Syria ready to launch 'surprise' retaliation attack against Israel
Syria has threatened to retaliate for an Israeli air strike and its ally Iran said there will be repercussions for the Jewish state over the attack.
An Israeli post office worker
shows a child how to put on a gas mask at a distribution station in East
Jerusalem. Israel remains on high alert after Syria threatened retaliation for
an air strike on what Israel said was a weapons convoy heading for
Lebanon Photo:
GETTY
Syria declared it was ready to launch a "surprise" retaliation attack against
Israel yesterday as Bashar al-Assad's allies Russia and Iran both condemned air
strikes on a suspected weapons shipment near Damascus.
As tensions mounted following the Israeli attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the Obama administration warned Syria not to transfer weapons to Hizbollah,
thereby "further destabilising the region".
Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul-Karim Ali, said Damascus "has the
option and the capacity to surprise in retaliation" and that it was up to the
relevant authorities to prepare the time and place for action.
The foreign ministry in Damascus earlier lodged an official complaint with
the United Nations over the attack – part of a wave of incursions that was
launched to destroy an alleged weapons shipment to Hizbollah.
The bombing campaign on military targets around Damascus and the Lebanese
border came after weeks of growing concern within Israel that Syria's
disintegration poses a direct threat to its security.
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