Israel hits Syrian weapons convoy headed for Hezballah

Jerusalem Post:
Israeli forces attacked a convoy on the Syrian-Lebanese border on Wednesday, sources told Reuters, after Israelis warned their Lebanese enemy Hezbollah against using chaos in Syria to acquire anti-aircraft missiles or chemical weapons.

"The target was a truck loaded with weapons, heading from Syria to Lebanon," said one Western diplomat, adding that the consignment seemed unlikely to have included chemical weapons.

A source among rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad said an air strike around dawn (0430 GMT) blasted a convoy on a mountain track about 5 kilometers (3 miles) south of where the main Damascus-Beirut highway crosses the border. Its load probably included high-tech anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles.

"It attacked trucks carrying sophisticated weapons from the regime to Hezbollah," the source said, adding that it took place inside Syria, though the border is poorly defined in the area.

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The supposedly sophisticated Russian anti aircraft system including advanced radar does not appear to have been effective in identifying the Israeli planes used in the attack.  That is bad news for Iran which has been trying to copy the Russian system.  

In the past the Israelis have been able to spoof the Syrian air defense system in a form of a cyber attack and that could have happened this time too.

The Israelis clearly have good intelligence sources within Syria.

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