alt.war.nuclear

"John Schilling" wrote in message
news:hurtg39p6ldi8uatk32jp76tt8vv0ij73f@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:32:12 -0700, Allen Thomson
>
> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm having no luck at all finding just where the
>>whatever-it-was that
>>Israel was supposed to have hit is.
>
>>Does anyone here have the lat/lon of it?
>
>>Or any satellite photography? I'd have thought the
>>commercial imaging
>>companies would have been all over the story, trying to
>>come up with
>>pre- and post-strike pictures. But nothing, nichego, nada
>>that I've
>>found.
>
>>Anybody here have better luck on getting concrete
>>information about
>>this mysterious event?
>
> My sources are coming up dry as well.
>
> And it's strange that *both* the Israelis and the Syrians
> are keeping
> quiet about that. Seems to me that one or the other would
> want the
> thing plastered across the front pages with headlines and
> pictures
> to the effect of, "See, there was too/was not Forbidden
> Naughtiness
> right there where the Israeli bombs fell!"
>
> Apparently, each of them believes the other would get more
> propaganda
> mileage out of the pictures.

Remember the USS Panay incident in the late 1930s? US
warship gets strafed and sunk in Chinese waters by Japanese
fighters?

An American photographer TOOK newsreel-quality movies of the
event, clearly showing the Jap fighters against the
background an incredibly huge US flag flying from the Panay.
FDR personally requested the newsman's employers suppress
the film footage, the Japanese formally apologized and wrote
out a few checks to the families of the dead and the USN.
Nobody was ready to do a full-on war in the Pacific yet.

Just saying... maybe neither Assad nor Olmert are quite in
shape to start screaming "Respect my authoritay!" yet. And
since the Alawites who run Syria are the Persians' pet
Arabs, this may indicates that Israel figures this raid
won't kick over any overpowering retaliation from Iran,
either.
--
Vance P. Frickey

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they
infect the soul with evil." -- Socrates

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