- MADRID (AFP) -- A Syrian
minister warned Israel in an interview published Sunday that a major ground
incursion into Lebanon would draw his country into the Middle East conflict.
- "If Israel makes a land entry into Lebanon, they
can get to within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of Damascus," Information
Minister Moshen Bilal told the Spanish newspaper ABC.
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- "What will we do? Stand by with our arms folded?
Absolutely not. Without any doubt Syria will intervene in the conflict."
Bilal said Syria wanted above all a ceasefire "as soon as possible"
combined with a prisoner exchange and indicated he was working to that
end with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, whom he met in
recent days in Madrid.
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- But he added: "I repeat, if Israel makes a land
invasion of Lebanon and gets near us, Syria will not stand by with arms
folded. It will enter the conflict." Israel has said it wants to push
Hezbollah militias 20 kilometres north of its border.
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- Bilal criticised the United States saying that it was
"unjustifiable" that "the superpower is not working for
a rapid ceasefire." He rejected claims by Washington that Damascus
has armed Hezbollah, saying that it offered "moral support" but
adding that "we do not finance any resistance." -AFP
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- Going after Syria (and then Iran) is accordance with
the 'A Clean Break'/war for Israel agenda which esteemed intelligence author/writer
James Bamford discusses on pages 261-269/321 of his 'A Pretext for War'
book (scroll down to pages 261-269 at the following URL):
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