WAR: Reports suggest US may attack Syria next, page 1

The Israeli media have supposedly been informed as to the US plans to attack Syria next. According to The Jerusalem Post, Donald Rumsfeld and a number of Pentagon officials back this attack, planned by President Bush.

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"US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the civilian echelons of the Pentagon have proposed that President George Bush instigate military actions against Syria".

Apparantly the first phase of the attack will be small strikes in order to take down Syrian defences. The reasons being given are the same as Iraq, WMD and terrorism.

www.jpost.com

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the civilian echelons of the Pentagon have proposed that President George Bush instigate military actions against Syria due to its continued support for Hizbullah and enabling terrorists to enter Iraq from its border.

Reports received by the Night Rider news group in Washington, operations will not include large-scale military intervention, in spite of
several Pentagon officials' belief that Syria should be the next to go after Iraq. The Defense Department is considering punitive aerial attacks and Special Forces incursions.

The initiative is presently being rejected by Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Richard Meyers and by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the State Department.

It's funny how Israel know before US people are informed isn't it? If it's true that is. At least they wont make me vomit by saying it's liberation this time...at least I hope not.

[Edited on 15-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
Nerdling Edit: I changed this to "may attack" due to the objectivity being comprimised by the nationhood of the sources.

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[Edited on 16-3-2004 by SkepticOverlord]

Yeah your right Seekerof. The US and UK have asked Syria to disarm of their WMD, they say they wont comply until Israel do the same. You know...the ones that apparantly don't exist and no one's allowed to inspect.
I think that's a fair request, I wouldn't want to show my hand until my enemy did likewise either.

news.bbc.co.uk...

"Tony Blair has repeated his calls for Syria to abandon any development of weapons of mass destruction..."

"...Syria's president is reported to have said he would not comply until Israel abandons its nuclear weapons programme."

news.bbc.co.uk...

While Israel has never admitted to having nuclear weapons, few international experts question the Jewish state's presence on the world's list of nuclear powers.
Its nuclear capability is arguably the most secretive weapons of mass destruction programme in the world.

Unlike Iran and North Korea - two countries whose alleged nuclear ambitions have recently come to the fore - Israel has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, designed to prevent the global spread of nuclear weapons.
As a result, it is not subject to inspections and the threat of sanctions by the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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