CNN: Israel Bombed Iranian Arms in Syria Last Week

CNN: Israel Bombed Iranian Arms in Syria Last Week

September 11, 2007 : Arutz Sheva : Israel - NN.com

Israel's reported entry to Syrian airspace last week was actually a full-fledged attack on Iranian arms transferred through Syria for use by the Hizbullah, according to CNN. The CNN report, which quotes "sources in the region and in the United States," also claims a ground operation of troops directing the air strikes was part of the attack. The report said the operation left a “great hole in the desert” and quotes anonymous sources calling the transfer of weapons from Iran a "a pattern over the past three or four years which has occurred without any retaliation or action taken against it." CNN also said the US is “pleased” with the operation, which sent a “clear message” to the region.

Israel Hit Syrian Base Financed by Iran
September 12, 2007 AFP Khaleej Times Online
JERUSALEM - Israeli warplanes last week bombed and destroyed a northern Syrian missile base that was financed by Iran, an Arab Israeli newspaper reported on Wednesday. Citing anonymous Israeli sources, the Assennara newspaper said that Israeli jets “bombed in northern Syria a Syrian-Iranian missile base financed by Iran... It appears that the base was completely destroyed.” Syria on Tuesday lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations over the “flagrant violation” of its airspace last Thursday, during which it said its air defences opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying over the northeast of the country. Israeli officials have refused to comment on the report, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “specifically instructed ministers not to talk about the incident related to Syria at all,” one senior Israeli government official said. A US defence official said on Tuesday that Israel had launched an air strike well inside Syria, apparently to send Damascus a message not to rearm Shiite Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The official did not know the target of the strike. “The Israelis are trying to tell the Syrians: “Don’t support a resurgence of Hezbollah in Lebanon.’” Israel fought a devastating 34-day war in July and August 2006 against Hezbollah, whose missile firepower and use of sophisticated weaponry surprised the Israelis. CNN said the strike, which could have also involved the use of ground forces, was believed to have targeted weapons either coming into Syria or moving through Syria from Iran to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.