3 killed outside U.S. embassy in Syria ..

DAMASCUS, Syria - Gunmen apparently blew up a car outside the U.S. Embassy and exchanged fire with Syrian guards on Tuesday in a brazen attack on Damascus' diplomatic neighborhood. Syrian security forces killed three of the attackers, the government said.
The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said a fourth assailant was wounded in what it called a "terrorist attack." The report, carried on state-run television, said an investigation was under way.
In Washington, a State Department spokesman confirmed the attack on the American Embassy by "unknown assailants" and said the event appears to be over.
"Local authorities have responded and are on the scene," spokesman Kurtis Cooper said. He said he had no further information.
A Syrian who works at the U.S. Embassy said there were no American casualities..

Ok where this is heading now ? Your views

Swamp! Bad news! :(

Ok where this is heading now ? Your views

Just another day in that dump known as Syria.

Just another day in that dump known as Syria.

For the Americans ?

For the Americans ?

No ma'am. For everyone.

No ma'am. For everyone.:think: What the heck are you on about ????

I think everyone is happy and it's all finished. The Syrians did a good job and we are grateful.

We have a strange relationship with the Syrians. (I'm talking about governments, not people.) We don't love each other, but we sometimes need each other. So we do a strange dance, a very strange dance! Which one is using the other one? Sometimes it's hard to tell. Probably both and that's why the dance if so odd...

Syria is a fascinating country though, that has suffered much more than most countries in the region. And suffered in its pride, too. Many Syrians feel that Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel, and some of Turkey should all be part of Syria; that they were taken away by the imperial powers. And they have a good case, actually. And they are the only country in the region that automatically grants Palestinian refugees citizenship. Originally, because they think all Palestinians are really Syrians.

A fascinating place. I'd like to visit one day.

Red Dot! I think you've got your very own special ways! Disscussing things with people shouldn't really be the way you do it mate, use to be like that a while ago! Chill for a bit than come back! It's only an opinion! No hard feelings buddy! :)

.......I am surprised they didn't just let those guys have at it.......give em the keys to the front gate.....

Syrians defending the US embassy, what next?

The surprising thing about this is that the Syrian president doesn't seem to have the total 100% control that his papa had.......when that guy sneezed, the entire country ran for the tissue box......

Indeed Syria got screwed by the Imperialists......so get a ticket and get in line......do the sons of the fathers have to pay the price?

fatak

Indeed Syria got screwed by the Imperialists......so get a ticket and get in line......do the sons of the fathers have to pay the price?

fatak

Come on, guy! I wasn't saying that that excused anything. I was just pointing out that Syrians have a particular sensitivity that colors their dealings with others, that's all.

One often hears the phrase from Syrian politicians: "We are all the same people." They use it particularly with regard to Lebanon (where they've never even kept an embassy, but also toward Jordan and Palestine. Breakaway, illegitimate provinces to be returned one day to poor, truncated, what's-left-over Syria, that's how they look at it. It makes them generous and protective on the one hand; possessive and irredentist on the other...

If you don't understand this, you don't understand the Syrian connection to Hezbollah, you don't understand the feelings they bring to peace negotiations with Israel (Palestine isn't just Arab land, it's Syrian land!), or the ins and outs of the complicated friends/enemies dance they do with the US.

Yeah......I did remember hearing the Shaba farms or something was not part of Lebonon but Syria, it was confusing......

ANYWAY, LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE STILL SCORES TO SETTLE.

Otherwise I think the Syrians did a good job protecting the US Embassy, thanks guys!!!!

Let's get together sometime and smoke some shisha.....

fatak