DEBKAFile 01/19/03:
Assad is a very worried man. In a typical reflex action, he sent his Hizballah proxy to shoot up an Israeli military tractor, killing one Israeli soldier and injuring another…
Omri 01/21/03:
DebkaFILE is arguing that Assad ordered Hezbullah to fire on Israel… That sounds iffy to me – he knows a Hezbullah attack risks another Israeli attack on Syrian installations… I don’t think he’d be willing to risk all that … More likely, when that Israeli bulldozer inched across the border to clear out the mine, random lower-level Hezbullah guerillas saw their chance for glory and killed a Jew.
Ha’aretz 01/22/03:
The Israel Defense Forces believes the anti-tank missile fired this week on the northern border, resulting in the death of a soldier, was not a preplanned Hezbollah attack coordinated with Syria.
A high-ranking IDF General Staff source Wednesday night told Haaretz Hezbollah activists in the area apparently fired the missile when they noticed the IDF bulldozer passing through the perimeter fence to clear explosive charges placed along the border.
Someone is keeping track of all of these, right?
