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Regional Threats Loom Large over Obamas Israel Trip
March 21, 2013
By P. David Hornik
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grim preface to Obamas visit was a statement earlier in the day by Yuval SteinitzIsraels finance minister in the previous government, now minister of intelligence and strategic affairsthat chemical weapons had been used in Syria. Steinitz did not claim to know whether it was the regime or rebel forces that had used them. AP reports that a senior [Israeli] defense official concurred [based] on intelligence reports.
Obama has called the use of chemical weapons in Syria a red line possibly prompting U.S. military action. Asked about the matter during the press conference, Obama said the U.S. would investigate whether the weapons were used and that the Assad regime must understand that they will be held accountable for the use of chemical weapons or their transfer to terrorists.
Lebanons Daily Star had reported two days earlier that Israeli planes had dropped flare bombs in southern Lebanona possible response or warning about Syrian weapons making their way into Hizballahs hands.
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Regional Threats Loom Large over Obama?s Israel Trip
March 21, 2013
By P. David Hornik
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grim preface to Obamas visit was a statement earlier in the day by Yuval SteinitzIsraels finance minister in the previous government, now minister of intelligence and strategic affairsthat chemical weapons had been used in Syria. Steinitz did not claim to know whether it was the regime or rebel forces that had used them. AP reports that a senior [Israeli] defense official concurred [based] on intelligence reports.
Obama has called the use of chemical weapons in Syria a red line possibly prompting U.S. military action. Asked about the matter during the press conference, Obama said the U.S. would investigate whether the weapons were used and that the Assad regime must understand that they will be held accountable for the use of chemical weapons or their transfer to terrorists.
Lebanons Daily Star had reported two days earlier that Israeli planes had dropped flare bombs in southern Lebanona possible response or warning about Syrian weapons making their way into Hizballahs hands.
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Regional Threats Loom Large over Obama?s Israel Trip