Israeli strike on Syria: Commando team lased targets for guided bombs?, page 1

So far there’s nothing confirmed about this particular Israeli mess, but this is a bit interesting;

On 16 September 2007 the Sunday Times reported that an IAF commando team arrived on the ground several days before the attack to direct laser beams at the target for the jets.

Does anybody know where that one came from?

Back in 2003 Israelis bombed an empty Palestinian training camp, did they use ground troops to lase their targets as well?

Here’s a good article from globalsec with some maps and a time line;

www.globalsecurity.org...

Syria said its air defences reportedly opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying over the northeast of the country in the early hours of Thursday 06 September 2007. Very few facts are known about the alleged incident. Local residents were reported to have claimed to have heard the sound of five or more planes above the Tal al-Abiad area on Syria's border with Turkey, around 160 km (100 miles) north of the Syrian city of Rakka. One Syrian official was quoted by Reuters on 07 September 2007 as saying: "They dropped bombs on an empty area while our air defenses were firing heavily at them."
The Syrian official news agency SANA stated that Israeli aircraft had "infiltrated Syrian airspace through the northern border coming from the direction of the Mediterranean and headed towards northeastern territory, breaking the sound barrier. ... The Syrian Arab Republic warns the government of the Israeli enemy and reserves the right to respond according to what it sees fit..." Syria warned that it was weighing its response to the Israeli "aggression". Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal told Al-Jazeera television that his country was "giving serious consideration to its response... to this aggression ... This shows that Israel cannot give up aggression and treachery".
On 08 September 2007 Turkey asked Israel for clarification after finding two fuel tanks on its territory near the Syrian border allegedly belonging to Israeli warplanes. The jettisoned fuel tanks were discovered late on Thursday 06 September 2007 in the Turkish provinces of Hatay and Gaziantep, near the Syrian border. This came a few hours after Damascus had accused Israel of bombing its territory.

All we know is what some undisclosed Syrian/Turkey officials said and a single account from the locals.

We have 5+ jets on Syria’s/Turkey border that went supersonic, unconfirmed reports of munitions dropped on the desert, unconfirmed SAM fire, fuel tanks in Turkey, a supposed commando team, and that’s about it.

So far there’s simply nothing to go on but speculation, so I expect this one to drown in media babble in a few weeks.

What do you guys think? Is this thing just going to go away, or will we hear some actually official statements?