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To: michael97123 who wrote (243866)	10/3/2007 2:53:42 PM
From: SARMAN	Respond to of 281500

Israel - simply out of control, hiding under United States skirts, attacking other countries for no reason...the real "terrorist" nation? Israel breaks silence on raid But the target in Syria still unclear October 3, 2007 BY DION NISSENBAUM MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS JERUSALEM -- Nearly a month after a mysterious Israeli military air strike in Syria, the Israeli government lifted its official veil of secrecy Tuesday. It didn't provide much new information about what took place Sept. 6. Its government censor cleared the way for journalists to report that the incident had taken place, but rules still ban reporting what the target was, what troops were involved or why the strike was ordered. Advertisement Israel lifted its ban on reporting the attack took place after Syrian President Bashar Assad told the British Broadcasting Corp. that Israeli jets had hit an "unused military building." But Israeli officials wouldn't say anything about the attack, and almost no one who would be expected to know is talking. The dearth of information has allowed fertile speculation: The strike was a dry run for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. The target was an Iranian missile cache bound for Hizballah Islamic fighters in Lebanon. The attack hit a fledgling Syrian-North Korean nuclear weapons program. Or it was meant to thwart efforts to provide Hizballah with a so-called dirty bomb to use against Israel. The problem of separating fact from fiction is compounded by the fact that all sides routinely leak distorted, exaggerated or bogus information to conceal the truth and to wage psychological warfare. The Washington Post, meanwhile, reported that Israel had told the United States that Syria was working with North Korea on a nuclear weapons program. The Post said the strike came three days after a ship from North Korea arrived in Syria. The ship was said to be carrying cement, but unnamed officials told the Post that it was really military materiel sent to the site hit by the Israeli raid. U.S. intelligence officials are skeptical of those claims. That skepticism has given rise to an even more convoluted theory, which in the Mideast has the advantage of suggesting that neither side is telling the truth: The Israelis hit a Syrian chemical-weapons facility, then leaked word that the target was nuclear in an attempt to convince Iran that its nuclear facilities are next.