Israel is preparing for a possible military intervention in Syria in case the Syrian government hands missiles or chemical weapons to the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday.
"I have instructed the military to increase its intelligence preparations and prepare what is needed so that...(if necessary)...we will be able to consider carrying out an operation," Barak said in an interview on Channel 10 television.
"We are following...the possible transfer of advanced munitions systems, mainly anti-aircraft missiles or heavy ground-to-ground missiles, but there could also be a possibility of the transfer of chemical means (weapons) from Syria to Lebanon," he added.
"The moment (Syrian President Bashar al-Assad) starts to fall we will conduct intelligence monitoring and will liaise with other agencies," Barak said.
Hezbollah, launched thousands of mainly short-range rockets into Israel during Israel's 2006 offensive in southern Lebanon, but some longer-range rockets reached central Israel.
The attacks helped the resistance movement defeat Israel and the frontier between the countries has largely remained quiet since then.
Speaking on Wednesday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah defended Assad against an uprising which he said was led by foreign powers and admitted that weapons used in the 2006 war were provided by Syria.
"The most important missiles that landed in occupied Palestine were manufactured or made in Syria," he said.
On Thursday, Barak toured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau illegally occupied by Israel in 1967.
Barak said Israeli troops were preparing to turn back Syrian refugees fleeing for safety into territory that Israel controls.
"They (refugees) have not chosen to come close to us, but in the event of the regime's downfall, which could happen..., (Israeli forces) here are alert and ready, and if we have to stop waves of refugees, we will stop them," Barak said.
Syrian rebels have assassinated four of Assad's closest aides in Damascus and seized three border crossings with Iraq and Turkey this week, putting the Syrian leader under greater pressure than at any time in the 16-month uprising against his rule.
(Al-Akhbar, Reuters)
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salaam alaikum brother...see, SYRIA WATCH-U.S. MILITARY ''WEST POINT GRADUATE'' SPEAKS OUT ,BLAMES US GOV'T AND GCC ... "Adil" Means "Just" in Arabic by James Ryan http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2012/07/syria-watch-adil-means-just-in-arabic.html
ReplyDeleteMy wife's uncle, Adil, was shot and killed in cold blood in a Damascus street. He had no blackmail money. He was poor. So he was shot. He was shot by killers financed and organized by the USA and Turkey, in particular by Barack Obama and Turkey's prime minister and prime collaborator, and their equally murderous emissaries, agents, and covert collaborators, along with their overt collaborators like the Turkish and American armed forces and the CIA
UK special forces train Syria’s armed rebels http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2012/07/uk-special-forces-train-syrias-armed.html
The Mail admitted that leaders of armed terror groups in Syria have been trained by former SAS soldiers as it claimed that the government of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad would be toppled within four weeks
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