Three different accounts. Let's compare the reporting.
The Old Gray Lady first:
"Israel Is Officially Silent on Syrian Report It Entered Airspace" by ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 — Israeli officials were tight-lipped on Thursday after Syria said that Israeli planes had violated its airspace early that morning and that Syrian air defenses had confronted the planes and repulsed them.
[That's how LIARS are!
Any U.N. action on this VIOLATION of international law -- AGAIN -- by Israel? Didn't think so.]
A Syrian military spokesman said that the Israeli planes had also dropped some munitions in unpopulated areas in the northern part of the country, according to the official Syrian news agency, SANA. The spokesman said there were no casualties or damage.
Israeli Army officials said only that they “are not accustomed to comment on reports of this nature.”
[Yeah, the stinkfuck assholes HATE GETTING CAUGHT and CALLED ON IT!
That's WHY I AM HERE!!!]
A government spokesman said he had “nothing to add.” In a speech here Thursday evening, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made no mention of the accusations from Syria. When asked about them by an Israeli journalist, he said, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
[What a STINKSHIT LIAR the DEMON Olmert is!!!
What a STINKFUCK LIAR!!!!!!]
The first official reports of Thursday’s episode emerged, by Syrian accounts, more than 12 hours after it took place.
[With BREAKING NEWS?
How come bin Laden is RIGHT UP, but this report lags?
C'mon, Amurka, WAKE UP to your LYING-SHIT MEDIA]
Syrian officials were quoted in various media as saying that the Israeli aircraft had infiltrated Syrian airspace around 1 a.m. They added that the Israeli planes were flying low, and broke the sound barrier.
Syria’s minister of information, Mohsen Bilal, told the satellite television network Al Jazeera:
“Syria retains the right to determine the quality, type and nature of its response.”
Syrian officials could not be reached directly for comment.
While the Israeli military would not comment, it seemed plausible that the Syrians had detected an Israeli overflight to test Syrian radar and reactions, and that the Syrian response caused the Israeli pilots to drop their munitions to fly higher and faster.
[Checking out the air tunnel to IRAN, 'eh, Israel?
WE KNOW what you are UP TO, stinkfucks!]
By late in the day, though, analysts and media on both sides seemed to be trying to scale down tensions over the reports. Israel’s Channel 2 television reported that unnamed Syrian officials had said they had no intention of being drawn into a war on Israel’s timetable or terms.
[Good!!!
So anything that happens there will be an ISRAELI FALSE-FLAG OPERATION by Mossad, no doubt, so WE WILL BE WATCHING, stink Zionists!]
Samir Taqqi, a political analyst at the Orient Center for Studies, a research institute in Damascus, said the Syrian response would probably be measured:
“I don’t think you’ll see it lash out. The response will be through a political mechanism, not military.”
[So WHO is for PEACE, and WHO is for WAR, reader?
Right there in front of you. Syria gets hit in the mouth, and won't punch back!]
Eyal Zisser, a Syria expert at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, said that if the Syrians had an interest in an escalation, he would have expected much shriller statements out of Damascus.
[Because Syria wants peace. CUI BONO, reader?]
The Syrian announcements came after months of increasing tension between Israel and Syria, with both in a heightened state of alert along their border.
[Watching for Mossad, stinkfucks. I'm on it!]
Some Syrian analysts in Damascus interpreted the reported incident as an Israeli provocation, possibly aimed at increasing the stakes between the two countries. Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has suggested that if Israel is not willing to resume negotiations for the return of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the alternative would be to try to regain the territory by force.
[That is a DAMNABLE LIE in the -- you got it -- stinkfuck N.Y. Times!!]
Thabet Salem, a Syrian political commentator, said of the day’s reports:
“Either this is in preparation for pushing Syria to peace talks by raising the stakes, or it’s an attempt to abort any sort of calls for peace talks.”
Formal peace talks between Israel and Syria broke down in 2000. Mr. Olmert has said he would be willing to resume talks if Syria showed its intentions were genuinely peaceful, for example by stopping its support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and for Palestinian militant factions based in Damascus.
[Yup, repeat the same old Zionist lies time-after-time!
Is ISRAEL going to stop its GENOCIDAL MASS-MURDER?!!
Is Israel going to APOLOGIZE for its AGGRESSION against Lebanon?
OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW?
Then, SHUT the FUCK UP, shitstink state!]
The Globe's take:
"Syria accuses Israel of violating its air space, dropping 'munitions'; Details regarding encounter unclear" by Albert Aji/Associated Press September 7, 2007
DAMASCUS - The Syrian government charged yesterday that Israeli aircraft dropped "munitions" inside Syria overnight and said its air defenses opened fire in a new escalation of tensions between the decades-old foes. It was unclear what happened. Syria stopped short of accusing Israel of purposely bombing its territory, and an Israeli spokesman said he could not comment on military operations.
Analysts speculated that such a foray could have been probing Syria's defenses or monitoring long-range missile bases. The reported path also would have taken the jets near Iran, whose growing power and anti-Israel government worries leaders of the Jewish state.
