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This file photo shows fire and smoke rising after shells exploded in the Syrian village of Bariqa, close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, near Alonei Habashan on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, Nov. 7, 2012.
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military has fired a missile into Syria, the first time Israel has been drawn into the fighting in the neighboring country.
The military said it fired the missile as a warning shot on Sunday after a stray mortar from Syria hit a military post in the Golan Heights. Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and subsequently annexed it.
The military says no damage or injuries were reported inside Israel.
A string of mortar shells have struck the Golan during the Syrian civil war. Israel views the fire as accidental, but nonetheless has warned that it holds Syria responsible.
It came as Syrian opposition groups, meeting in the Qatari capital Doha, signed an initial agreement to form a new coalition of forces fighting to end the rule of President Bashar Assad.
"An initial deal has been signed. The evening session will be for electing the president of the body and his deputy," Ali Sadreddine al-Bayanouni, a Muslim Brotherhood delegate, told reporters in Doha.
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Ann Curry photographs Syrian rebels and others affected by the conflict.
The new body, made up of groups inside and outside Syria, would be called the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, delegates said.
The group's leader, once chosen, will automatically become the focal point for opposition activities.
U.S. diplomats and officials from Qatar, which has bankrolled opposition to Assad and played a major role in Arab diplomacy against him, have prodded the players over the past week to come to an arrangement.
Thousands have fled violence in Syria in the last 24 hours, with many Syrian refugees now sheltering in Turkish camps. In his latest interview, Syrian President Assad says his army is trying to avoid civilian deaths. NBC's John Ray reports.
The parties were close to a deal in the early hours of Sunday after Qatari and United Arab Emirates officials pressed them to agree, but it appeared to fall through when the meeting broke up at 3 a.m.
The Syrian National Council (SNC), which has led overseas opposition activity over the past year, had lost the confidence of Washington and other powers who saw it as ineffective and riven with personal disputes.
The new plan involves a 55- or 60-member assembly alongside a military council including rebel groups such as the Free Syrian Army and a judicial council.
It will seek to obtain international recognition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people and form a ten-member government-in-waiting, SNC member Wael Merza told Reuters.
At the talks in Doha bringing together various opposition groups, the SNC had been concerned at being sidelined in the wider body, a U.S.-backed proposal presented by prominent dissident Riad Seif.
As fighting rages in Syria with heavy air raids, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. would push for a major revamp in Syria's opposition leadership. NBC's Keith Miller reports.
A source inside the meeting said the SNC had asked to continue the talks on Sunday but that it would be a "last chance", suggesting that opposition figures behind the U.S.-backed initiative are threatening to go ahead without the SNC.
International backers of the opposition fear that rapidly changing events on the ground could lead to Assad's rule collapsing and jihadist militias seizing the initiative in a power vacuum if no opposition body abroad is in a position to step in immediately.
Anti-Assad protests erupted nearly 20 months ago, meeting a violent response which led to a conflict that has cost more than 38,000 lives and threatens to spill into neighboring countries
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Some right wing NUT said: "75% of journalists in America are registered Democrats." "No stinkin' facts", as ususal, are needed by the party of Kleenex and Depends. Republicans are the embodiment of bull@!$%#!
Yes, I know. I used to be one.
how dare the Syrian's fire a missle in the land we stole from them- now that they are in a civil war we should grab more land- good idea and we'll have the US support us- we cant loose- we have the right to steal land in the Middle East and if anyone interfers it's an act of war
freelunch,
Exactly when and how did anyone steal anyone's land....and where?
Freelunch, your nickname says it all. You are an idiot.
Exterminating "Poli Ticks" would help .
Politics? Right to exist as a nation, stupid.
Typical. Lead with a Headline claiming Israel is in the wrong. Should have read "Syria fires mortars at Israel".
Kick everyone's ass, Israel. Do whatever you have to do!! You won't get any moral support from the current p(utz in The White House.
That's for sure. Nobama is going to support his Muslim Brotherhood.
Right now this administration could not save 4 Americans in Benghazi. They are so bad right now they can not give a correct answer about anything. Their time line of incident is Off on every detail. Israel would be better without else because our leaders could not be trusted. I think we should be asking Israel to help us. Because our Leaders brag about how they killed an unarmed dying Osama bin Laden. But we could not protect our 4 Americans in Benghazi. Our Leader is weak!!! Which makes our military weak. This administration needs to be charge with Treason!!! Right Away!! Before anymore Americans would be killed. It's Amazing how MSN doesn't even talk about The Time Line In Benghazi. But in today headlines they are talking about how they kill Osama bin Laden. Get ready the for the China March of Hell. Do you really think we are ready against these Guys. In Benghazi there was only Twenty attackers and we failed to protect our 4 Americans against them. Hey!! We saw the nice picture of our administration watching Osama bin Laden being killed. Were is the picture of them watching the 4 Americans being killed. Propaganda and Treason!!!! This Administration makes me sick and for the Americans that voted them back in makes me sicker... I pray for Seal Team 6 because they were used as a propaganda tool and this administration should not of let the public no who did what??? This Was TOP SECRET. TREASON ALL THE WAY!!!!
Perhaps we should follow Israel's example, in dealing with the Country to the South of the U.S.
In the Mideast Pandora's Box is opened, right or wrong the final games begin...
The border problem to the south could be solved readily by prosecuting the employers of cheap illegal labor, thereby stemming the tide and allowing the resources available to concentrate on the smuggling of illegal drugs.. namely meth and cocaine. Mexico is also rethinking it's position on how it will pursue the marijuana trade, since it's becoming obvious that it is very popular in a good many of the so called blue states which elected our current president.
