Are we trying to goad Syria into attacking us first?

[Frackal]

???

http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?num=53


.S. FORCES BLOW UP IRAQI PIPELINE TO SYRIA
ABU DHABI [MENL - 2 April] -- U.S. special operations forces are said to have blown up
an Iraqi pipeline that delivered more than 200,000 barrels of oil a day to
Syria.

The Kuwaiti Al Rai Al Aam daily reported on Wednesday that U.S. forces
sabotaged the Iraqi oil pipeline to Syria last week in an operation in
northwestern Iraq. The newspaper quoted U.S. sources as saying the forces
also blew up a railroad link between Iraq and Syria.

Until the start of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, Syria obtained 250,000
barrels of oil per day through two pipelines that stemmed from the northern
Iraqi city of Kirkuk. One pipeline reached the Syrian port of Banyas for
export. The other provided oil directly to the Syrian national energy grid.

The U.S. sources said the destruction of the main pipeline came amid a
warning by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for a halt to Syrian military
supplies to the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The newspaper
reported that on Monday the pumping station on the Iraqi side of the
pipeline had broken down.

 

[DcupSheepNipples]

I can not either confirm or deny! Sorry Frackal!

 

[supersizeme]

If that is in fact true, and we did blow up that pipeline ourselves, I don't think the motivation there is to provoke them to come launch an attack against us. I think it's just us giving them the big fat finger for supplying Iraq with military gear. I can't see the U.S. being interested in fighting anyone other than Iraq right now.

 

[Frackal]

Hopefully not! Time will tell how far the forces will take it.

 

[Lao Tzu]

consider the news source. Abu dhabi news posted on www.middleeast.org.

 

[Frackal]

granted, but that does not rule it out in the least

 

[Lao Tzu]

I tried looking it up on googlenews, and there was only 1 article and it was the same article you posted. So i guess we have to wait and see to determine if this really happened or not, and if so why it did.