Report: Spy Satellite Detects Iranian Long-Range Rocket Shipment to Gaza

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted incoming rockets fired from Gaza (photo credit: IDF)
Showing just how fragile the Israel-Hamas ceasefire declared Wednesday is, a new report says Iran was already preparing a new shipment of long-range rockets for terrorist groups in Gaza even while the ceasefire was being finalized.
Britain’s Sunday Times reports Israeli spy satellites last week detected a cargo ship being loaded with rockets and other weapons at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Israeli intelligence officials believe those weapons are headed for Gaza.
Ynet provides further detail on the route Iranian secret shipments take via Sudan and Egypt:
Israeli intelligence sources believe the weapons-laden cargo ship will pass through the well established Iranian weapons smuggling route to Gaza, through Sudan and the Red Sea. Sources told the British newspaper that they believe Iranian ships stationed in Eritrea will escort the ship from the moment it enters the Red Sea. “Regardless of the ceasefire agreement, we will attack and destroy any shipment of arms to Gaza once we have spotted it,” an Israeli defense source said.
It appears that the ship’s cargo includes Fajr-5 missiles, which terrorist groups have already fired at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during Operation Pillar of Defense, and possibly Shahab-3 missiles, which can hit deep in Israeli territory.
Adding another layer to the threat facing Israel, the report suggests those Shahab-3 missiles wouldn’t even need to make it all the way to Gaza and could be fired at Israel from Sudan.
Intelligence officials believe the Fajr-5 missiles are broken apart for shipment, whisked through smuggling tunnels into Gaza and then reassembled by terror groups on the ground.
Last month, a weapons factory in Sudan was destroyed in a bombing Sudanese officials blamed on the Israeli Air Force. Some reports suggested the factory was being used to build Iranian long-range missiles. The Israeli Defense Ministry’s Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs Amos Gilad then said Sudan is a key transit point for shipment of arms to Gaza terrorists.
On Sunday, a Sudanese official said the arms factory that was bombed will be relocated away from residential areas, according to the Associated Press.
As TheBlaze posted Saturday, whereas in the past it was more secretive, Hamas is now openly boasting about the support it receives from Iran. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said Saturday he believes Tehran will increase military support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad. If the Sunday Times report is accurate, it appears that is already happening.
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Atikokan
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 5:59pmWhat the difference is about BiBi, he is not a part of the NWO.
Within the NWO there are DMS, REP, Socialist. Commies, Secular, Jews, Muslim Bros, Hollywood, ignoramas, welfare rec, minority groups …….. Half of them do not know what the heck they have supported. In Shariah you get punished by sodomy but no way are there gay and lesbian relationships, you would probably get stoned to death??
In Communism there is no gay and lesbian relationships let alone marriage. The heirachy of the NWO have led the other minority groups down the garden path for their support.
God is fighting with Isreal, although she will be tormented GOD will turn the cup of wrath and trembling on her enemies.
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ashestoashes
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:15pmBibi is not a part of the NWO..Really? Then why, last year, was it proposed in Israel to make it a crime to draw comparisons to Nazism.?.and why is Bibi a Freemason? (the secret Rothschild’s society..taken after the occult/witchcraft of Kaballah) Huh?
There are two kinds of “Jews” in Israel..Ashkenazi and Sephardic..here is an account from an Ashkenazi.. http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/israel.htm
Jews= the Jewish religion.. those who adhere strictly to theTorah..not a political faction..
Yes..Jesus will step in and save all of Israel..in Zech 12 13 and 14.. but something happens..two thirds will be destroyed..Will it be because they fall away from the faith?..or is Zechariah speaking of Revelations 2:9?..I know you who call yourselves Jews..but are not..I know your poverty and you are rich..you are the synogogue of Satan..Is he speaking of those Communist/Zionists?
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November26
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 5:40amI wish we had a real man like BiBi as our President. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
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kevinbogard
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 9:58amashes,
I’m a Mason and you’re an idiot, You said you do your homework? Stop reading Dan Brown books. hahahaa
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badge02812
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 10:37amYou should know, according to Shia clerics all Sunni muslim men are born GAY.
Meaning GAY as in HOMOSEXUAL, not GAY as in happy or carefree.
For further clarification please contact Cher Bono.
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Berbel73
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 5:14pmYou know its disgusting the anti-Semitic comments coming from certain people on this site that have gulped down the lies and mistruths perpetrated against the jewish people. They willfully ignore all of the evidence that disproves all of their great zionist conspiracy theories that can be easily found. Their hatred burns too deeply inside of them for them to admit that they are wrong, and it will cost them dearly in the end. When the hour is late they will beg for forgiveness only to see that their hubris has cost them the ultimate price.
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PaxInVeritate
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 5:21pmTrue. And that can be said about the Catholic haters too.
