military installation in Zabadani, which is about 30 kms NW of Damascus about mid-way to Beirut.

The story about Syria handing Hezbollah missiles looks like a cover story for what was actually a military attack on a defensive anti-aircraft unit. The SA-17 is pretty much useless without the long-range radar and command vehicles, and if the IAF attacked a "convoy" near the border with Lebanon, that should tell you that this is was what actually happened:

It looks like like one of Syria's mobile air defense units was in the area, which is their right, perhaps in anticipation of an Israel air strike. It appears they may have been onto something, there.

It isn't at all obvious on its face that this was necessarily going to be a gift to Lebanese Hezbollah.

and honorable retirement. "We are all honorable men."

Disgusting, dishonorable and without justice. The kind of thing that brings down once great nations.



See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&mesg_id=7152632&topic_id=7150302

RESPONSE TO ARTICLE POSTED: Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou sentenced for leaking name on agency's use of torture.....

We'll agree to disagree about the nature, origins and definition of theft.