Syrian paper says U.S. silence over Israeli overflight encourages Jewish state

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2E27576-79DD-43D3-BF2B-07C1E3515CC7.htm

An army spokesman told the official SANA news agency: "Enemy Israeli planes penetrated Syrian air space from the Mediterranean Sea heading towards the northeast, breaking the sound barrier."

He said: "Our air defences forced them to leave ... without causing human or material loss."

Syria and Israel remain technically at a state of war.

Peace talks broke down in 2000 over the fate of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6256829.html

two different stories One is that Syrians fired on the planes another the planes were escorted out

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392553869&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Syrian officials reported Thursday afternoon that at around 1 a.m., four or five IAF aircraft broke the sound barrier and dropped fuel tanks over deserted areas in northern Syria, along its border with Turkey. Witnesses said the incident occurred in the Abyad area.

A Syrian military spokesman said that Syrian air defenses then opened fire on the IAF aircraft.

"The Israeli enemy aircraft infiltrated the Arab Syrian territory through the northern border, coming from the Mediterranean, heading toward the eastern region, breaking the sound barrier," the spokesman said. "Air defense units confronted them and forced them to leave. We warn the Israeli enemy government against this flagrant aggressive act, and retain the right to respond in an appropriate way."
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http://www.israelinewsnow.com/

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8ojdpuWgfRNt2s76JbSiWFgJ_jQ

Syrian paper says U.S. silence over Israeli overflight encourages Jewish state

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian government newspaper accused the U.S. on Saturday of encouraging Israel's reported violation of Syrian airspace by remaining silent on the issue.

"This new Israeli hostile operation was carried out in co-ordination between Washington and Tel Aviv," the Tishrin newspaper said in a front-page editorial. U.S. silence can only be interpreted as an "overt and scandalous encouragement of Israel," it said.

Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who is based in Syria's capital, Damascus, made similar accusations Saturday, saying the U.S. and Israel were planning hostilities against Syria's neighbours, possibly referring to Iran.

"I believe that America and Israel are up to wars in the region," Mashaal said in an interview with the militant Hezbollah group's Al-Manar television. "Their supposed field has become known, and Syria is not far away from these targets."
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I think the Canadians got it right

it was a test of defenses and Russian planes

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1. I'm sitting here reading the News tonite and going Oh frack

Bush should have made a statement one way ot the other about the incident

No comment doesn't cut it