CNN news 2013-05-08 加文本

cnn news 2013-05-08

On the day that President Obama once againsaid the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons would be a game changer after aweek of weighing U.S. military action or directly supporting opposition. A U.S.ally Israel, has apparently hit Syria from the air. Barbara Starr broke thestory, joins us now with what her sources are telling her. Barbara what wouldyou know?

Good evening, Anderson. Two U.S. officialsare telling me that now tonight U.S. and western intelligence agencies are reviewingclassified data indeed showing that Israel did conduct air strike into Syria. Thiskind of classified information usually radar communication intercepts that sortof thing. Here's what is so interesting. In the Thursday-Friday time frame, 16 Israeliwarplanes were registered by the Lebanese as flying in the Lebanese airspace.It is believed that Israelis conducted this from Lebanese air space that didn'tgo ahead and try penetrate into Syria. Officials say they don't think that thiswas directly against a chemical weapons facility, but much more likely againstsome type of weapons storage site, the very type of site that Israeli havevowed to hit. Anderson.

Ok, couples of things weapons storage site,does that mean chemical weapons storage site or conventional weapons or do wenot know?

I think it's exactly the right thing for usto look out here. What Israeli have said and I want to read our owned SaraSidner got a statement this evening from them is quote we will do whatever isnecessary to stop transfer weapons from Syria to terrorist organizations. Wehave done it in the past and we will do it if necessary in the future. The Israelisare going to strike apparently have again, they did one of several month ago,when they see the Syrian regime transfer weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon to tryand get their weapons out of Syria, move them into Lebanon, move them intopotentially into terrorist hands. The Israeli policy is that's when they willstrike and by all counts. That's exactly what they have done Anderson.

So, it's very possible this had as much todo with Hezbollah as it did with Syria?

Well, it is the Israeli worry that theseweapons that Syria is trying to get to as in their view as safe place and keepthem out of opposition hands. The Syrians believe getting them to Hezollah is asafe route. The Israeli say no way we are not going to tolerate that.

And again, just be clear, if they didn'tpenetrate Syrian air space with jets, you say the jets were over Lebanese airspace. So, we are talking about some sort of missiles fired from aircraft?

By all counts, that's what it would havetaken, some sort of weaponry, probably. If the Israelis have plenty ofprecision guided munitions they would have known exactly what they were hittingat and fired from their very capable fighter force, Anderson.

OK. Barbara, appreciate the breaking news.