US officials early Saturday, July 13 named Israel as responsible for the
July 5 air strikes against the big arms depot at a Syrian naval base in
the Alawite port city of Latakia. Dispelling conflicting reports, three
US officials asserted that Israel had conducted the air strikes for
demolishing the advanced Russian-made Yakhont anti-ship missiles stored
there.debkafile’s
military sources report that three strategic arsenals were targeted: One
consisted of weapons mostly delivered by Russian air freights in the
last two months for the Syrian-Hizballah offensive to recapture Aleppo. A
second contained the supersonic Yakhont anti-ship missiles (NATO
codenamed SS-N-26) plus their radar systems; and the third, the Syrian
army’s strategic reserve of missiles and ammunition, stored there for an
emergency, such a possible forced Syrian army retreat to the Alawite
region - or even Lebanon.It is important to note that, although Moscow was perfectly aware
that the advanced Russian weapons supplied to Syria were put in the
hands of the Lebanese Hizballah, the consignments were not only not
suspended but expanded. Moscow is therefore directly arming HIzballah
with advanced weapons.
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