Posted on 09/11/2007 8:52:32 AM PDT by maquiladora
CNN says incident in which Israeli planes allegedly invaded Syrian airspace was actually an attack on Iranian weapons transferred to Syria; operation apparently included ground forces, report says
CNN news network reported Tuesday evening that the incident in which Israeli planes allegedly invaded Syrian airspace was actually an attack on Iranian weapons transferred to Syria.
According to the report, the incident involved aerial operation that also included ground forces that were meant to mark targets or inspect the damage caused by the attack.
It was also reported that the operation left "a great whole in the ground" in the Syrian desert. The report was based mainly on sources in the American government and it was noted that Israel was satisfied with the operation's results.
The report said Israel apparently targeted a type of weapon transferred through Syria to Hizbullah from Iran.
Sources told CNN reporter Christiana Amanpour that weapons have been transferred in this way for the past three or four years uninterruptedly.
Hours before CNN report was broadcasted, Syria appealed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council, and warned Israel of "the consequences of this atrocious aggression."
In the message sent to the United Nations, it was written that Syria "claims that the continued silence on the part of the international community regarding Israel's illegal actions will put the region, peace, and security of both countries at risk of uncontrollable tragic consequences."
The Syrian letters to the UN argued that Israel "insists on taking aggressive steps instead of peace, and by doing so is exposing its true policies that it has been hiding behind false claims of efforts towards peace in the region."
If true...that’s definitely a good thing.
Military operations do not often leave a great whole.
Well I certainly hope this is true. So we kind of have a state of war between Israel, Syria, and Iran? Holy cow this could get intresting.
Now we’ll NEVER prove that Saddam’s WMDs were there! < /sarc >
No wonder the Iranians complained so loudly. F’em!!
Doesn’t sound like something Olmert would have signed off on.
EXCELLENT
Good for the IDF!
ping
i guess no more freebies for the transfer of weapons from Iran, via Syria to Hizbullah
let’s see if they impotent Iranians/Syrians/Hezbollah have any meaningful response other than whining to the UN
Don’t tell me. Ehud grew a freaking spine?
More like Barak as defense minister saw something he didn’t like on its way to Southern Lebanon and decided to send a message to the Boy President.
Nice work by the Nice Jewish Boys.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Wonder whether it also left a hugh whole...
It’s a transcript written by Ynet, an Israeli news agency, they commonly make slight grammatical mistakes.
It was probably a series whole, too.
Hold on a minute. Where was the UN resolution permitting the use of force? Hmm? Couldn’t sanctions have worked? /sarcoff
Reporter Christiane Amanpour said Tuesday on the Cable News Network (CNN) that "sources now are telling me that in fact Israel did conduct a military strike against Syrian territory. That it was an air strike, that it perhaps involved Israeli ground forces."
She added it was believed the strike targeted "weapons that were either coming into Syria or that were being trans-shipped from Iran through Syria to Hezbollah."
US government and US military officials had told CNN that Israel did conduct a rare air strike inside Syria and "it has left a big hole in the desert," she added.
Syria said its air defenses had opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying over the northeast of the country in the early hours of Thursday and warned it was weighing its response to the Israeli "aggression."
But Israeli officials have made no comment on the allegations, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "specifically instructed ministers not to talk about the incident related to Syria at all," one senior Israeli government official said.
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