Israel's problems will continue as long as Muslim Mullahs continue to indoctrinate their youth with the belief that Israel must be destroyed. A religious war cannot be won with political means.
Israel knows what they are doing. Plain and simple they are smart and have a very powerfull army. If Syria even tries to send a missile at Israel they will have no idea about what will be coming to them. Israel has deserved its right to exist. If Iran or any other country disagrees and does something to harm Israel, they will regret it. Israel doesn't need the USA to back them up, it would help but they don't need it. Syria started the conflict with Israel they shouldn't have started something they can't finish.
Violence begets more violence. Do not worry though, this will all end soon when the Lord of this Universe, the very creator of this world and every living creature on it puts an end to this violence with the power that is his alone, for this is what he has shown me, waves taller than any mountain on earth, washing over it with a violence none could believe, that never was before or would ever be again. fifty thousand foot high walls of terror ending all life on this beautiful world we call home. There was no life left anywhere, no remnant, all was washed away into oblivion. This is your fate all you who worship violence.
...HERE WE GO--the opportunists are getting on the act.....
Syria started this and the Nation of Israel responded accordingly. Our administration under the annointed one Obama, has evaded Lybia. I fear we are headed for a war in the world and who is Obama going to blame? Bush
Now that the US elections are over and the results are in. I will bet Israel will start bombing Iran nuke plants before the end of the year. I am sure the Israeli government now feels totally alone and on its own.
They should turn Iran into a parking lot.
i applaud our veterans and all who have fought for our country!! our flag is flying out on my pourch !! those of you who criticise our president or the direction this nation is going , what ever it may be the majority of the people have chosen it !! i do not like all of obamas policies nor did i like all of george bushes but it is what our nation chose and i will support who ever is leading our nation !! I am 65 and i come from the old school where i was raised to believe pride in our nation comes first !! in my mind those who can not come to terms with or even begin to except our leadership can move to mexico or anyother lovely country !!!
ahhhh just a little act of stark agression as usual and what did ithe idiot mean when he said isreal had never been a muslim country the level if ignorance is amazing here
Hey don't we have a unit called The Delta Force,or Seal Team six, or Recon?! Stop this BS of prolonging this ,it's inevitable. Pre-emptive is the call,now make the call u fools!!!!Semper Fe!!!
God bless Rachael Corrie.
Israel - Get the hell off Syrian land, the Golan Heights belongs to Syria.
We are NOT the United States of Israel - America first.
You must be totally clueless of history. But hey your right f em let Israel get over run and an entire country and its people be exterminated, what the hell it will make for good TV.
Gary...you have the audacity to speak of genocide. Guess you forgot about the millions of Jews and others slaughtered by Hitler. The followers of Islam want nothing more than annialation of the Jews. It doesn't matter-we Christians know the end of the story-God, Israel and good triumphs over the evil.
Im not sure many know about the Syrian freedom fighters or have knowledge of where they come from.
Surprise.......... Kosovo, the drug trafficking center for heroin for Europe, the UK and the United States.
The Muslim forces seek to control and arm themselves by getting the world hooked on drugs.
Dont believe me? Serbia fought against these dark forces and NATO rewarded them by bombing them into the stone age. Drugs and human organs, human trafficking........ These are the results, the contributions of the Kosovo freedom fighters. NATO knew from the onset and looked the other way. Good Luck America
It's true...when America bombed the Serbs...they bombed the wrong side..
Your taking propaganda and lies. America was the one who persuaded NATO to bomb, because of mass murder and ethnic cleansing.
You know what: "Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and subsequently annexed it." means??? Israel stole someones land and is now firing missiles at them. But they are the bad guys cause they want to fight against people who do that sort of thing to them.
Your just one more brainwashed slave in this world, if countries just respected each other and worked together to compromise on problems things would be okay, but just like in the USA there are always you conservatives creeping around trying to destroy everything decent people try to build -like a working healthcare system.
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Here's another conflict that we should stay the hell out of.
We shot a missile in the air and where it lands we do not care.
From what I know of Isreal. After World War ll, the British gave them this land they live on and Isreal became a country in 1948. A few acres they have gained throughout the years by force and that have caused a lot of conflicts with their muslim neighbors. For some reason we have been involved throughout the years trying to get these two countries to have a peace treaty on them few acres. Before the Jewish people were gave this land from the British, Muslims lived their since the 8th century. For the Jewish people to have peace the muslims were removed from that land. All I know is it's a pickle of a mess that's over my head on solving it where everyone can live in peace. Let's just blame it on our friends, the Brits. and let them deal with what they created.
Initially the British tried to settle the Jews in Uganda, but the Jews refused the offer after visiting the area and deemed it too dangerous.
Now .... That's ironic.
@deb-3232690, a good post and the British have much to answer for, and you should read
"Churchill's Folly. How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq." by Christopher Catherwood.
I do not know Pres. Obama's reason for returning the bust of Churchill to Britian but it did my
heart good. The personal is political and I will leave it at that.
deb, you are wrong on two counts. One, the British did not give the land to the Israelis...the Israelis fought them for it, aided by their mentors in the IRA. Two, when Israel became a country in 1948 thanks to a UN vote, the Arabs attacked...and lost. And, ex, the Zionists did not go to Uganda because they knew that that would be plain imperialism...especially after they had BOUGHT so much land in the Middle East.
The zionist are a plague... they bring war, greed and overall the attitude that everyone OWES them somethings. I'm not Muslim.... but I do have Muslim friends and they are by far more peaceful and easier to get along with then zionists...
Organized religions are responsible for most of the wars in history. I have my own private religious beliefs, but they do not align with ANY organized religion. Religious zealots of all stripes have just caused far too many problems.