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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22554)	9/16/2007 4:56:27 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220305

The last guy who suggested incondicional surrender ended up like that:

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22554)	9/16/2007 5:05:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220305

Barron's: What's the view from the OPEC meeting? The Saudis agree to increase output and crude goes to new highs That’s an anomaly!!!! The only reason can be loading before the attack • US boosting storage • Others follow

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22554)	9/16/2007 5:09:42 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220305

Israeli air assault in Syria managed to rouse the rest of the U.S. mainstream media from its slumbers. It happesna and no one knows about? Mummed media base IAF strike reports on world press By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent The CNN report last Tuesday on the circumstances of the Israeli air assault in Syria managed to rouse the rest of the U.S. mainstream media from its slumbers. During Israel's four-day weekend, a torrent of reports on the incident flooded the U.S., some of them contradictory, others complementary. In Israel, the double blackout is still in effect: Both the official and unofficial establishment is chary of releasing any reference or bit of information about what happened in the skies over northern Syria in the dawn hours of September 6. On top of this, there is the army censor, which blocks publication of any information on the affair. Under these stiff limitations, all the Israeli media can do is to attempt to piece together the puzzle for its consumers from their foreign counterparts, including CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Nevertheless, below are a few salient points: Advertisement The North Korean connection. All the latest U.S. reports find a direct connection to North Korea in the Israeli assault. The first to mention the possibility of Pyongyang selling nuclear technology to Damascus was John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, in a Wall Street Journal article the week before the incident. The Fox News Channel reported American suspicions that technology and equipment for enriching uranium was secretly being transferred from North Korea to Syria. The Washington Post later quoted international experts who claimed that Israel had targeted a suspicious delivery that had arrived from North Korea three days earlier. A State Department official, in the first official response, noted that Syria is on Washington's nuclear watch list, mentioned the presence of foreign technicians in the country and did not discount the possibility of North Korean involvement. To some extent this sounds like a rerun of the match between the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and Libya, which was exposed about four years ago: Two distant states, ostensibly without close ties, join forces in a shady deal that surprised the West. In this case, new life has apparently been breathed into the "Axis of Evil," precisely when the Bush administration believed that Pyongyang had returned to the nuclear-free straight and narrow. Silence is golden, for now. U.S. commentators have suggested that Israe's post-incident silence was intended to preclude international condemnation. After all, the world has already inferred what happened in northern Syria, and apart from the predictable denunciations from the immediate suspects (Russia, Iran and, apparently not by chance, North Korea), the attack was received with indifference if not approval. So why did Damascus report the violation of its air space in the face of Israeli silence? One possible explanation points to the force of the air defense systems that were activated on the night of the incident. The activity may have been so extraordinary that it was witnessed by many Syrians, and that the regime felt a need to provide an explanation. The tension will continue. Syria has apparently not responded to the Israeli action in any way, but the fact that 10 days have gone by has not erased all fears on the Israeli said. The relatively high state of readiness along the northern border is likely to continue through the end of the holidays, early next month. In an interview to Newsweek published Friday, Syria's U.S. Ambassador, Imad Moustapha, said that Israel would "pay a price" for the attack. Syria's claim to be the victim of Israeli aggression are a little hard to swallow, but one cannot blame Damascus for failing to believe Jerusalem's promises that Israel does not want a war. After all, similar declarations were made just before the incident in northern Syria.