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American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 5:24pmYet no photos to prove it. If you’re going to announce that you saw it, at least post the photographic evidence too.
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ashestoashes
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:21pmSorry BERBEL..but the Jews are not our God..and Israel is not our golden calf..
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Berbel73
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 7:51pmAshestoashes, perhaps your reading and comprehension skills are lacking, but no where in what I wrote did I claim anything of the sort. If you don’t care for what I wrote then that is your problem, but don’t try and put words in my mouth.
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SUNTZU
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 8:00pmAnd thee without sin,cast the first stone.
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ashestoashes
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 9:23pm.@BERBEL well..let’s see all the evidence that you have to disprove the Zionist conspiracy theories…
My guess is that you have none..and either..you are a Communist/Zionist..or you are among the brainwashed..
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Berbel73
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 9:24pmYes that’s very convenient isn’t it Suntzu… if the truth stings a little too much.
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Berbel73
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 11:20pmI am not here to educate you Ashestoashes. The protocols, the bolshevik revolution, and the like are all used by anti-Semites to condemn the Jewish people, but the truth is all there and easy to find that expose these “theories” for the lies that they are. But I will not do for you what you should do for yourself. If you want to believe all of the lies that is your prerogative, however you will have to live with the consequences of your choices. You claim that I am “brainwashed”, but I never willingly accepting anyone’s so called facts at face value without further investigating them for myself because people that have an agenda will use a kernal of truth and then wrap it in lies and distortions in order to achieve their goals. You see to them the ends justify the means, but there is a very wise man that says the truth has no agenda and that we should do our own homework so that is exactly what I have done. I would recommend that you follow this common sense advice for yourself, but you probably won’t because you’d rather accept the easy answers that you are told. So who’s the one that is really “brainwashed”?
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ashestoashes
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 12:15am@BERBEL..I have done my homework..I know that the Jews lost Israel 2 thousand years ago…due to disobedience to God..and I know that the Zionist Rothschilds were behind Hitler who murdered not only 6 million Jews..but 7 million Catholics..Christians..dissidents..union workers..handicapped gypsies and homosexuals..but we don’t hear that because of our Zionist controlled media..I also know that the Rothschilds..said to be from the tribe of Dan..are spoken of as the serpent in the Bible…I also know that Hitler had 150 thousand Hebrew/Zionists in his military and sent Zionists into Palestine for the purpose of the NWO..and I also know that they bankrupted us with wars..which they instigate funding all sides..and have been about the business of overtaking the world since the 17th century..they started the UN..The Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations..have gotten rid of our Presidents who tried going around them..and I believe they are responsible for 9/11..I also know about the Bolsheviks The Rothschilds are behind the Communist NWO secret societies..Netanyahu.Lenin..Karl Marx as well as famous Arabs are and were Freemasons..
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Berbel73
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 12:53pmLMAO, Ashestoashes you are nuttier than a 2 pound can of Planters. I should of guessed that you were an Alex Jones / Jessie Ventura conspiracy theory wack job. And you claim that I’m a brainwashed communist/zionist?, hahahahahah that’s hilarious!!! I almost felt kind of bad for you when I thought that you were just an uninformed bigot who probably grew up in a house where racism was ingrained into you at an early age. But now that I know you are a sociopath who sees conspiracies everywhere based on nothing but hear-say and supposition, and who probably believes that the davinci code and angels and demons is a true story, I only feel that you are a pathetic little dweeb who should be medicated and locked in a padded cell before you hurt yourself or someone else because of the voices inside your head!
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GrayPanther
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 4:23pmI have hope Israel will get tired of being calm while their irrational neighbors attack them and cry fowl. The costs to Israelis to be ready to defend themselves is high. I hope they take over Gaza and the West Bank and export all Palestinians to their home land; Jordan. Then Israel can have defendable borders and additional land to develop without interference. And they deserve it.
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cloudsofwar
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:45pmwhen i read about the mid east i think about the reading in church last week. it went something like this. the sun will be blackened and the moon will not shine. I will gather my people from the air and the earth. thats not the whole reading but it made me think that maybe it was fortelling a nuclear war.
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Dushman Kush
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:54pmComrade, one thing is for very sure. The Yellow Wind is blowing…. Let Nature take her course….
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:58pmGet your head out of your “clouds.” People have been making the same claim for a thousand years.
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spfoam1
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:11pmThat seems o be a small part of a timeline, or an indicator of a certain time. It doesnt say how long the sun and moon will appear this way. How about an eclipse?
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rickroland
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 6:18pmThe funny thing about Bible prophesy is that any number of the prophesies can be said to have happened any number of times since the words were allegedly written. In other words, Bible prophesy in today’s era, relying on it at all, is not even remotely rational at best. The only thing that is going to handle the world’s problems are people working to handle them. Waiting on or counting on God (or gods or flying spaghetti monster’s) isn’t going to get the job done.
