| Submit your comments on this article |
| East/Subsaharan Africa |
| Israel Plans Cross-Border Strikes |
| 2002-11-30 |
| Israel is planning cross-border military strikes as well as a long hunt by stealth once its Mossad intelligence agency delivers its verdict on who was responsible for Thursdays attacks. Intelligence sources say the most likely targets in retaliation for the attacks, which cost 16 lives but came close to killing hundreds, are in Lebanon and possibly Somalia and Yemen. But the Israeli government is waiting for confirmation from Mossad agents in Kenya that Al-Qaeda was responsible for the bombing and missile attack, and to find out whether Hezbullah or any other group was also involved. I imagine these will be pretty tightly targeted. Hitting targets in Yemen will raise the Arab hackles — I wonder if that'll be proxied to us? I doubt they'll find anything on hard links between Hezbollah and al-Qaeda — though it's entirely likely they'll find links to Usbat al-Ansar, or similar organizations, probably in Ain el-Hilweh... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |