REGIME CHANGE IS THE ONLY DETERRENT THEY CARE ABOUT:

Israel says deterrent ability recovered after Syria strike (Jean-Luc Renaudie Sun Sep 16, 2007, AFP)

Israel boasted on Sunday it has recovered its "deterrent capability" after an air strike in Syria triggered warnings of retaliation and intense media speculation over the aim of the operation.

"The new situation affects the entire region, including Iran and Syria," military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told parliament's powerful foreign affairs and defence committee, local media reported.

In keeping with an official Israeli wall of silence on the event, Yadlin told lawmakers he would not address the incident directly, but his statements "alluded to the Israeli raid," public radio reported.

He said Israel had now recovered its "deterrent capability" following the 2006 war against Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Anti-Syrian Lawmaker Killed in Lebanon (SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI and ZEINA KARAM, 9/19/07, AP)

An anti-Syrian lawmaker who had just returned to Lebanon two days ago from refuge abroad was killed Wednesday along with six other people by a bomb that rocked a Christian neighborhood of the capital, security officials said.

Antoine Ghanem is the eighth prominent anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated since 2005.

Oops, nevermind.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 19, 2007 2:51 PM