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katzkiner
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:27pmMuslims fly missiles into Israel daily. It is amazing the Jews are EXPECTED to tolerate this as normal. Sooner or later some Muslim will fly a missile into DC or Moscow. I can’t wait to see the response. Instant parking lot, somewhere in Arabia.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:36pmAnd, Israel is just a poor, little, stop-picking-on-me, victim… not!
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Dushman Kush
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:06pmThis is wonderful news. So many of the Comrades and so many of the Esteemed Brothers of the Muslim Ummah were concerned. Most of the Comrades are trusting our Leader to assist the oppressed Palestinians worldwide. It is not our responsibility to overthrow established authority in the Middle East, but rather our Leader’s. Most of the Comrades think he should give Hamas another $900,000,000 or double that amount to help them get back on their feet.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:11pmAmerica has been giving far more, for a much greater time, to Israel. Hypocrites? Get out of the Middle East. It’s a no win cesspool.
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Jaycen
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:00pm“…Hamas is now openly boasting about the support it receives from Iran.”
Why shouldn’t they be? Look at the number of anti-Semites who post here at The Blaze. Sure, a lot of them are trolls, but there are quite a few who are anti-Israel and anti-Semetic.
The fact is, people who hate Jews don’t hate Jews, they hate what Judaism represents – freedom. Jews tend to be Capitalists.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:12pmAre you an anti-Gentile? Good for goose, good for gander.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:14pmJudaism is a religion. Jew is an ethnicity. It’s your ignorance that permits your foolish conclusions. And, Jews founded communism. So your other conclusion is just as stupid. Look up Moses Hess and Karl Marx.
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Dushman Kush
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:23pmComrade, I think that a lot of the guests on this site have googled “U.S. Founding Fathers Statements concerning the Jews” and are now rooting for the Jihad. Even more disturbing is that a lot of the guests on this site have googled “What Famous men have stated concerning the Jews.” Nothing is more memorable than that the Jewish Bolshevik Revolution has turned into a Revolution against International Jewry. Long Live the Communist International !!!
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tzion
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 8:07pm@Jerk
Being Jewish is both an ethnic and religious identity. The two are intrinsically linked and you cannot separate them. More than that, being Jewish also has cultural and national aspects as well. Marx and Hess, along with all of the lead Jewish Bolsheviks and many of the other names you like to bring up, rejected their religious, and cultural, and more often than not saw their ethnic and national roots as inconsequential. Most embraced atheism as their new religion and adopted a new culture that diametrically opposed the one they were raised with.
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katzkiner
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:59pmAfter 65 years of daily war, Israel know how these bas##### operate. And Israel still has 200 plus nukes. Iran could get some nukes sooner than they think.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:15pmWonderful mindless thought.
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TRILO
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:50pmWeapons of mass destruction were believed to be on convoys of trucks heading out of Iraq – never found. Yellow cake believed to be smuggled it of Africa in the lead up to Iraq – never found. Drones flying overhead but no actionable information could be obtained-ambassador and others dead. Our government knowingly supplying arms and money to al Qaeda and other terrorists in the grand lie of the “War on Terror”. Now spy satellites see broken down weapons being loaded on a ship “believed” to be heading to Hamas.I do not believe anything that comes from this lying evil government.
Our government will stop at nothing to get us into another war. Why should israel allow rockets to be fired into their country on a daily basis? Israel should have wiped Hamas off the face of the earth.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:54pmI wonder if that same spy satellite detected the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment that America has been shipping to Israel? Hypocritical outrage?
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blaaaaackwoman
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:41pmThere is not a single Muslim on the face of the earth that can be trusted. NOT A SINGLE ONE.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:56pmWho can be trusted? We were lied to in order to get us into a war against Iraq for Israel.
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Honestybefore truth
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 4:28pm@ the Jerk (what an appropriate name, likely taken from what people have been calling you for a lifetime)
We get it! You hate the Jewish people, and everything they stand for. You see any aid given them as a personal affront. Now you can crawl back in to your padded crib, suck your thumb (while likely feverishly practicing the other act implied by your name) and let the sane adults discuss news beyond your feeble capacity to comprehend.
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nw5052001
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:21pmdid Obama build this?
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 12:55amNo. He sure can screw it up. All that bending over (bowing). What a strange guy.
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lynnissmart
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:58pmNothing surprising here! Sink Iranian ship with weapons…and watch out for tunnels!
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Ted Zeppelin
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:46pm.
The jew haters always favor a brief cease fire in order to replenish it’s supply of weapons.
Obysmal will ignore Israel as will the ladies of the red light district known as the main stream media.
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The_Jerk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:00pmJews can do anything that their little hearts desire, no matter how vile, and any who oppose will always be called Jew haters or antisemites. Blacks do the same with racism. Homosexuals do the same with homophobia. Women do he same with sexism. Hispanics do the same with xenophobia.
