'Janes': US gearing for showdown with Syria

This was published in January, 2004.

Perhaps, because they had already been caught in a truckload of lies by then, they had to slow down.

Israel has now set the stage for what the NeoCons have waited for for over a quarter century, WWIII.

'Janes': US gearing for showdown with Syria:

LONDON - US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is considering provoking a military confrontation with Syria by attacking Hizbullah bases near the Syrian border in Lebanon, according to the authoritative London-based Jane's Intelligence Digest.

It noted that the deployment of US special forces in the Bekaa Valley, where most of Syria's occupation forces in Lebanon are based, would be highly inflammatory and would 'almost certainly involve a confrontation with Syrian troops.'

'Targeting Syria via Lebanon, the only concrete political influence Damascus has to show following decades of radical diplomacy could prove to be a means to that end.'