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The Alpha-Omega Report's

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Middle East News Spotlight

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For April 19, 2010

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Israel Threatens to Bomb Syria


Back to the Stone Age!


Warned by Secret Message

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Israel has delivered a secret warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad that it will respond to missile attacks from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese-based Islamist group, by launching immediate retaliation against Syria itself.

In a message, sent earlier this month, Israel made it clear that it now regards Hezbollah as a division of the Syrian army and that reprisals against Syria will be fast and devastating.

It follows the discovery by Israeli intelligence that Syria has recently supplied long-range ballistic missiles and advanced anti-aircraft systems to Hezbollah.

“We’ll return Syria to the Stone Age by crippling its power stations, ports, fuel storage and every bit of strategic infrastructure if Hezbollah dare to launch ballistic missiles against us,” said an Israeli minister, who who was speaking off-the-record, last wee

The warning, which was conveyed to Damascus by a third party, was sent to reinforce an earlier signal by Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister. “If a war breaks out the Assad dynasty will lose its power and will cease to reign in Syria,” he said earlier this year.

The Israeli decision to hold Syria directly responsible for Hezbollah’s actions is believed to be the result of intelligence assessments that Beirut has lost control of the Shi’ite organisation, which has become an increasingly powerful force in Lebanon.

Reports that Syria has supplied Hezbollah with Russian-made Scud ballistic missiles have alarmed Israeli ministers. The missiles have the potential to reach the entire country and could carry chemical warheads. New gas masks are being supplied to Israel’s entire population, with an intensive television advertising campaign underway to stress their importance. More details, LINK HERE.

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Iran will join the global nuclear club within one month, according to the deputy research chief of the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy of Iran (AEOI).

The state-run Fars news agency on Tuesday quoted Behzad Soltani, who also serves as the secretary-general of the AEOI’s Scientific Cooperation Council, as saying that “no country would ever think about attacking Iran” once the nuclear threshold has been crossed.

“We do not intend to use the peaceful nuclear energy merely for generating electricity and energy. Rather, our next step would be expanding use of this technology,” Soltani reportedly said. Radiation, he said, can ensure that “foodstuffs, proteins and vegetables are preserved for a longer time and with a higher quality.”

Soltani added that construction work on a large-scale nuclear power plant and a smaller research reactor in the Iranian city of Arak is nearing completion and is now at 70 percent. Full story, LINK HERE.

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America's top military commander has once again spoken out concerning military action against Iran but at the same time cautions that it must be as a last resort. This is the lastes in a volley of news stories this past week about military action in the Mideast. More details, LINK HERE.

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The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions that Mr. Gates had warned in a secret three-page memo that the United States did not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability.

The revelation of the leaked memo has caused quite a stir in Washington and is exposing Obama's foreign policy strateties as bankrupt. For more on this story, read the NY Times article - LINK HERE.

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