One has to wonder which "US official" made this remark. It sounds of the same genre as Bill Clinton's remark in which he claimed, "I smoked marijuana, but didn't inhale".

as they fly hight over my house close to the border. Easy to tell between training and operational. The former is lower, East West,East, the other south north south.

Ironically, it is the Syrians themselves who are denying this"report". Could it be that Obama is trying to save face after copping out on his "game changer", without having any fingers of blame pointed at America?

"US official: Israel has conducted airstrike in Syria..." or "U.S. officials as saying Israel most likely conducted the strike... that Israel's warplanes did not enter Syrian airspace." Did or didn't? "in Syria" or "...did not enter Syrian airspace." ?????? Good old CNN - they can't seem to make up their minds, now can they?

It is indeed unfortunate that Israel once again takes the role of aggressor against a country whose territory it continues to illegally occupy. It would now be important for the United States to place restrictions on Israel regarding the use of military equipment supplied by it in any undeclared and aggressive situation.

Israel, as usual, is doing everything it can to keep weapons, especially WMD out of the hands of Hezbollah and other terror groups. They are saving not only the lives of Israelis but thousands of Syrians and other who would be affected if these weapons fell into the hands of Iranian-controlled terror puppets.

You're beyond ignorant; I'll leave it at that! No use in trying to explain facts to an idiot like you! You punk!!!

The US official claimed that Israel launched an airstrike against Syria WITOUT even entering their airspace. Rather baffling. And guess what? The Syrians are denying it. So where is your proof? And Israel illegally occupies Syrian territory? ILLEGALLY? That's got to be one the most pathetically false comments I have heard in a long time, even from an anti-Israel troll on these forums.

... tolerate the movement of either chemical weapons or weapons that are of strategic threat to it from the hands of the Syrian regime to lawless forces such as Hizballah, operating from Lebanon. If these are the weapons targeted by Israel, such an operation should not have come as a surprise to anyone, least of all to the Syrian regime or to Iran's front troops on Israel's border, i.e. Hizballah. Let us hope these aggressors have learnt a lesson and will refrain from acting in ways that can only escalate matters.

And you are against preventing chemical weapons from being used by terrorists

israel has said that she would not allow chemical weapons or their delivery systems to be transferred by the assad regime to any terror group, including hezbollah. israel has prevented such transfer under the noses of intelligence gathering ships off the coast of lebanon.

Israel is only doing its dirty job without bothering the US.

Why is their not Marian khoury In the world that understand geo politic

It's a beautiful day here in Israel. Why don't you close your computer, and go back to what you and your ancestors do best; throw some more American Indians off their property. There us still plenty there in Tucson, AZ.

Hi, International media report that IDF warplanes violated Lebanon's air space, and from there struck sites inside Syria. The were targeting syrian weapons storage sites, as they feared that arms were being transferred to Hezbollah. That's why the US is reporting that Israel did not enter Syrian Airspace, as technically they did not cross the boarder.

They just wake me up

So... they hide in Lebanese air space to strike in Syria.? Time for Russia to sell some air defense systems to Lebanon.

CNN seems to be similar to our local newspapers who print big, black headlines stating one thing but the articles below them state something else.

Not surprised, likely they do not want to take stick from Iran about not standing up to Israel. The attack should serve as a nice little reminder to Iran that air space does not always have to be entered to hit targets.

The only restrictions should be on your mouth-----IDIOT!!!

To: Number #14. I maintain #5 is not useful.

Lesson 1: Israel is in a state of war with Syria. It's been like that for the last 65 years. That's Syria's decision, Syria could change it in 1 day if they wanted. Lesson 2: Syria is one of the arab brethren whose lifelong dream and goal in life is the extermination of Israel. Israel is a country which stubbornly refuses to get exterminated, it's the only real refuge for Jews worldwide, and unfortunately for Syria, is stronger than Syria Lesson 3:Is there anyone that does not understand State-of-War? It's what Vietnamese had to live with against US forces in the 60s and 70s, it's what Iraqis had to live with against "coalition" forces during the Bush wars. Lesson 4: When you get attacked by your enemy, you defend yourself. When you know your enemy is about to make a move, you anticipate to it. When you play with fire, you may get burned. Final exam: Can you write why is it that Israel is more than justified when it strikes Syria? Would you condemn them? Can you see the restraint in Israel not having attacked and wiped Syria out once and for all? And finally, those eternal critics of Israel who are very quick to condemn Israel for anything and everything, we've yet to see one of them condemning Syria's oppressive regime for killing over 60,000 of its own during the last year and a half alone. Or maybe that's also Israel's fault.

one word. MORON!

DEATH TO ALL THE IRANIAN GOVERMENT AND REVOLUTIONARY GUARD, WE SHOULD KILL THEM BY THE 100,S. LONG LIVE ISRAEL.

16TH OF MAY WE FLY TO ISRAEL, CANT WAIT. LONG LIVE ISRAEL AND THAT ALL ISRAEL IS PROTECTED FOR ALWAYS.AMEN AMEN

...cooly expressing disdain. Air Intel UAV acquires target(s). Paints them. Data relayed to nearby mission aircraft.....** Launch.** BDA follows. In a relatively small arena like Israel-Syria- Lebanoin it is not too difficult to picture the activity. In other circumstances it may be necessary to be over-on target. Gives new meaning to the expression "Lets do launch".

Has been Perfectly Stated By Eli @ 8! You are a Punk.