From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:05:10 +0100, Adam wrote:
>
>> http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/02/syrianbase.shtml
>>
>> Y'know wot I woz saying wrt sailing AD warships in for a port visit when
>> the Israelis were bombing Lebanon....welll..... seems like the Russians
>> have twigged the idea...
>>
>> http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/02/syrianbase.shtml
>>
>> "Russia has begun works in the Syrian port of Tartus seeking to built a
>> full-scale naval base for the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, currently
>> based in Ukraineƒ’s Sevastopol, the Kommersant newspaper reported on
>> Friday, quoting unnamed sources in the Defense Ministry and the General
>> Staff of the Russian Navy.
>
> Actually pretty old news.  Nothing to do with the present conflict in the
> Middle East.
>
> George


So you say. Amazing timing though. & once in place this will change the
dynamics seriously. Given this is "old news" then one wonders if
it was this which forced the US & Israel to look for any sort of
pretext for acts of violence prior to the establishment of the base(s)
& the concomitant AADS.

Adam

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