The (UK) Independent reports that ‘Israel Intercepted Order from Jihad Leader in Damascus for Tel Aviv Bombing’:
Israeli intelligence officers briefed ambassadors of the EU, the G8, and the UN Security Council on Friday’s Tel Aviv bombing. They read from a transcript of an intercepted telephone call in which Ramadan Shallah, Islamic Jihad’s Damascus-based leader, ordered a West Bank commander to go ahead with the bombing. Mark Regev, the foreign ministry spokesman, said: “In a regime like the Syrian regime, such an order could not come from Damascus unless the regime was acquiescing or collaborating.”
Maybe this contributed to President Bush tightening the screws on Damascus today.
