[Stefan Stackhouse]

I don't know about DEBKA's reliability, but just given what is open-sourced, this is probably as close a guess as any as to what is actually going on. It will not turn out to be exactly like this (if the true story ever comes out at all), but it's probably close enough for darts or horseshoes.

[Light Speed]

A few months back an English paper..Times London I believe forwarded a report that the U.S. had confronted Syria with U.N. sanctions violations regarding Iraq.
Satillite photos revealed engines for M-29's...rebuilt engines for T-72'S...SAM'S..and other resupply assets..all coming from ex Soviet block nations to Syria..the overland to Iraq.
Chinese technology is there..above the Fibre optic com link /radar systems.
U.S. has Saddam dead to rights..all he can do is buy time for himself...his fate is sealed.
The denials from Syria and countries like the Czecs is comical..."Who me...we do not have any signed foreign export liscenes with that country"