Posted on 08/01/2006 5:59:32 AM PDT by areafiftyone
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Assad tells Syrian army to step up state of readiness and takes two further provocative steps
August 1, 2006, 1:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian military intelligence agents detonated a bomb at the Golan border fence near Kuneitra, though causing no casualties, and the Syrian president put defense minister Gen. Hassan Turkemeni in charge of military assistance to Hizballah. He also instructed chief of staff Gen. Ali Habib to personally oversee Syrian-Iranian cooperation for military consignments to Hizballah.
In his order of the day to the Syrian army, Bashar Assad wrote: “I call on all units, divisions, brigades and battalions to redouble their training efforts and maintain a high state of readiness. Remember that every drop of sweat you invest in training will save a drop of blood when the time comes.”
He added: “Threats from the ‘masters of the world’ (US and Israel) telling us to beware will not divert us from our path.”
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources add: For three weeks, Assad has been working up to provoking a limited war engagement with Israel.
1. A close crony, Syrian lawmaker Marwan Habash is advocating the creation of a resistance (terrorist) movement on the Golan Heights - likewise the prominent cleric, Sheikh Asad Kopertou.
2. For the first time in three decades the presidential palace allowed Syrian Druze leaders to openly speak out in favor of an armed campaign to recapture the Golan Heights.
Israeli intelligence leaders are not of one mind about what these steps signify. Some diagnose posturing by Damascus to get in on the Lebanon act while not taking the chance of a missile war with Israel; others argue that the Syrian president must be angling for a limited military confrontation, otherwise he would not so blatantly parade his backing for the Hizballah.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
They are not going to do a damn thing, because the IDF will kick their asses back to Damascus in a heartbeat!
....Syrian military intelligence agents detonated a bomb...
Syria is pretending to be involved when in fact at this late stage in the game, has been rendered harmless. Syria was passed over.
At least they know who the Masters of the World are.
Too bad the IDF doesn't start following the trucks bringing rockets from Syria right back up the road.........ending at Asshat's front door. Might bring about a little faster cease-fire.
Shame he didn't order the army and its armor to mobilize towards the Golan :-)
Damascus - 2006? ;-)
Wonder what the view from Mt Bental is these days?
Only because they want someone left to sell their oil to.
It is interesting, but with Debka's history, the grain of salt needs to be large enough to be seen from space! Interesting post though.
So, if Damascus would cease to exist, become a large glass parking lot, would the remaining land then become Israel?
the Syrian president put defense minister Gen. Hassan Turkemeni in charge of military assistance to Hizballah. He also instructed chief of staff Gen. Ali Habib to personally oversee Syrian-Iranian cooperation for military consignments to Hizballah.After the 1973 defeat of Syria, at least two of the Syrian generals were dragged (already dead I think, but who knows) through the streets of Damascus by order of this dictator's dad.
While Debka's reputation means that anything from it should be taken with a bit of salt until proven otherwise, if this turns out to be true, then Assad Junior is about to put himself in line for a great big @ss-whipping.
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