Tuesday, July 18, 2006

All quiet on the Syrian front...

....so far, but Syria has had to shut the airport in Damascus, for security reasons, leaving Syrians to fear for their country and their lives.

BBC NEWS Middle East All quiet on the Syrian front:

But the same information was greeted with more concern by Syrians on the ground, some of whom took it to mean that Israeli air attacks might be imminent, targeting their infrastructure in the same way that Lebanon's has been hit in the last week.

Israel has accused Syria of supplying parts of missiles fired by Lebanese militants from Hezbollah, which have reached deeper and deeper into northern Israeli in recent days.

'You don't think they're going to hit Syria do you?,' asked one night-owl we met on the desert highway.

'The Israelis wouldn't be stupid enough, would they? If they hit Syria, that's World War III,' he added.

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