Posted on 09/09/2007 10:56:11 AM PDT by jhpigott
Syria was reportedly calling its reserve forces. The Daily newspaper an-Nahar, in an un-attributed report, said Syria has "called to service part of its reserve force."
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday that Israel cannot always expose its military operations to the public.
"The security sources and IDF soldiers are demonstrating unusual courage," said Olmert, according to Haaretz. "We naturally cannot always show the public our cards."
The Israeli leader did not specifically refer to Syria's outrage after Israeli jets violated its airspace early Thursday. Olmert's remarks, however, come amid an ongoing Israeli blackout regarding the Syrian charges.
Cabinet ministers and senior Israeli officers refused to comment on or off the record on the incident.
The newspaper added Syria is still undecided on its response to the flyover. The Israeli army, however, has reportedly lowered its state of alert on the Syrian border compared to last week.
Meanwhile, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem will on Sunday present the Turkish leadership with evidence that the Israeli airplanes indeed violated Syrian airspace, according to the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. Moallem will arrive in Ankara on Sunday, and is scheduled to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan as well as his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan. Prior to departing for Turkey, Moallem will meet with European Union envoys in Damascus.
© 2007 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
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Israel was just returning some of those kadusha rockets to their country of manufacture.
Could it be that an air strike on Iran is in the works using our new F-16’s?
What?
Did those hot-tipped cruise missiles that hitch-hiked from Minot to Looziana on a B52 find another helpful eastbound commuter?
Ain’t it great when psywar baffles folks?
I say it’s t.Time to finish the Assad menace.
Syria has been calling up the reserves frequently. Well, at least it is a paycheck of sorts. Not a large paycheck but better than no paycheck. They do get paid, don’t they?
I don’t think Syria is gonna do jack, it would just be that much worse for them.
Two things:
1. More to this than met or meets the eye. When IAF went booming over Assad’s summer palace last year, fifty feet off the deck, other than strongly worded protests and perhaps laundry expenses, little escalation was pursued. No international protests, no formal investigations, and critically, no changes in defensive readiness state on either side of the border.
I suspect that IAF’s dropped “ammunitions” hit more than we’ve been told.
2. Mobilization of “part of” Syria’s reserve force looks more to me like posturing. If the balloon ever goes up, both IDF and Syria will call up all reserves, the reservist’s dogs, and perhaps even press Alzheimer’s patients back into active duty.
i agree, the IAF must have really rattled their cages something fierce considering a supersonic overflight of the good doctor’s palace last year drew little more than a verbal denouncement
i also hear they are going to lodge a formal complaint with the UNSC.
Formal complaint, that’s almost funny.
Of course, given date of filing precedence, I’d think Syria would have to answer charges regarding their involvement in the assassination of Lebanon’s President first, but this IS the UN we’re talking about, so maybe not.
I’d sure like to know what IAF blew up though.
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