The Deadly Northern High Tech Offensive Zone of Syria!
September 13, 2007
All Nations have War Contingency Plans. Syria long ago, knowing its eternal worst enemy was Israel, chose the northern sections of its vast territory as its primary War Contingency Evacuation Area.
Naturally, it chose to place its major offensive Scud launch sites in that area, to preclude a quick overrunning attack capture of them.
It also chose to go underground in some northern areas to set up weapons production of a wide variety of deadly armaments, including WMD’s. It is also the major storage area of in-country munitions, many coming by way of the Damascus Airport from Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Many of them end up in Hizbullah’s hands via truck shipments to Lebanon.
Please read Archive Prophecy Update Number 154B before reading the excerpts from the articles which follow it. It should help you to grasp why there is so much mass confusion as to the successful completion of Israel’s recent mysterious violation of northern Syrian air space.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 154B
January 14, 2004
Whatever Happened to the WMD in Iraq?
This has been an intriguing question that has produced a lot of political hay for those who say the Iraqi WMD did not exist, but were merely an excuse to invade Iraq. And, to be perfectly honest, no one knows for sure what happened to the WMD.
There was an event, which I did report in Special Prophecy Update Number 81A, that I really did not understand involving Iraq and Syria, and it did indeed seem strange at the time, considering past relationships between the two countries. The following three paragraph quote is taken from the August 17, 2002 Update 81A, titled “More Strategic Dialog Among the 10 Toes,” which was written some seven months before Iraq was invaded by coalition forces.
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“Iraq has recently been conducting large-scale military maneuvers on the Syrian border, reportedly by prior agreement with its new President, Bashar Assad. Bashar then made a trip to Iran to hold talks with its President, Mohammad Khatami. The talks were described as a strategic dialog.
The healing process is taking time because of all the past conflicts that have occurred between these nations, but it is progressing because of a common healing balm – Their natural hatred for Israel, which far exceeds their dislike for each other. The great breaches between them occurred in the last decade. Iraq and Iran fought a very bitter war that took the lives of millions.
The relations between Iraq and Syria, which are ruled by two rival wings of the Baath party, were severed in the eighties, but have been on the mend since 1997, fueled mainly by trade links.
We have covered these trade links in detail in previous updates, as well as the sneaky way that Syria is militarily assisting Iraq and receiving oil benefits in return. This is one of the reasons that Bashar, last month, sent a message to Saddam on the thirty-fourth anniversary of his rival Baath party rising to power in Baghdad. In the message he underlined his desire to boost the brotherly ties between Iraq and Syria.
An independent Jordanian newspaper, Al Hilal, reported that last week Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein on the border between
the two countries. The article said Assad took along his brother, Maher, and the head of the Syrian Intelligence Service with him to the meeting.
During the meeting the report stated that Saddam presented Assad with an ancient rifle taken from the Iraqi museum.”
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This meeting between two presidents of two rival Baath parties of two countries, who did not like or trust each other, seemed strange to me at the time. Recent reports from a senior Syrian journalist, Nizar Najoef, who has recently defected to Western Europe, suggest that this meeting may have been for more than just a get together for a friendly chat. It may have been to coordinate the transfer of Iraq’s WMD across the border into Syria in the event Iraq was overrun by foreign forces, and the Iraqi maneuvers along the border on the Iraqi side may have involved the scurrying movement of special units of Saddam’s Republican Guard, who could have been in the process of concealing them along the border for a quick transfer to the Syrians, if necessary.
I linked the events of Update 81A in 2002 with a report from a Dutch newspaper article of January 5, 2004. It carried a letter from Nizar Nijoef in which he identified three Syrian sites where Iraq’s WMD are stored. Nijoef says he knows w
here they are hidden. Does he know? I honestly don’t know, and I cannot vouch for the validity of his claim, but it does explain the strange meeting of Assad and Hussein in 2002.
The Newspaper was “Die Telegraff,” and Nijoef claims the storage places to be as follows:
1. Sjinsjar on the Lebanese border with Syria.
2. The villege of Tal Snan.
3. In a vast complex of tunnels that are part of a great underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles. He claims that Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels.
This underground complex is said to be beneath the town of al- Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria.
Is his report the truth? I don’t know! But if it is, then you may rest assured the U.S. and Israeli Intelligences will find out, or already know one way or the other. And if its true, and I were Bashar Assad, I would be making every effort to make peace with Israel and to get on the “good side” of the United States before they took action to eliminate the WMD. Oddly enough, this is precisely what Assad has been doing over the last two months.
It is somewhat ironic that the aforementioned Syrian city of Hama is ancient Hamath, which will soon mark the northern extent of the vast land grant promised to Israel by God through Abraham and Isaac. The vast grant will be occupied by Israel for a thousand during the reign of its Messiah.
Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward,
and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Last year I issued a Prophecy Update titled “Kurds in the Whey.” In it I discussed the role of the Kurds in the northern neck of Iraq. It is quite obvious that the shortest distance between Iran and Syria is across this northern neck. Do not be surprised if they discover some WMD have, and possibly still are, being moved across this land of the Kurds, or put in remote places in Iraq for future use.
Believe it or not, Syria, Iran, and North Korea really are an axis of terror, and Osama ben Laden is among them.
