Roitov.com: Assad's Best Friend Attacks Syria!!

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: It is whatever you can still betray. John le Carre, The Looking Glass War. A thick fog covered the affair from its beginning. Considering its circumstances, this was unlikely to continue. After all, it had been captured on video by several news agencies. The pictures were the same in all the networks. However, the descriptions varied wildly. In the beginning, Israeli media reported that in the afternoon of January 29, 2013, four F16 fighters had entered Lebanon, and left it towards the Mediterranean Sea after five hours. This was not a formal acknowledgment by the IDF, since the main source quoted was the Lebanese army website. Yet, as it often happens, the Hebrew article warned Syria of transferring weapons to the Hezbollah or of losing control on their rockets. Moreover, Israel announced the deployment of two Iron Dome batteries in its north, one of them next to the city of Haifa. Shortly afterwards, confused reports were broadcast. Venezuela's "teleSUR" reported it at first as two separate events. After a while it dropped its initial report. The first event described an Israeli attack on the Lebanon Syria border, the second claimed that a research center of the Syrian army, located near Damascus had been heavily damaged by Israel. Regardless of the report, the images were the same. They showed F16 fighters from below, firing flares. Was this disinformation? Israeli propaganda? Syrian propaganda? It was impossible to tell. Iron Dome in Haifa: Absolute Friends. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. China, Russia, Iran and Syria formally denounced and condemned the attack, yet, they didn't provide details. Israel was silent. The Venezuelan network denounced the UN Secretary General for not condemning the attack on Syrian sovereignty. At this stage, they stopped providing specific details. Apparently, even they felt that something was wrong with the report. I kept waiting. The issue was unlikely to be kept secret for much longer. Following Hebrew media protocols, the issue was clarified on Saturday, February 2, by citing foreign media. A Syrian army convoy transferring Russian SA17 rockets to Lebanon, was hit, while at the Jamraya Research Center of the Syrian Army, which is located between Damascus and Lebanon, eight kilometers from the border. Both stories were true, and related to the same event, though they were both partial reports. After this was revealed, the event became of little interest due to the delay. Maybe this was the aim of the early informational mayhem.