Syria to enter conflict if Lebanon invaded: minister
dontcowerfromthetruth
MADRID, July 23, 2006 (AFP) - A Syrian minister warned Israel in an
interview published Sunday that a major ground incursion into Lebanon
would draw his country into the Middle East conflict.
"If Israel makes a land entry into Lebanon, they can get to within 20
kilometres (12 miles) of Damascus," Information Minister Moshen Bilal
told the Spanish newspaper ABC.
"What will we do? Stand by with our arms folded? Absolutely not.
Without any doubt Syria will intervene in the conflict." Bilal said
Syria wanted above all a ceasefire "as soon as possible" combined with
a prisoner exchange and indicated he was working to that end with
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, whom he met in recent
days in Madrid.
But he added: "I repeat, if Israel makes a land invasion of Lebanon and
gets near us, Syria will not stand by with arms folded. It will enter
the conflict." Israel has said it wants to push Hezbollah militias 20
kilometres north of its border.
Bilal criticised the United States saying that it was "unjustifiable"
that "the superpower is not working for a rapid ceasefire." He rejected
claims by Washington that Damascus has armed Hezbollah, saying that it
offered "moral support" but adding that "we do not finance any
resistance." -AFP
Going after Syria (and then Iran) is accordance with the 'A Clean
Break'/war for Israel agenda which esteemed intelligence author/writer
James Bamford discusses on pages 261-269/321 of his 'A Pretext for War'
book (scroll down to pages 261-269 at the following URL):
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=28769
Pat Buchanan: No, This Is Not 'Our War' (it's Israel's war):
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=56303