In last year’s Prophecy Updates, I indicated I would continue to watch both the Syrians and the Israelis regarding the reality of negotiations between them that could lead to a false peace settlement between them. So far it has a been a lot of rhetoric between them to create the effect of which is the “good guy” who really wants peace, and who is the “bad” guy who doesn’t. The situation is worth watching, but until more than rhetoric to gain press favor and headlines stops, I simply intend to just keep on listening and watching for something real.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Report: N. Korea, Syria may be at work on nuclear facility
JPost.com Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 13, 2007
Adding another piece to the puzzle surrounding Israel’s alleged air raid on a Syrian target last week, the Washington Post reported Thursday that North Korea may be cooperating with the Syrians on some sort of nuclear facility in their country.
The Washington Post report is based on new intelligence the United States has gathered over the past six months, the bulk allegedly from Israel, which includes dramatic satellite imagery that has led some US officials to believe the facility could be used to produce material for nuclear weapons.
The new information, particularly images received in the past 30 days, has been restricted to just a few senior officials under the instructions of national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, leaving many in the intelligence community unaware of it or uncertain of its significance, sources told the Washington Post on condition of anonymity.
A White House spokesman and the Israeli Embassy declined to comment Wednesday after several days of inquiries. A Syrian Embassy spokesman told the Washington Post he could not immediately provide a statement. The New York Times first reported on the intelligence linking North Korea and Syria.
Since the alleged Israeli attack in Syria occured, the Israeli government has refused to divulge any details, but a former Israeli official said he had been told that it was an attack against a facility capable of making unconventional weapons.
Others have speculated that Israel was testing Syria’s air defenses in preparation for a raid on Iran or that Israel was targeting weapons destined for Hizbullah in Lebanon.
Begin Boston Globe Article
Israeli planes targeted arms in Syria going to Hezbollah, US says
By Sam F. Ghattas, Associated Press | September 13, 2007
DAMASCUS, Syria – Israeli warplanes targeted weapons destined for Hezbollah guerrillas in a strike last week in northeastern Syria, a US government official said yesterday. Syria’s envoy to the United Nations called the claim “nonsense.”
The American official said the target of the Sept. 6 attack was a site where Israel believed Syria stored weapons being sent from Iran to the militant Islamic group in Lebanon. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information involved intelligence gathering and because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Officials in Washington had declined for several days to say if they were aware of the air strike, then on Tuesday said they had intelligence indicating it occurred.
Israel has declined to comment on the air operation, which the Syrians reported last week.
Syria said only that warplanes entered its airspace, came under fire from anti-aircraft defenses, and dropped munitions and fuel tanks to lighten their loads while they fled.
Asked about the US official’s statement that a Hezbollah weapons shipment was the target, Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari scoffed.
“This is, as we say in French, ‘blah blah,’ ” Ja’afari told reporters at UN headquarters in New York.
“This is nonsense. This is an unfounded statement.”
But government officials and analysts in Syria would not discuss what exactly happened beyond the official statements.
Syria has called the incursion a “hostile act” and threatened unspecified retaliation, although its only response so far has been to complain to the United Nations. Israeli forces went on high alert in the occupied Golan Heights.
North Korea this week condemned the Israeli incursion, calling it a “dangerous provocation.”
That prompted speculation the target inside Syria involved North Korean materials or missiles. North Korea and Syria have a longstanding alliance, and Israeli experts say North Korea and Iran have been major suppliers of Syria’s missile stock.
Begin Article from The Australian
Israeli jets obliterate missile base
September 13, 2007
ISRAELI planes last week bombed and destroyed a northern Syrian missile base that was financed by Iran, an Arab Israeli newspaper reported.
Citing anonymous Israeli sources, the Assennara newspaper said Israeli jets “bombed in northern Syria a Syrian-Iranian missile base financed by Iran … It appears that the base was completely destroyed”.
Syria, on Tuesday, lodged a formal complaint with the UN over the “flagrant violation” of its airspace last Thursday, during which it said its air defences opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying over the northeast of the country.
Israeli officials have refused to comment on the report, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “instructed ministers not to talk about the incident related to Syria at all”, a senior Israeli government official said.
A US defence official said on Tuesday that Israel had launched an air strike well inside Syria, apparently to send Damascus a message not to rearm Shia Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
The official did not know the target of the strike: “The Israelis are trying to tell the Syrians: ‘Don’t support a resurgence of Hezbollah in Lebanon’.”
CNN said the strike, which could also have involved ground forces, was believed to have targeted weapons either coming into Syria or moving through Syria from Iran to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
AFP
Israel hit Syrian base financed by Iran: report
Khaleej Times
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Syria formally complains to UN over Israeli air violation
Middle East Online
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Israel keeps up blackout
News24
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Israel keeps up blackout on mystery Syria air strike
Yahoo Daily News
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Israel keeping silent on reported Syria strike
Khaleej Times
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Syrians shoot at Israeli planes
The Australian
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Israeli air strike inside Syria
The Australian
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Syria Says It Fired on Israeli Aircraft
Examiner
DAMASCUS, Syria (, ) – Syrian air defenses opened fire on Israeli aircraft after they violated Syrian airspace, Syrian officials said Thursday, sharply elevating cross-border…
Syria says Israeli jets bomb territory
The Star
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria accused Israel of bombing its territory on Thursday and warned it could respond, but Israel Radio carried a denial there had been…
Syria accuses Israeli jets of bombing its territory
Mail Guardian South Africa
Syria accused Israel on Thursday of bombing its territory and warned it could respond, but Israel Radio carried a denial there had been an air strike. The official Syrian news…
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