Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots in Syria
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reports that Israel is preparing to strike Hezbollah targets within Syria, including long-range rocket depots; Syrian military is reportedly on high alert.
By Jack Khoury and Haaretz Service
Israel is planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported on Saturday.
The report is based on Western sources who asserted that Israel has increased its military force level along the northern border in the Golan Heights and Mount Dov areas.
The report cited European sources who claimed that recent Israeli unmanned aerial drone flights over Lebanon and Syria signal Israel’s intentions to carry out operations in the area.
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Israel Air Force F-16 taking off on a mission. |
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According to the report, Israel plans to attack Hezbollah weapons depots, including ones deep inside Syria that store long-range rockets.
The Al Rai report said that the situation on the Israel-Syria border is tense and that Syria could respond immediately to any Israeli attack and not demonstrate the restraint that it did after the Israeli Air Force bombed a nuclear reactor in Syria in the fall of 2007.
According to the report, Syria’s military is on high alert and is strengthening its anti-aircraft defenses along the border with Israel and at strategic sites within Syria.
WarSclerotic 
August 29, 2010 at 2:06 AM
If the U.S. is serious about helping Israel then this may just be a small part of what will happen or a diversion also while more powerful measures take place around the Nation of Israel and the U.S. might be involved too, ESPECIALLY IF THE U.S. has worked something out with the Russian and the Chinese. I really don`t think Iran can do for the world what the U.S. can do and I don`t think that they ahve as much backing as the Iranians think they do either.