Apparently 4 terrorists attempted to detonate a bomb that was placed in a van outside of the American embassy in Damascus. Reuters reports that,
Four men shouting religious slogans tried to blow up the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Tuesday but their car bomb failed to go off and Syrian security guards killed three of them in a shootout... .The nature of the Syrian regime makes such acts highly improbable unless they are sponsored or supported by one of its many tentacles.
Syrian state television said the attackers had tried but failed to detonate a car bomb.
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The big DUFUS is a dead man walking. Desperate for a last hurrah.
ok fair enough..
but frankly i never know what to believe here in israel either and i feel quite the same about pretty much any regime..
please understand i am a chronic optimist.. (ref www.emspeace.blogspot.com) but when you are fed so much horse dung for so long and every five years or so some journo exposes how everyone lied to you a few moments ago - its difficult to know whats real and what isnt..
quotes and audio grabs are all fine - but context is generally under reported.. journalism is quite a craft and in some ways more of an art.. its rare that one can ever know for certain that the output is genuinely informing..
personally i feel safer in the stable scepticism that i have towards the syrian media than i do towards the pretentious and two-faced often self-promoting journalism that we have in the "west" so to speak..
i think the international community should be exercising caution and keep in mind the impulsive and ego driven nature of the HA.. i dont want a civil war in lebanon..
the region will never live it down and besides.. more than enough people have died in that country for no good reason..
wishing peace to us all..
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
blair bush merkel etc.. please remember.. "diplomacy"
indonesians in the south of lebanon?!?! really??
i know they secretly buy our advanced software solutions but they wont openly admit that we are human - as far as they are concerned "saya gilla saya lotung".. ; ) - excellent customers though "terimakasi" - i like them but i thought only nations with diplomatic ties were being let in..
anyway.. i am not categorically anti assad..
i mean.. how long was i educated to hate kadafi before he suddenly became the middle east's cover boy of western collaboration.. you get used to people switching roles here.. nothing is surprising..
wishing peace to us all..
lirun
telaviv
www.emspeace.blogspot.com
THE TERRORIST STATE OF SYRIA
KILLED THE TERRORISTS
SAVED AMERICAN EMBASSY
AND CONDOLEEZA THANKED THEM....
TIMES CHANGED?....
Pope's speech
As I read the link to the Pope's speech what I got is that he spent too much time studying ancient greek philosophy, and not enough writing this speech, so that one could figure out what he meant by it.
The best gist I could get was that he was using Kor'an as well as other philosophy & religious an example to teach that even if others use violence, to not use violence back. (I couldn't read through it in every detail -- it was too mumbo jumbo for my patience.)
Any which way, it was in very poor taste. He should have stuck with the Christian bible in my opinion.
Sherri,
You wrote -- "I just heard a report that the US government was warning and threatening some country in Central or South America not to elect a particular person as leader or face consequences"
If you find the specifics, can you post them?
It certainly wouldn't be "the government", meaning Congress, since it would have to come up for vote, or any official presentation since it would be part of the news & quickly flagged.
However, there are stories that in the past from time to time the President or CIA had done underhanded things, some of which I'm sure some are true. (Some of which I'm sure are overblown by conspiracy theoristist.) It seems to be a political thing, that if you have the where-with-all to stand up to the ego-demanding part of policitics, you are a little too egotistical to be totally moral about knowing the boundries of your power.
So it would be good to hear about these things before it happened, and see there is any pressure to apply. As far as a public announcement threating a country as a whole not to elect someone -- that's just not the kind of thing that happens. At best I could see someone misinterpreting a political analysis program on the consquences of various election results as a "threat" -- when it was only chatting.
Thanks,
Cheri
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