Military Intelligence Chief: Syrian army now at its highest state of alert

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Syria has placed its military at its highest state of alert in recent years, Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Chief Major General Amos Yadlin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday. Syrian forces do remain, however, on a defensive rather than offensive alert.

Yadlin emphasized that "neither Syria nor Israel are interested in a military clash but the situation is explosive and the events may potentially be incorrectly interpreted. This could entangle Syria up in a battle against us."

Hezbollah is interested in opening another front for Israel with Syria, Yadlin said. Hezbollah gunners are firing at the Golan Heights in an effort to embroil Syria in the fighting.

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The Military Intelligence chief rejected assertions that the IDF was surprised by Hezbollah's level of preparedness in south Lebanon.

Haaretz

[Dover]

1. "..but the situation is explosive and the events may potentially

be incorrectly interpreted".

Count on it.
That is exactly what Israel/U.S./Britain are counting on. Syria WILL be next.

[PurityOfEssence]

3. For supply lines, if nothing else

Waaaay back in March of '03, we were prepared and itching to go into Syria and crush them too. Had the mess in Baghdad not tripped up our dreams of conquest, we'd have done it.

Look at the logistics: all supplies come through the Straights of Hormuz and through the Persian
Gulf. The only other ways to supply our troops are through Turkey (who aren't the least bit reliable and itching to stomp the Kurds) through Jordan (ouch) and through Saudi Arabia (hahahahaha).

That only leaves Syria as a supply route.

What idiocy.

[Roland99]

2. Wonder if they have pretty color-coded alert levels, too?