[Centraal] Crisis in Syri� en Irak #438

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Conflicts twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 21:30:21 BREAKING: US-led Coalition Downs Syrian Warplane, Syrian Army Says - @haaretzcom reageer retweet

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CivilWarMap twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 20:25:45 US Coalition reportedly downed a Syrian Government SU-22 south of Tabqahhttps://t.co/QeXZATbIdy https://t.co/g1lxeU1742 reageer retweet

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 21:40 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
Die kruising bij Resafah is vrij strategisch om te hebben

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RT_com twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 21:08:29 BREAKING: Iran fires missiles at militants in E. Syria in retaliation for Tehran attacks - report... https://t.co/VPJrwUQ2QU reageer retweet

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QalaatAlMudiq twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 21:20:56 #Pt. Video via @Hassanvand showing a mid-range ballistic missile fired from #IRGC base in W. #Iran on #ISIS target… https://t.co/M5TrpCHIxz reageer retweet

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thevocaleurope twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 21:23:03 SENSITIVE |#Iran fires missiles - 1st operational use of mid-range missiles in 30 yearshttps://t.co/sKRVbLrnPd reageer retweet

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 21:54 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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RT_com twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 21:08:29 BREAKING: Iran fires missiles at militants in E. Syria in retaliation for Tehran attacks - report... https://t.co/VPJrwUQ2QU reageer retweet

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QalaatAlMudiq twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 21:20:56 #Pt. Video via @Hassanvand showing a mid-range ballistic missile fired from #IRGC base in W. #Iran on #ISIS target… https://t.co/M5TrpCHIxz reageer retweet

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thevocaleurope twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 21:23:03 SENSITIVE |#Iran fires missiles - 1st operational use of mid-range missiles in 30 yearshttps://t.co/sKRVbLrnPd reageer retweet

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:04 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Dat snap ik nooit. Als ze weten dat daar hun hoofdkwartier ligt, waarom schieten ze die dingen dan niet gewoon eerder op ze af, los van wraak. Zoveel zullen die raketten niet kosten.

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:04 schreef BEFEM het volgende:

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Dat snap ik nooit. Als ze weten dat daar hun hoofdkwartier ligt, waarom schieten ze die dingen dan niet gewoon eerder op ze af, los van wraak. Zoveel zullen die raketten niet kosten.

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:12 schreef WammesWaggel het volgende:

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Die dingen zijn vaak ook niet zo accuraat en al helemaal niet van een land als Iran.

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:16 schreef Stabiel het volgende:

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Nonsense. Iran heeft genoeg accurate raketten.

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:18 schreef WammesWaggel het volgende:
Tot op de 5 meter nauwkeurig met een betrouwbaarheid van 95% ?

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But Uzi Rubin, who was in charge of Israel�s missile defence from 1991 to 1999 and presided over the development of the Arrow anti- missile system, has a much more sombre view of Iran�s capabilities.

The "bad news" for Israel, Rubin told IPS in an interview, is that the primary factor affecting Iran�s capability to retaliate is the rapidly declining cost of increased precision in ballistic missiles. Within a very short time, Iran has already improved the accuracy of its missiles from a few kilometers from the target to just a few meters, according to Rubin.

That improvement would give Iran the ability to hit key Israeli economic infrastructure and administrative targets, he said. "I�m asking my military friends how they feel about waging war without electricity," said Rubin.

The consequences of Iranian missile strikes on administrative targets could be even more serious, Rubin believes. "If the civilian government collapses," he said, "the military will find it difficult to wage a war."

Rubin is even worried that, if the accuracy of Iranian missiles improves further, which he believes is "bound to happen," Iran will be able to carry out pinpoint attacks on Israel�s air bases, which are concentrated in just a few places.

Some Israeli analysts have suggested that Israel could hit Iranian missiles in a preemptive strike, but Rubin said Israel can no longer count on being able to hit Iranian missiles before they are launched.

Iran�s longer-range missiles have always been displayed on mobile transporter erector launchers (TELs), as Rubin pointed out in an article in Arms Control Today earlier this year. "The message was clear," Rubin wrote. "Iran�s missile force is fully mobile, hence, not pre-emptable."

Rubin, who has argued for more resources to be devoted to the Arrow anti-missile system, acknowledged that it can only limit the number of missiles that get through. In an e-mail to IPS, he cited the Arrow system�s record of more than 80 percent success in various tests over the years, but also noted that such a record "does not assure an identical success rate in real combat."

Iran "Zulfiqar" SRBM (MRV) ballistic missile,mobile TEL, range 750KMموشک بالستیک ذوالفقار

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:24 schreef Stabiel het volgende:

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Lees dit eens:

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http://original.antiwar.c(...)ks-of-war-with-iran/

Kijk dit filmpje eens (goed opletten vanaf 0:17). Sommige menen zelfs dat Iran deze raket heeft ingezet vanavond.

