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To: Tom Smith who wrote (67679)	4/16/2001 9:16:31 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 116761

Israel attacks Syrian targets Monday, April 16, 2001 07:32 AM EDT BEIRUT, Lebanon, Apr 16, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Lebanese President Emile Lahoud warned Monday of a regional war as Israeli forces fired on Syrian targets in Lebanon in an escalation of hostilities, killing at least three Syrian soldiers and wounding several others. Israeli warplanes attacked a strategic radar, the first time Israel has struck Syrian targets in that area in five years. Lahoud, who consulted with Syrian President Bashar Assad in a telephone conversation early Monday, condemned Ariel Sharon, Israel's recently-elected hardline prime minister. Lahoud called the bombing "a dangerous development which again expresses the bloody trend adopted by Sharon since he came to power, whether inside the Palestinian territories or outside." Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri described the bombing as a "dangerous aggression" and warned against any Israeli attempt to increase tension in the region. Hariri urged against any Israeli decision aimed at "expanding the scope of tension in the region" and called on the international community for quick action to prevent tension from escalating to "dangerous dimensions with the ongoing developments in the occupied Palestinian territories." Israel said the attack was in response to recent Hezbollah raids that it insists were carried out "with the knowledge and under the auspices of Syria." Israel accused the Hezbollah of a "terrorist policy" operated under the patronage of the Syrian government. An Israeli soldier was killed Saturday in a cross-border attack by Hezbollah guerrillas. The warplanes struck the radar station in a mountainous deep region, along the main road connecting Beirut and Damascus, overlooking the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. A nearby Syrian anti-aircraft position was also hit. Syrian anti-aircraft gunners fired back at the raiding Israeli jets. The attacks came as nearly seven months of Israeli-Palestinian violence continued Sunday when a pipe bomb rocked an Israeli military checkpoint near the West Bank town of Qalqilya. No injuries or damage were reported. The blast followed two similar incidents Saturday in the nearby Israeli town of Kfar Sava. In response, Israel renewed its blockade Sunday of Qalqilya, only two days after lifting it to ease the economic struggles of Palestinian civilian workers In Gaza, more than 1,000 Palestinians attended the funeral Sunday of Mohamed Nassar. Israel and Palestinian officials say he died when a bomb he was making exploded. But the Islamic Hamas group insists Israeli forces shelled his house, and has vowed to seek revenge. Four others were wounded in the blast. Nassar reportedly worked as a bodyguard for Hamas founder and leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Israel Defense Forces spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ron Kitrey said "it seems" Nassar was killed in "a work accident," a term the IDF often invokes to describe Palestinians killed while preparing a bomb. "We're not involved in this matter, though I must say that personally I am not sorry about what happened to them," Kitrey said in an interview broadcast Sunday on Galei Tsahal, the Israeli army's radio station. Hamas members joined Nassar's funeral procession, shouting "Sharon must prepare the shrouds ... Hamas has accepted the challenge." They also called upon the Palestinian Authority to end security meetings with Israel. "The Hamas movement announced that it has 10 human bombs ready to blow themselves up ... there are hundreds of suicide bombers who are ready strike back at Israel," said a masked member of Hamas. The Islamic rebel group opposes the Middle East peace process and has carried out numerous suicide bombing attacks in Israel, killing dozens of people and wounding hundreds of others. Israel has retaliated by assassinating more than 20 militants in Gaza and the West Bank during more than seven months of ongoing clashes. (Joshua Brilliant in Tel Aviv and Saud Abu Ramadan in Gaza contributed to this report.) By DALAL SAOUD Copyright 2001 by United Press International. News provided by COMTEX comtexnews.com Got Gold? Got Guns? Got Guts?