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Israel
conducted air strike inside Syria
By Agence France-Presse
09/11/07 "AFP"
-- -- WASHINGTON -- Israel carried out a rare air strike
inside Syria last week targeting a shipment of arms, CNN
reported Tuesday quoting US government and military sources.
Israeli officials have so far maintained a veil of silence over
Syrian reports that Israeli warplanes violated its airspace on
Thursday ratcheting up the tension between the neighboring foes
still officially at war.
Reporter Christiane Amanpour said Tuesday on the Cable News
Network (CNN) that "sources now are telling me that in fact
Israel did conduct a military strike against Syrian territory.
That it was an air strike, that it perhaps involved Israeli
ground forces."
She added it was believed the strike targeted "weapons that were
either coming into Syria or that were being trans-shipped from
Iran through Syria to Hezbollah."
US government and US military officials had told CNN that Israel
did conduct a rare air strike inside Syria and "it has left a
big hole in the desert," she added.
Syria said its air defenses had opened fire on Israeli warplanes
flying over the northeast of the country in the early hours of
Thursday and warned it was weighing its response to the Israeli
"aggression."
But Israeli officials have made no comment on the allegations,
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.
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