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Syrian Guerillas "To Launch Resistance Within Months"
2006-12-11
Baath official says new terror organization ready to attack if Israel doesn't vacate strategic Golan Heights.
www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L- 3338590,00.html
If Israel does not vacate the Golan Heights within months, a guerilla organization allegedly formed in Syria will soon launch "resistance operations" against Israeli positions and Jewish communities in the Golan, an official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath party told WND in an exclusive interview.
"If in the coming months an agreement is not forged between Israel and Syria (for an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan), the Committees will begin attacks," said the official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld during an in-person interview with WND and with the G. Gordon Liddy national American radio show.
The official was referring to the Committees for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a Hizbullah -like guerrilla organization Baath party sources claim was formed in Syria to attack Israeli positions in the Golan.
"Attacks to be launched from Syrian side of border"
The Baath official told WND Syria learned from Hizbullah's military campaign against Israel that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory.
The Baath official told WND Syria's new Committees for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed this past June and that the group consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Committees in June.
The official said attacks by the Committees may include the infiltration of Jewish communities in the Golan, rocket attacks against Israeli positions or raids of Golan-based Israeli military installations. He said all attacks would be launched from the Syrian side of the border.
WND first reported in June on the alleged formation of the Front for the Liberation of the Golan. One month later, a man identified as the leader of the Front gave an interview to state-run Iranian television.
Reprinted with permission of WorldNetDaily
Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis
