Did Israel Launch An Attack To Destroy Advanced Russian Anti-Ship Missiles In Syria Last Week?

Syrian Rebels Hint Israel Behind Attack On Missile Cache -- Jerusalem Post

Defense minister Moshe Ya'alon denies Israeli ties to Latakia explosion, says Israel is sticking with established red lines.

Foreign forces destroyed advanced Russian anti-ship missiles in Syria last week, rebels said on Tuesday - a disclosure that appeared to point to an Israeli raid.

Qassem Saadeddine, spokesman for the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council, said a pre-dawn strike on Friday hit a Syrian navy barracks at Safira, near the port of Latakia. He said that the rebel forces' intelligence network had identified newly supplied Yakhont missiles being stored there.

"It was not the FSA that targeted this," Saadeddine told Reuters. "It is not an attack that was carried out by rebels. "This attack was either by air raid or long-range missiles fired from boats in the Mediterranean," he said.

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My Comment: These missiles would be high on any Israeli priority list to knock out. But did such an attack occur .... in the Allawite heartland of Syria .... for the moment no one is talking.