Iran "Zulfiqar" SRBM (MRV) ballistic missile,mobile TEL, range 750KMموشک بالستیک ذوالفقار

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:31 schreef WammesWaggel het volgende:
Het zou best kunnen hoor en is opzich best logisch, deze bron is daartegen ook gewoon iemand die zoveel mogelijk budget wil losweken in Tel Aviv en Washington voor zijn project.

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Israel has been regularly supplying Syrian rebels near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years, a secret engagement in the enemy country’s civil war aimed at carving out a buffer zone populated by friendly forces.

The Israeli army is in regular communication with rebel groups and its assistance includes undisclosed payments to commanders that help pay salaries of fighters and buy ammunition and weapons, according to interviews with about half a dozen Syrian fighters. Israel has established a military unit that oversees the support in Syria—a country that it has been in a state of war with for decades—and set aside a specific budget for the aid, said one person familiar with Israeli operation.

Israel has in the past acknowledged treating some 3,000 wounded Syrians, many of them fighters, in its hospitals since 2013 as well as providing humanitarian aid such as food and clothing to civilians near the border during winter. But interviews with half a dozen rebels and three people familiar with Israel’s thinking reveal that the country’s involvement is much deeper and more coordinated than previously known and entails direct funding of opposition fighters near its border for years.

“Israel stood by our side in a heroic way,” said Moatasem al-Golani, spokesman for the rebel group Fursan al-Joulan, or Knights of the Golan. “We wouldn’t have survived without Israel’s assistance.”

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:36 schreef Infection het volgende:
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The Islamic State claimed three “Lions of the caliphate”

Committed the coordinated Palestinian stabbing-cum-shooting attack Friday night, June 16, outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, in which Border Guard policewoman Hadas Malka was stabbed to death and four people were injured. This was the first coordinated ISIS attack in Israel. The jihadists warned it was not the last.

The three Palestinian terrorists, aged 18-19, from the Deir Abu Meshaal village near Ramallah, were shot dead by security forces. The ISIS notice honored the young killers by naming them as Abu Al-Buraa al Miqdasi, Abu Hassan al Miqdasi and Abu Rabah al-Miqdasi. They are described as having prayed before going into action against “the Jews.” The notice went on to say “The martyrs planted fear in the hearts of the Jews and with the help of Allah this won’t be the last attack. The Jews should expect their state to be laid to ruin by the soldiers of the caliphate.”
The Palestinian Hamas refrained from explicitly claiming the attack but praised the three terrorists as its members and issued a statement that the attack was “renewed proof that the intifada continues.”

debkafile’s counterterrorism sources report that the three young Palestinians trained for some weeks in the use of a Carl Gustav submachuine gun in open ground outside their village in the region of Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority. Israeli security authorities are now investigating how those shooting practices went unnoticed despite the boosted surveillance in force before and during the month-long Muslim Feast of Ramadan, which tends to be a season of Islamic violence. It can also be revealed that the three terrorists left their village days earlier and were put up somewhere in Jerusalem.
Official spokesmen tried to play down these lapses by referring to the Jerusalem attack as a local incident.
The three killers evidently copied the modus operandi of the Islamists who carried out three terror attacks in the British towns of Manchester and London, killing 39 people since March. The last took place in London on June 3, ieaving seven people dead.
Our sources stress that the coordinated attack Friday night had to be prepared in detail; the perpetrators or their accomplices must have studied the terrain of the two linked attacks well in advance. They discovered that the ancient Cave of Zedekiah, which is heavily overgrown with weeds, formed a perfect hiding place for jumping out on the Israeli police patrol at and around the Damascus Gate leading into the Old City. However it was discovered that one of their sub-machine guns malfunctioned. Otherwise the casualty toll would have been a lot higher.

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Op zondag 18 juni 2017 22:36 schreef Infection het volgende:
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CivilWarMap twitterde op zondag 18-06-2017 om 23:16:45 Syrian Democratic Forces captured Jadin from Syrian Arab Army after repelling an attack towards Hajj al Mafazi Map: http://syriancivilwarmap.com https://t.co/RqXgqcoAix reageer retweet

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VS-coalitie haalt Syrisch legervliegtuig bij Raqqa neer

De door de Verenigde Staten geleide coalitie heeft zondag een Syrisch legervliegtuig neergehaald dat bij Raqqa aanvallen uitvoerde op eenheden van de terreurgroep Islamitische Staat.

Dat bevestigen dat Amerikaanse strijdkrachten. Volgens de VS kwamen de bommen van het Syrische vliegtuig dicht bij door de VS gesteunde strijders terecht.

De piloot van het neergehaalde toestel wordt vermist, aldus een verklaring die op de Syrische staatstelevisie werd voorgelezen.

Het Syrische leger sprak van een ''flagrante aanval'' en waarschuwde dat deze gevaarlijke gevolgen kan hebben voor de strijd tegen terreur.