"Box on the Euphrates"?

the mystery of the "Syrian box" continues

as you know, Bob,
the Israelis bombed a big box in eastern Syria a few weeks ago (or, did they? - there's a bizarro story in the j-post source to al-Jazeera that the US did the bombing - don't believe it - but there may be more to the story, like maybe the Israeli planes had US special forces guidance or elint support, or they came from the east, staging out of Iraqi bases - since apparently Syrian AA cover is anisotropic... - that would explain the Syrian strange rant about Israeli aircraft circling over the Med west of Syria - they could have been a distraction rather than backup for the raid force - since we are speculating wildly)
So there.

the Syrians variously denied anything happened, derided the Israelis for bombing empty desert, and angrily hinted they'd "get the Israelis for this, some day"

Arms Control Wonk has the details with some fun public sourced pictures and probably better analysis than the White House was getting...

see also Syria tidbits the series of posts rocks

h/t Nuclear Mangos which also has other interesting links (but still no spell checker...)

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