According to media in the Middle East, the Israeli raid in Syria was done to bomb some nuclear facilities in Syria. Some American officials have been claiming that Syria was using its territory to store material from North Korea. Meanwhile, the Syrian information Minister, Mohsen Bilal, has been explaining that the whole issue was an American tentative to cover the failure to solve the Israeli crisis.
Source: Asharq Al Awsat, Al Rai
But according to others sources, it is in U.S. interests to spread those allegations, and to support their Israeli ally. And as Syria is Iran’s ally, U.S. are attacking them through a proxy. This article is really relevant.
Source: Al Khaleej
Israeli air raid in Syria raises speculation
Published: September 12, 2007, 14:04
London: A mysterious Israeli air raid in Syria may have been triggered by suspicions Damascus is building nuclear arms, to test new Syrian air defences or to stop Iranian weapons reaching Hezbollah, US and Western officials say.
Amid widespread media speculation and a blanket silence from the Israeli and US governments, however, nothing is certain.
An Israeli government spokesman again on Wednesday declined all comment on the incident, over which Syria has complained to the United Nations saying Israeli aircraft "dropped munitions".
The US government, for which Syria forms part of a hostile alliance with Iran and Hezbollah, has also declined to comment.
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday called the episode "spilt milk" but gave no details of what actually did happen and insisted that Israel still wanted peace with Syria.
But Israeli public radio stations, which like all media in the country are under military censorship, led Wednesday's bulletins with a New York Times report that US officials said Israel did carry out an air strike on Sept. 6 and that US officials believed Syria may have obtained nuclear material.
Israeli newspapers gave prominent coverage to a CNN report quoting US sources saying that Israeli aircraft and possibly ground troops struck Iranian arms bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, with which Israel fought a war last year.
One US diplomatic source told Reuters that Deir az-Zor, the northeastern area where Syria said the Israeli bombs caused no damage, was suspected by US officials of being the focus of some form of cooperation on nuclear weapons with North Korea.
However, another US official and former US intelligence officials said this seemed unlikely and technically difficult.
In Vienna, two senior diplomats familiar with the International Atomic Energy Agency said they knew of no serious suspicions of nuclear links between Syria and North Korea.
The New York Times quoted an unnamed Pentagon official saying Israeli jets struck at least one target in northeastern Syria but adding that it was not clear what was hit.
The New York Times quoted US officials saying Israel's most likely targets in Syria were Iranian arms for Hezbollah, against whom Israel fought a month-long war last year.
Source: Gulf News
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