*The fullfilment of your favorite Isaiah 17:1 biblical prophecy, Tony
-- maybe within the next few months -- or years.....
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tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote in message news:<20031005100336.17448.00000272@mb-m16.aol.com>...
Israel Strikes Terrorist Base in Syria
Israel Attacks Islamic Jihad Base Deep in Syria in Response to Suicide
Bombing
That Killed 19
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM Oct. 5 — Israeli warplanes bombed what the military called
an
Islamic Jihad training base in Syria on Sunday in retaliation for a
suicide
bombing at a Haifa restaurant. It was the first Israeli attack deep
inside
Syrian territory in more than two decades.
The attack one day after an Islamic Jihad bomber killed 19 people
threatened to
widen three years of Israeli-Palestinian violence into neighboring
countries
and marked a dramatic new strategy in Israel's efforts to stop terror
attacks.
Israel, which accuses Syria of harboring and funding Islamic Jihad,
said it
would strike at terrorists anywhere in the region. A statement from
the
military also accused Iran of funding and directing Islamic Jihad,
saying
Israel "will act with determination against all who harm its
citizens."
"Any country who harbors terrorism, who trains (terrorists), supports
and
encourages them will be responsible to answer for their actions,"
government
spokesman Avi Pazner said.
Syria's Foreign Ministry issued a terse statement saying it plans to
lodge an
"urgent complaint" against Israel with the United Nations. A Jihad
spokesman
denied the organization has any bases in Syria.
A senior commander from another radical Palestinian group the
Damascus-based
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command said the
camp was
one of their deserted bases, not Jihad's. The attack injured a
civilian guard,
the commander said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
There was no immediate U.S. comment on the strike. Secretary of State
Colin
Powell spoke to Israel's foreign minister after Saturday's suicide
bombing amid
worries at the time that Israel's response would target Palestinian
leader
Yasser Arafat.
Sunday's strike came a day before the 30th anniversary of the joint
Syrian-Egyptian attack known in Israel as the Yom Kippur War named
after the
holiest day in the Jewish calendar which begins at sundown Sunday. It
was
believed to be the first Israeli operation on Syrian soil since that
war,
though in 1985 Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon pursued Syrian
fighters
into Syrian airspace and shot them down.
In Sunday's strike, the Israeli air force hit several targets at the
Ein Saheb
camp about 14 miles northwest of Damascus, according to Israeli
security
officials. The base was used by several terrorist organizations,
including
Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the army said in a statement.
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