People demonstrate after Friday prayers in Latakia, Syria. President Bashar al-Assad says the country is 'on course to comprehensive reform'. Photograph: ReutersDocument: Syria Unlikely To Survive A War -- UPI
JERUSALEM, April 8 (UPI) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would be unlikely to survive a war with Israel, a former senior Israeli military intelligence officer said.
Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israeli military intelligence, expressed the assessment in 2007 at meetings with U.S. intelligence officials, documents released by WikiLeaks indicate.
The documents quoting Yadlin were among numerous files on the Middle East conflict, Israeli security considerations and assessments of Arab neighbors published by the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth Friday.
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My Comment: The slow drumbeat of documents from Wikileaks just keeps on giving. What I find interesting about this document release are the Israeli files outlining their concerns on the stability of Middle East governments. These files were done 2-3 years ago .... hmmm .... kinda prophetic when you think about what is happening today in the Middle East.
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