As the posting from yesterday's Debkafile report, if accurate, demonstrated how the U.S. was preparing to take military action against strategic Syrian points, today the following article clearly demonstrates how Russia is making their move, in what is appearing be more like a high stakes game of geo political chess.
Russia is moving their 'rooks,' to use a chess term, as an attempt to prepare for what the west is getting ready to do. You also have to remember that Russia has anywhere from 8-12 naval ships and other vessels docked in the port of Tartarus.
US: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters
Tuesday - 6/12/2012, 1:29pm ET
By BRADLEY KLAPPER
Associated Press
http://www.wtop.com/289/2377364/US-Russia-sending-Syria-attack-helicopters
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration says Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and is warning about a dramatic escalation in the Arab country's 15-month conflict.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the delivery represents the "latest information." She says the U.S. is concerned as the helicopters "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically."
She is calling instead for Moscow to help the U.S. push forward a political transition plan for Syria.
Clinton was speaking Tuesday at the Brookings Institution, a liberal-oriented research and policy organization.
Russia has consistently said it would not condone the use of outside forces to end the conflict and has said that it would not supply arms that would aid the government in quelling the uprising.
US: Russia sending Syria attack helicopters
Tuesday - 6/12/2012, 1:29pm ET
By BRADLEY KLAPPER
Associated Press
http://www.wtop.com/289/2377364/US-Russia-sending-Syria-attack-helicopters
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration says Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and is warning about a dramatic escalation in the Arab country's 15-month conflict.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the delivery represents the "latest information." She says the U.S. is concerned as the helicopters "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically."
She is calling instead for Moscow to help the U.S. push forward a political transition plan for Syria.
Clinton was speaking Tuesday at the Brookings Institution, a liberal-oriented research and policy organization.
Russia has consistently said it would not condone the use of outside forces to end the conflict and has said that it would not supply arms that would aid the government in quelling the uprising.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following article is relevant to what is happening in Syria due to the fact that the Israeli government is worried of what Syria would do after the West attacks it.
Home Front Officer: Missile attack would force massive evacuation of Tel Aviv
DEBKAfile Special Report
June 12, 2012, 6:18 PM
http://debka.com/article/22078/Home-Front-Officer-Missile-attack-would-force-massive-
evacuation-of-Tel-Aviv
Col. Adam Zusman, Home Front Commander of Israel’s Dan region (Tel Aviv and its environs), told AFP Tuesday, June 12, "In case of a missile attack on the centre of Israel, especially unconventional attacks and if buildings are destroyed, the population from Tel Aviv and other cities will be evacuated and relocated in other areas of the country."
The officer did not say to where the roughly two million inhabitants of the Dan region’s core towns of Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Holon, Petakh Tikva, Ramat Hasharon, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Bein Brak, Herzliya, Or Yehuda, Givat Shmuel and Kiryat Ono, would be evacuated. debkafile’s military sources estimate they will be relocated in the southern mostly desert Negev region. The outer Gush Dan ring includes some 3 million people.
Col. Zusman said Israel continued to face serious threats from Iran and its allies, the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah and Gaza's Hamas rulers. He did not refer to Syria.
"In the next war, nobody will be able to drink a coffee in Dizengoff," he said, referring to a popular street in downtown Tel Aviv. "Israeli civilians will have to face the threat. Today, every civilian is threatened in Israel."
Thirty percent of the Israeli population under his command are short of gas masks.
Zusman added Israel has some of the "most sophisticated" anti-aircraft system in the world, but that the Jewish state could not count on any system for total protection. "We are getting ready for the worst-case scenario."
Until now, Israeli officials and high-ranking officers have never talked openly about the potential outcome of a concentrated missile attack on central Israel, although two days ago, the deputy chief of staff, Maj. General Yair Naveh disclosed that Syria had the biggest arsenal in the world of chemical weapons and also rockets able to strike every part of Israel.
debkafile’s military sources report that plans were drawn up to evacuate Tel Aviv and some of its outlying towns two years ago when it turned out that in a potential war, that centralregion might be attacked with missiles carrying “dirty” (radioactive) warheads which spreads contamination across an area of several square kilometers, or containing poison chemicals, nerve gas or biological substances.
While Iran is the only possible source of nuclear bombs, although none are yet operational, the other types of unconventional weapons are possessed by Iran, Syria and Hizballah.
Israel’s Defense Forces area also prepared for a nuclear or dirty bomb attack coming from the Mediterranean Sea to the West.
Col. Zusman did not go into the logistics of a massive population transfer from Tel Aviv or the measures to sustain them as refugees. However, because of the awareness of Tel Aviv’s potential danger, building was halted there on a new underground facility for the IDF General Command, which unlike the present war room was planned to withstand intense missile attack. Our military sources report that an alternative site has been reserved to house the high command in the event of war.
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