All the “poor me” minorities… women being the exception, they’re just the “poor me” crowd.
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rickc34
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:36pmLet’s see what Obama will do if Israel sinks the cargo ship from Iran. Will he stand by Israel or give Israel the Judas kiss.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:55pmHe will give Israel the Kiss of Judah, as I still expect him to intervene on the part of the Palestinians in any conflict between Israel and Hamas. Obama wants nothing more than the dismemberment of Israel.
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chips1
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:17pmObama is dumber than I think if he believes Americans will follow his directions. His only followers are the sick, lame and lazy. He is the leader of nothing!!!
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kvan
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:32pmWrong! He is the commander in chief of all the U.S. Military.
Question is, will the Military follow orders to intervene against Israel?
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AZfreeman
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 9:44amRick, O’blameO has already answered your question in his book “Audacity of Hope”.
Speaking of Muslims and Arabic immigrants: he wrote..
“..I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”. Barack Hussein Obama
The sad part is, Americans are too ignorant, self-absorbed, and apathetic to see the danger this man presents and have elected him to our highest office (again). We now deserve whatever we get. …rf
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starview
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:23pmMakes you wonder if this last fighting was just to see how many missles the “Iron Dome” could destroy. Now that Gaza, Hamas and Iran know its less than half, they will send in the long range missles to do severe damage deep inside Israel to densly populated areas.
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Uechi
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:20pmCease fire so we can stock up on weapons to kill Jews and Christians. Does anybody really believe these animals want piece when their whole existence is based on driving Israel into the sea and killing every Jew?
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Individualism
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:13pmIf its true Israel should kick Irans ass on their own. would be nice to see the imagery for proof.
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Fubared
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:01pmWindy, it’s what they do. Do you need to see the stems and seeds to know you smoke too much?
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Eastinfection
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:06pmoops, i meant 1516 days.
ellietoo
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:59pmThis shipment was noted well over a week ago. The news media is acting like this just happened. It happened before the rocket war from Gaza. So now Israel has to stop these things from being delivered. I wonder if that was part of the “cease fire” agreement.
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CatB
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:07pmOf course a “cease fire” is only restock and reload .. to Hamas (IRAN). Israel I am certain knows this … and are planning accordingly.
Remember Benghazi
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RamonPreston
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:58pmTime to get John Hutchinson’s beam weapon and turn the Gaza strip into glass. We have the technology. We can hit any target by aiming through the earth. Oh, wait. Barry wouldn’t like that.
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The-Monk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:50pmI don’t remember reading in “The Art of War” or any other type of book that you allow the other side to declare a cease fire so they can rest and/or reload….
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RamonPreston
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:54pmIt happened all the time in the Viet Nam war.
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Polarized America
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:06pmmaybe not, but the ” Tet Offensive” worked really well in Vietnam
it was a “cease fire” to celebrate the ” Tet Lunar New Year”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive
yippy, it was a grand old holiday /:-(
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Polarized America
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:09pm.
btw…i think that is in “The Art of War”.. attack when your enemy leased expects it
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The-Monk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:11pmThanks for the info.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:24pmHi MONK, It should only be for the humane removal of the wounded and dead.
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The-Monk
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 3:04pmHi RJJ,
That’s what I was thinking.
Hope you are having a fine Sunday. : )
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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:48pmDamn Barry this is a feel good story for a POS anti-Semite like yourself,your buds in the MB in Iran are working hard on your behalf,not Americas. The cease fire only helped the subhumans rearm and Israel should’ve had a cease fire order given when the last subhuman was killed and not a second sooner.
Just face the facts people the subhumans won’t stop shelling and sending rockets until they’re made to stop and hopefully Israel will exterminate all the cockroaches.
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thibx
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:48pmisrael should have went in and killed them all and taken back the land.
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:47pmSink the scow!
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IndyGuy
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 12:43pmHow much longer is America going to stand around and watch Iran set us and Israel up???
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Eastinfection
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:05pm421 days until 2017 inauguration day.
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Eastinfection
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 1:40pmcorrection… 1516 days.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 2:34pmEast
Hope you had a Nice Thanksgiving
New username due to the over use of the begining of my old name plus trying to turn over a new leaf.
Figured I would revert to my real self hence the name.
(Clue) I had to take the duct tape off my big mouth so that I can get the monkey off my back.
I will only be giving positive words and humor.
Could not take the anger anymore and dont want to give the powers to be any reason to bother me.
I already have a family member that has been visited by the suits this year so just want to try and stay positive.
So on this subject I defer to you.
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Eastinfection
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 5:57pmWelcome back, Amigo…
Live long and prosper ;)
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OldSurfRat
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 8:26pmThanks bro!!!
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