Meanwhile in Iraq & Syria

[BjornP]

By all means go crazy, Capps. Let's see how dedicated you are to your game.

[StCapps]

By all means go crazy, Capps. Let's see how dedicated you are to your game.

Here's hoping that the Kings lose to the Oilers tonight, not that likely but that would be a pretty sweet upset that helps out my Avs.

[BjornP]

Oil and kings, huh, Capps? Interesting. That's related to Syria by way of Jesus and Aramaic. Seeing as Messiah means the anointed - by oil - which related to how kings were annointed by oil, and Jesus was Aramaic, and there is a sizeable population of Aramaic-speaking Christians in Syria mostly belonging to the eastern churches.

Which naturally leads to the topic at hand. One of the largest Syrian Christian militias is the "Syriac Military Council", which together with the Kurdish YPG founded the Syrian Democratic Forces, which the US currently support and which currently is getting attacked by Turkey and its FSA allies in Afrin. Russia had previously enforced a no-flight zone over northern Syrian airspace and had already conducted several talks and cooperated with SDF in fighting against al-Nusra and ISIS. After talks with Turkey, Russia allowed Turkish planes to bomb Afrin. Which may be a signal to Assad that it's now Russia who can decide who gets to bomb their country or not, or to the Kurds that they better accept Assad as the legit leader permanently, or both.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Judo flip.

[TheReal_ND]

Israel confirms plane down.

IDF Retweeted
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IDF has targeted the Iranian control systems in Syria that sent the #UAV into Israeli airspace. Massive Syrian Anti-Air fire, one F16 crashed in Israel, pilots safe. #Iran is responsible for this severe violation of Israeli sovereignty. Event ongoing, more to follow.

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status ... 5569430528

[TheReal_ND]

Front page of Haaretz.

[TheReal_ND]

[TheReal_ND]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02- ... -shot-down

[TheReal_ND]

The former chief-of-staff of Iran’s armed forces said Tuesday that Western spies had used lizards to “attract atomic waves” and spy on his country’s nuclear program.

It was the latest in a long line of incidents of Western countries, including Israel, being accused of deploying secret agents from the animal kingdom.

Hassan Firuzabadi, senior military adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was responding to questions from local media on the recent arrest of environmentalists.

He said he did not know the details of the cases, but that the West had often used tourists, scientists and environmentalists to spy on Iran.

“Several years ago, some individuals came to Iran to collect aid for Palestine… We were suspicious of the route they chose,” he told the reformist ILNA news agency.

“In their possessions were a variety of reptile desert species like lizards, chameleons… We found out that their skin attracts atomic waves and that they were nuclear spies who wanted to find out where inside the Islamic Republic of Iran we have uranium mines and where we are engaged in atomic activities,” he said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-accu ... ar-spying/

Too far, Jews.

This is just too far.

[kybkh]

Have you heard about how the guy that got fired last week, because his wife he divorced 20 years ago, was being considered for a promotion before they fired him?