Paris: NATO-Arab Syria intervention imminent
Paris: NATO-Arab Syria intervention imminent.
DEBKAfile Special Report December 7, 2012, 3:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sources close to the French Defense Ministry reported Friday, Dec. 7, that a Western-Arab military intervention against the Assad regime is due to begin shortly with the participation of the US, France, Britain, Turkey, Jordan and other anti-Assad Arab nations. debkafile: The reference is to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar’s special forces.
Our military sources add that the French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle carrying a complement of marines is deployed in the Mediterranean, having joined the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and at least five British warships which are also carrying a large marine force.
In the second and third weeks of November, British and French naval forces, plus 2,600 special ops combatants from both nations, performed landing-and-capture exercises against fortified locations on the coast and mountains of Albania as practice for potential operations against similar terrain in Syria, where the Alawite Mountains loom over the coastal towns of Latakia and Tartus.
The troops landing there would head for the Alawite Mts. to prevent Assad and his loyal units from retreating to his mountain stronghold and fighting on from there – as he plans to do if he is forced to flee Damascus.
French sources told Le Point magazine that the NATO mission for Syria, including the UK and the US, would be modeled on the Western intervention in Libya in 2011. It would combine an aerial blitz with ground action by special forces for destroying Assad’s chemical weapons stocks, his air force and his air defense systems.
WarSclerotic 
December 7, 2012 at 8:38 PM
latest updates:
French military advisers meet with rebels inside Syria
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-french-military-advisers-meet-with-rebels-inside-syria-1.483383
Syria rebels aim to seize Damascus airport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20637079
December 7, 2012 at 8:44 PM
No, no, no! It will not be imminent until an formal Western diplorubbish kicks-in at UN or at least NATO. And that won’t happen until a believable casus belli has been established in the Western media. Put plainly: some chemical or biological agents would have to really be released somewhere before we will see Libya 2.0 materialize. Could be some false-flag action, but that would be risky… Anyone disagrees?
December 7, 2012 at 9:22 PM
The start of an open western military operation in Syria will ocur when the Patriot system will fully deploy in Turkey.
December 7, 2012 at 9:29 PM
Copied from Wikipedia…”According to NATO Consultant Dr Jill Dekker, Syria has worked on: anthrax, plague, tularemia, botulinium, smallpox, aflotoxin, cholera, ricin and camelpox, and has used Russian help in installing anthrax in missile warheads. She also stated “they view their bio-chemical arsenal as part of a normal weapons program”.
All nasty stuff. Any one of these could start an epidemic with the potential to spread throughout the world. So what’s it going to be world leaders??….preemption to remove the threat or diplomacy causing us to wait to see if it has positive results.
December 7, 2012 at 11:58 PM
The White House Correspondents Association is strongly urging the Obama administration to allow press access to the president’s official swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, following indications from White House aides that the event could potentially be closed to the press.
December 8, 2012 at 12:25 AM
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December 8, 2012 at 2:28 PM
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December 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM
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December 8, 2012 at 1:37 AM
Here we go,its all about to kick off i hope the stuff we have been disusing remains hypothetical http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/12/07/US-troops-mass-on-Turkeys-Syrian-border/UPI-13431354867200/