat me, I was going to post that but it'd look like I'm Islam obsessed. The Syrian guards beat them off and killed three of them.
The Syrians don't bother with Geneva Convention type rules.
To answer your question, no I don't have any theories. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Syrians, like a lot of people in this world, are under the impression Americans are a bunch of jerks?  |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| happeningthang wrote: |
| Syrians, like a lot of people in this world, are under the impression Americans are a bunch of jerks? |
Ermmm...maybe, but I have a feeling the French embassies in the much of the rest of the world would have been destroyed if that were the case. |
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daskalos
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| dulouz wrote: |
| The Syrian guards beat them off and killed three of them. |
Well that seems like an awfully accommodating thing to do before killing someone. Oh, sorry, I misread that.
But seriously, what struck me pleasantly was that it was Syrian guards who took care of this attack. As previous posts will testify, I am no apologist for Muslim terrorists or fanatics. This incident is, to me, an example of where we can draw the line between the actual threat and the hyped-up garbage we are fed. If I ate everything I was spoonfed by my government about Syria, I would not be able to grasp the idea that agents of the Syrian government thwarted this terrorist attack. As it is, I say, "Thank you, Syria, for your sacrifice in protecting sovereign US territory." |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Gunmen attack US Embassy in Syria |
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| Kuros wrote: |
Gunmen attack US Embassy in Syria
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DAMASCUS: Four armed men, shouting religious slogans, tried to storm the United States embassy in Damascus Tuesday but the attack was repulsed and the four men were killed.
No diplomats in the embassy were injured, but a Syrian guard died in the ambush, said Syrian authorities. |
Aw, is Al Qaeda jealous of the attention Hezbollah was getting?
Any other theories? |
not al-qaeda. this is too amateur. This is more akin to a postal worker going to work and taking out his frustrations in the most violent way possible. |
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khyber
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| The Syrian guards beat them off |
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buh-doom---ching! |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| happeningthang wrote: |
| Syrians, like a lot of people in this world, are under the impression Americans are a bunch of jerks? |
Ermmm...maybe, but I have a feeling the French embassies in the much of the rest of the world would have been destroyed if that were the case. |
That is so lame. How original. "Let's bash the French cause, well...umm. Err...They speak funny. Yeah, that's right. They speak funny and drink lots of wine." |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| dulouz wrote: |
Yea you beat me, I was going to post that but it'd look like I'm Islam obsessed. The Syrian guards beat them off and killed three of them.
The Syrians don't bother with Geneva Convention type rules.
To answer your question, no I don't have any theories. |
If you kill someone in self-defence, you broke the Geneva Convention? That's news to me. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| happeningthang wrote: |
| Syrians, like a lot of people in this world, are under the impression Americans are a bunch of jerks? |
Ermmm...maybe, but I have a feeling the French embassies in the much of the rest of the world would have been destroyed if that were the case. |
That is so lame. How original. "Let's bash the French cause, well...umm. Err...They speak funny. Yeah, that's right. They speak funny and drink lots of wine." |
But no comment about the American bit?
That's certainly original, right? You'll note my ribbing of the French in context. |
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ddeubel
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I would think that this attack and so many others are a sign that the U.S. should turn tack and do something different.
As I inferred to the wrath of others before, Al Qaeda WANTS and NEEDS attention. It is in this way, they are being fed by the U.S. tactics. James Fallows notes also recently in his Atlantic article "Declaring Victory" this same logic. He proposes that Bush just declare victory and get on with it, avoid the "war" rhetoric and making so many others join the fray and pick up a gun and grenades and attack "U.S." interests. As probably was the case in Syria, just kooks.
Makes sense. Always was, always will be 'terrorists" just different name. U.S. has made a point and the best thing now would be to disengage. They have more to lose then the enemy of a few thousand fighters at most ..... who now will grow and grow and grow with U.S. attacks and occupation and tactics....
interview with Fallows and after thought here at .
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200608u/airline-plot
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/transcripts/2006/aug/060820.fallows.html
Lots I disagree with but I said from the begining, the wrong way to deal with this would be head on........you are only "creating" Al Qaeda.
DD
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200608u/airline-plot |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:50 am Post subject: |
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I would think that this attack and so many others are a sign that the U.S. should turn tack and do something different.
As I inferred to the wrath of others before, Al Qaeda WANTS and NEEDS attention. It is in this way, they are being fed by the U.S. tactics. James Fallows notes also recently in his Atlantic article "Declaring Victory" this same logic. He proposes that Bush just declare victory and get on with it, avoid the "war" rhetoric and making so many others join the fray and pick up a gun and grenades and attack "U.S." interests. As probably was the case in Syria, just kooks. |
There's something to that. The 9-11 Commission reported that Clinton was well aware of the Osama threat, had been briefed, but did not mention him by name to avoid giving him the attention he wanted.
Bush has in some ways found Osama looming large to be convenient for his purposes, and its hard to be sympathetic to him when he continues to associate 9-11 with Iraq. |
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