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The Syrian Missile Crisis: Threat of War Very Real

By Sean Osborne

by Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs 18 April 2010: The threat of a regional war involving Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah and Israel is more ominous today that it has been at any time since the end of the brief summer war of 2006. The hair-trigger this time involves the reported Syrian delivery of WMD-capable SS-1C “Scud-B” ballistic missiles or, according to anonymous Israeli sources the SS-1E “Scud D,” to the Shi’a terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon. On Tuesday, 13 April 2010, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak went public in confirming the stunning news that the governments of Syria and Lebanon were in blatant and deliberate violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 which brought a tenuous end to the Israel-Hezbollah war of July-August 2006...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on April 18, 2010 (boomark / email).