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The Debka File's intelligence sources say the tough new rules on the distribution of photographic material on Israel also reflect the expansion of US installations under construction in the Jewish state and their strategic value. The most important facility is the $125 million base at Nashshonim (Nahsholim?) in central Israel, slated to be the US military’s biggest training facility in the Middle East and main forward base for US Marines and infantry units deployed in Israel or on their way to other regional locations.

12/21/2003

Which fight comes first, Syria, Iran or Yemen?

(As shown in picture, the burrowing operation to unearth hidden Iraqi Mig fighters, was easy compared with digging up large tracts of the Syrian Desert.)

1. Bring crushing leverage to bear on the Syrian president and force him to order his engineering corps to dig up the hiding places marked on his charts and quietly hand over the wanted weapons to the Americans. For the present, Assad is tossing off any such demands with complete nonchalance.

2. To let American military and engineering units loose on the targeted miles and burrow until the weapons are found.

That course could bring American and Syrian armies into a major collision, a development that would rock the Middle East no less than the American invasion of Iraq.

But there is a third option.

It is that Saddam hand over to his American interrogators the details of the arrangements he worked out with the Syrian president for the transfer of the weapons of mass destruction to their present hiding places. He would have to name the Iraqi and Syrian officials who handled the operation. With this information in hand, President Bush could turn the heat on Assad and demand his cooperation in locating the buried items. If Assad continued to shrug the demands aside, then the evidence against the Syrian president would be laid before the UN Security Council and an international operation mounted to bring the prohibited weapons to light.

(Editor's note: I have a question. Where was satellite surveillance when all this was taking place? I am willing to believe things are buried in many places but I can't believe we weren't watching it happen. MN)