DEBKAfile Exclusive is Fulfilling Archive Update Number 101A
August 26, 2007
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Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 101A
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 101A
January 6, 2003
Beware Syria, Iraq’s New Pal!
The title of this update “Beware Syria, Iraq’s New Pal,” was taken from an article by Richard Z.
Chesnoff in the New York Daily News. I have believed for the past 50 years that Israel’s main problem, in the latter days, would come from a coalition led by Syria. Mr. Chesnoff’s article is being used, not because I think he agrees with this consensus, but because he gives the best information I have seen, in a compact form, about the current activities of Syria in their growing friendship with Iraq. He is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been reporting from around the world for more than 35 years.
He is a two-time winner of the Overseas Press Club Award. He was formerly executive editor of the Newsweek International and senior correspondent at US News and World Report. He has interviewed every major leader from David Ben-Gurion of Israel to Muammar Qadhafi of Libya. (Archive Update 101 continued after New York Times Article)
The following extracts were taken directly from Mr. Chesnoff’s article of January 1, 2003 in the New York Daily News.
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“According to Mideast diplomatic sources I’ve spoken with while doing research for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Syria has brushed aside historic Baathist party rivalries with Iraq and instituted a flow of intelligence information to its counterparts in Baghdad.”
“Moreover, despite Syria’s current rotating membership on the Security Council, it has steadily violated the Council’s embargo on Iraq by pumping and globally marketing and average of 150,000 barrels of Iraqi oil per day.”
“Although Assad’s government claims it is putting Iraq’s share of all the profits on freeze, senior intelligence sources have evidence that all these contraband funds have been made available to Iraq at a staggering rate of about one billion a year. The money has been used to obtain weapons and desperately needed military parts through Syrian middlemen, which is another violation of the UN embargo.”
“The Syrians have done nothing to change their long standing policy of state support for terrorist organizations. Ten of the worst Palestinian extremist groups remain headquartered in Damascus, and are regularly given Syrian backing and funds. Additionally, Syria actively supports the terrorist group Hizbollah based in southern Lebanon, and Damascus has played host to a number of members of Osama Bin Laden’s family, having its own links to Al Qaeda.”
“U.S. intelligence officials recently confirmed information I published in March indicating that Al Qaeda operatives who had fled into Iran from Afghanistan had been transported from Tehran to Damascus and then transferred overnight to Lebanon, where little takes place without the knowledge and permission of Syria. Lebanon subsequently announced it had expelled many of the Al Qaeda fugitives, but intelligence sources in Beirut believe that groups of Bin Laden’s senior underlings are presently hiding in southern Lebanon.”
End of extracts taken from the article by Richard Z. Chesnoff in the New York Daily News.
Continue Archive Update 101A, Issued January 6, 2003
What follows does not reflect the opinion or viewpoint of the New York Daily News or Mr. Chesnoff.
In hundreds of Updates, over the past two years, I have warned that the real danger that Israel faces is not from Europe, Russia, or China, nor is it
from the west, the south, or the east. The real danger will come out of the north from Syria, which formed the major landmass of the Assyrian Empire when Isaiah and Micah wrote their prophecies.
(See Prophecy Updates 66, 67, and 68 in our Archives.)
Micah 5:5-7 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from t
he Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. [7] And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
End of Archive Update Number 101A, January 6, 2003A
Begin DEBKAfile Exclusive, August 25, 2007
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Assad is willing to talk to Olmert without involving Washington – but not to abandon absolute commitment to Tehran
August 25, 2007, 2:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
This double message was brought to Jerusalem last week by Edward P. Djerejian from unpublicized meetings he held in Damascus with president Bashar Assad and Syrian military and intelligence chiefs.
This former US ambassador to Israel and Syria reported that Assad is willing to drop his prior conditions for talks with Israel regarding parallel dialogue with Washington
and US participation in the peace process. But the Syrian ruler is also utterly committed to the diplomatic and military policies of his senior partner, Tehran.
Damping down any optimism in Jerusalem, Djerejian, a co-author of the Baker Report on Iraq, warned Assad will not go back on his commitment to Tehran, even if a diplomatic breakthrough leads to improved relations with Washington and talks with Jerusalem.
The former diplomat and old friend of the Assad dynasty put it this way: President Hafez Assad, Bashar’s father, set the tone of the Syrian-Iranian alliance. Today, Damascus dances to the music written in Tehran.
The Syrian president sent a second message to Washington and Jerusalem via Djerejian: Damascus and the Lebanese Hizballah are not inseparable.
They coordinate political and military policies, but Assad is not bound by Hassan Nasrallah’s political and military decisions and is free to follow his own path.
In contrast, DEBKAfile’s sources stress, the Olmert government’s peace expectations of Syria must factor in Assad’s staunch dedication to Iran’s lead on Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. His call for peace talks with Israel is well attuned to Tehran’s objective of engaging Washington in direct dialogue on its nuclear program and Iraq, provided that diplomacy does not shift the fundamental positions of either party.
Syrian rulers have not aped Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for Israel’s annihilation. But nei ther have
they take exception to this sentiment, whether publicly or in closed conversations with the US veteran diplomat this month. Djerjian was impressed by the pride Assad and his aides displayed in the robustness of their relationship with Tehran. They were completely confident they had opted for the winning side in the Middle East instead of the United States and Israel who they regard as the losing camp.
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