"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Backyard Renegade wrote:

Let me ask a question here. Is it at all possible that the
convoys
of
trucks tracked into Seria the last few weeks while the French,
Russians, and Germans held the majority of the member countries
back,
were the very carefully accounted for WMD moving to the Bekka
(sp?)
valley in Lebanon? Could we really know where they are

As to your question, certainly it is possible, but it is unlikely.
The
Israelis, who are far more sophisticated in these matters than we
are,
would have noticed.

Hehehe. You haven't been paying attention. The Israeli's *did*
notice.
Read:

Syria denies hiding Iraqi weapons
Sharon: Israel investigating reports
Wednesday, December 25, 2002 Posted: 3:13 PM EST (2013 GMT)



A bit naive about the Israelis, are we?

Me, naive? You said "the Israeli's would have noticed" convoys of large
trucks heading into Syria. I told you they already *did* notice...and I
provided a link from ONE YEAR AGO to prove it.

What's your spin now that you've been made to eat your words?



And the follow-up to a nothing report is?

I'm waiting.


Actions sometimes speak louder than words. You guys jumped all over Bush's
"saber rattling" prior to the March 9th invasion because you said it gave
Saddam too much time to conceal his WMD's. It seems that the Israeli's and
the US are slowly escalating the pressure on Assad militarily and
economically...but without the oratory.

Read (from janes.com):


03 December 2003
Syria's fear

The Israeli military intelligence service, Aman, has informed the government
that the Syrian leader, President Bashar Al-Assad, has instructed his army
to get ready for an Israeli military attack.

He has also called for a resumption of peace talks with Israel. But Israel,
under the leadership of the hardline expansionist, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, does not take Assad's call for a resumption of negotiations
seriously, especially when Sharon apparently has no intentions whatsoever of
withdrawing from the Golan heights, which has artillery batteries within
firing range of Damascus, the Syrian capital.

In open provocation of Syria, Israel has been conducting air force flights
over Syrian airfields, barracks and other military interests, and has
attacked 'terrorist' targets within Syrian territory. On 5 October, Israeli
F-16 jets bombed an empty Palestinian training base near Damascus. It was
the first assault on Syrian soil in 30 years and the Syrians were stunned,
failed to retaliate and were mocked throughout the Arab world for letting
the Israelis humiliate them. In October, eight Israeli F-15's crossed the
international border with Lebanon, flew over Beirut and all the way over the
35,000 Syrian troops stationed in northern Lebanon.

"For several weeks now, Israel has been provoking and humiliating Damascus,"
wrote Brigadier-General Shlomo Gazit, a former head of Israeli military
intelligence, in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonot. "Whoever flies at
supersonic speed over the Syrian presidential palace humiliates the
sovereign and proud leader of a neighbouring country. Whoever boasts in
public of doing so adds insult to injury."

An Israeli military intelligence report indicates that Syria is convinced
that Sharon is determined to attack Syria for domestic political reasons,
and that he believes he has backing from the pro-Israeli Bush
administration.

Last month, both houses of US Congress passed the 'Syria Accountability Act'
with an overwhelming majority in favour of imposing sanctions on the Syrian
government, citing its support of suicide bombers and other terrorists among
its justifications. This appears to have encouraged Sharon further along the
path to escalating conflict and undermined any further possibility of
dialogue between Syria and the USA.