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United States planning new military presence in Lebanon including large air installation near the Syrian border
The US plans new military presence in Lebanon including big air installation close by Syrian border October 9, 2007, 9:42 PM (GMT+02:00) http://debka.com/pictures/Lebanon_Syria.jpg. The air base, according to DEBKAfile's military sources, will be located at Kleiat in northern Lebanon roughly 75 air miles from Damascus, which these days doubles as a shared Syrian-Iranian military hub and Tehran's eastern Mediterranean forward base. The American air installation will also lie 22 air miles from Tartous, Syria's main naval base and the Russian Mediterranean fleet's command center. And the aircraft posted there will be minutes away from the joint Syrian- Iranian arms and missiles industries at Homs and Hamma. DEBKAfile's source report the Bush administration's drastic change of policy on Lebanon was settled in consultations at the Pentagon and National Security Council after the talks the chief of the US Central Command Adm. William Fallon held with Lebanese government heads on July 29. This new direction was confirmed after the Israeli air raid over Syria of Sept. 6. It brings the American military back to Lebanon after a 25-year absence. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan pulled US troops out of the country after Syrian military intelligence orchestrated terrorist bombing attacks on the US embassy and Marines headquarters in Beirut, which left more than 300 soldiers, diplomats and CIA agents dead. The first stage of construction will reactivate the small defunct air base at Kleiat as a joint US-Lebanese venture. Prime minister Fouad Siniora will explain that the four months of bloody fighting to crush the Fatah al-Islam revolt in the northern Nahar al-Bared camp demonstrated how badly the Lebanese army needs an operational air base in the region. US Air Force engineers and technicians have begun work on the new air field. At a later stage, it will be expanded for American military use. http://debka.com/headline.php?hid=4659 |
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United States planning new military presence in Lebanon including large air installation near the Syrian border
On Oct 9, 5:51 pm, AirRaid wrote:
The US plans new military presence in Lebanon including big air installation close by Syrian border October 9, 2007, 9:42 PM (GMT+02:00) http://debka.com/pictures/Lebanon_Syria.jpg. The air base, according to DEBKAfile's military sources, will be located at Kleiat in northern Lebanon roughly 75 air miles from Damascus, which these days doubles as a shared Syrian-Iranian military hub and Tehran's eastern Mediterranean forward base. The American air installation will also lie 22 air miles from Tartous, Syria's main naval base and the Russian Mediterranean fleet's command center. And the aircraft posted there will be minutes away from the joint Syrian- Iranian arms and missiles industries at Homs and Hamma. DEBKAfile's source report the Bush administration's drastic change of policy on Lebanon was settled in consultations at the Pentagon and National Security Council after the talks the chief of the US Central Command Adm. William Fallon held with Lebanese government heads on July 29. This new direction was confirmed after the Israeli air raid over Syria of Sept. 6. It brings the American military back to Lebanon after a 25-year absence. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan pulled US troops out of the country after Syrian military intelligence orchestrated terrorist bombing attacks on the US embassy and Marines headquarters in Beirut, which left more than 300 soldiers, diplomats and CIA agents dead. The first stage of construction will reactivate the small defunct air base at Kleiat as a joint US-Lebanese venture. Prime minister Fouad Siniora will explain that the four months of bloody fighting to crush the Fatah al-Islam revolt in the northern Nahar al-Bared camp demonstrated how badly the Lebanese army needs an operational air base in the region. US Air Force engineers and technicians have begun work on the new air field. At a later stage, it will be expanded for American military use. http://debka.com/headline.php?hid=4659 Why use a base in Lebanon when there are all those nifty ones in Israel and Iraq? |
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