Report: Assad linked to Katyusha rocket attack | Jerusalem Post

Report: Assad linked to Katyusha rocket attack | Jerusalem Post

If true (and there is no reason to doubt it), this proves once a gain the bad player that Syria is, and the almost laughable impunity with which it engages, through its myriad of proxies, in violence against its neighbors (principally, Lebanon and Iraq, and also Israel during last summer's war and now with this Katyusha strike yesterday). I thought that Olmert was foolish when he kept reassuring the Syrians last summer that he wouldn't attack them, even though he knew they were aiding Hezbullah in that war. Assad needs some attitude readjustment from the IDF or the US Air Force next time one of our soldiers in Iraq dies from a Syrian supported terrorist -- a slow moving UN trial of his involvement in the Hariri assassination won't do. Arab despots respect the violent use of power, and will not stop attacking US and Israeli interests until they see that they will have to pay a physical price for their proxy wars. It is time that Assad is on the receiving end of this power, for once. It will make him reconsider his actions next time.