[Fitzcarraldo]

STRATFOR

http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?selected=Situation%20Reports&sitrep=1&id=271016

Syria: Troops On Maximum Alert July 31, 2006 14 56 GMT

Syrian army units posted on the Lebanese border are on maximum alert, a source in Lebanon reported July 31. Syrian units near the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights have also been reinforced with three brigades from the Iraqi and Turkish borders. Anti-aircraft missile batteries have been spotted by motorists south and east of Syria, as well as along the coast in the northwest.

[jhp]

Stratfor usually has some pretty good sources, couple this with the reports about explosions in the Golan Israel attributes to Syrian forces and this all = the poopoo hitting the fan

[Candor7]

As Syrian Forces all go over to the border with Israel, this is an ideal military opportunity for the US to roll its soldiers into Syria from Iraq, taking the Kurds with them. The Israelis could come from the East catching Syrias military and destroying it completely.

This must be a very tempting target for the US military. No need to occupy Syria, just go in and destroy the military of Syria. Blast it to smithereens.

Then all Syria will have is terrorism as a military option, a much weaker, less organized way to work its ways of deception and violence at Irans suoervision.

What a tempting strategic target!!!!!