Peres Denies Reports Israel Will Attack Syria
Prime Minister Shimon Peres dismissed reports Friday that Israel was planning a military strike against Syria to retaliate for suspected Syrian involvement in an attempted bombing of an Israeli airliner in London April 17.
“I can say with clarity Israel does not have any intention to attack Syria,” Peres told Israel radio.
CBS News said Thursday that Israel was preparing a military strike against Syria. CBS said Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin has privately told several U.S. officials that Israel will retaliate.
Al Ittihad, a semiofficial newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, quoted a Lebanese political leader as saying that Israel was planning to attack Syrian forces within a week.
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