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Iranian Revolutionary Guard sets up base in Syria

At National Review Online's The Corner, Michael Ledeen shares an item he received from the New Reform Party of Syria:

New IRGC base near Homs

RPS News — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an Iranian government terrorist organization, is managing a new training base near the city of Homs located west of Syria and less than 50 km from Lebanon. The base is off-limits but intelligence delivered to RPS indicate that there is no Syrian presence at the base, which makes it a fully operational foreign base and the first of its kind in the country.

It is believed that the base is armed with the second generation of the Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM) with a range of 2,100km able to hit major metropolises in the Middle East including Israel. [Emphasis mine. CiJ]

Too bad Olmert didn't listen when the US told him to attack Syria last summer. This could yet - God forbid - be costly for all of us.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:43 AM