[Checking out the corridor!!
And they repeated the lies about Iran, too!
See how the western media works, reader?]
The incident came after a summer of building tensions that have fed worries of a military conflict erupting between Syria and Israel. Syria accused Israel last month of seeking a pretext for war, and the Israeli government is keeping a close watch on Syrian troop movements.
Both sides have insisted they want no conflict along the disputed frontier. But Syria fears it is being squeezed out of a US-brokered Mideast peace conference planned for November and will be left at a disadvantage in the standoff with Israel.
Syria has grown more vocal in pressing its demand that Israel give back the Golan Heights. Israel, in turn, seeks the return of three Israeli soldiers held for more than a year by two Syrian-allied militant groups, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territory.
[What does that have to do with bombing Syria? WTF, stinkfucking Zionists?
Israel gonna let free the Syrian and Lebanese prisoners it is holding?
Yeah, I thought not!
And where were those soldiers Hezbollah captured?
Oh!]
The official Syrian Arab News Agency quoted a military official as saying Israeli jets broke the sound barrier flying over northern Syria before dawn yesterday, then "dropped munitions" onto deserted areas after being shot at by Syria's air defenses.
Syria did not say the aircraft bombed its territory, however. Asked whether Israel attacked Syria, Buthaina Shaaban, a Cabinet minister, said only that the aircraft violated Syrian air space.
Syrian officials did not describe the "munitions" dropped. Pilots sometimes jettison extra fuel tanks when warplanes come under fire to make the craft lighter and easier to maneuver.
[Look at them making EXCUSES for Israel!!]
In Washington, the State Department had no specific comment on the incident, citing the lack of details about what happened."
[Just proves what LIARS the U.S. government is, and WHO they are WORKING FOR!]
Version three (of the web):
"Syria accuses Israel of bombing its territory" by Khaled Yacoub Oweis/Reuters September 6, 2007
DAMASCUS - Syria accused Israel of bombing its territory on Thursday and said it could respond to the Jewish state's "aggression and treachery."
[That's what it is, all right!]
Israel declined to comment on the charge by Syria, which said no casualties or damage were caused. The Syrian accusation was partly responsible for triggering a rise in world oil prices of more than $1.40 a barrel.
[Oh, the SYRIANS were responsible for oil prices going up!!!
Not the lying stinkfuck ISRAELIS that DROPPED the "MUNITIONS" and VIOLATED Syria's AIRSPACE!!
Yeah, those STINKFUCK FUCKING NaZionists NEVER TO BE BLAMED for anything, huh?
Well, FUCK THOSE STINKFUCKS!!!!]
A Western diplomat in Syria's capital Damascus, who declined to be named:
"It appears that the Israeli planes were on a reconnaissance mission when they got caught by Syrian defenses and were forced to drop their bombs and extra fuel tanks."
["Reconnaissance mission?" To or from WHERE?]
Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal told Al Jazeera television:
"This shows that Israel cannot give up aggression and treachery."
[And those lying, land-stealing bastards never will!]
Another Syrian official said: "They dropped bombs on an empty area while our air defenses were firing heavily at them."
The official news agency SANA said Syria "reserves the right to respond according to what it sees fit."
The Israeli military spokesman's office said in a statement: "It is not our custom to respond to these kinds of reports."
[Not your custom to respond to LAW-BREAKING, huh, stinkfuck liars?]
The office has typically commented on such charges, but a security source said the government had imposed a news blackout on the issue. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said there would be no comment beyond the military statement.
[Oh my God!!! The Times and Globe are -- ONCE AGAIN -- LYING to ME!!!!!!!]
In Washington, the White House declined to comment. Russia urged Israel to respect international law.
[Better watch it, Russia! You will start getting REAL BAD press!!]
The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement:
"The reports have caused extreme concern in Moscow. Particularly troubling is that this is the Middle East, a region already heavy with serious conflicts and tension."
Iran again criticized its foe Israel.
[What I would like to see in the papers someday is this:
"Israel again criticized its foe Iran."
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini:
"The aims of that ... provocative move by the Zionist regime was to shift its domestic crisis into areas other than Palestine, spreading insecurity in the region and covering up its failure in the 33-day war against Lebanon."
Iran's ambassador to Damascus had contacted Syrian security officials and said that "Iran is ready to provide every kind of assistance to Syria," the official IRNA news agency reported.
RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS
It is more than a year since Syrian guns opened fire on Israeli aircraft and Israeli jets last struck in 2003 across a border that remains tense but largely quiet 34 years after the last war between the two neighbors ended in an edgy ceasefire. Military analysts said Israel has conducted reconnaissance flights over Syria to probe its defenses.
Witnesses said several planes crossed deep into Syrian territory and flew over the oil centre of Deir al Zor on the Euphrates river. Residents in the Tal al-Abiad area on Syria's border with Turkey said they spotted several fuel tanks.
Turkish and Israeli officials denied a report from an Israeli military source that the Israeli air force had trained in Turkey as recently as this week. The last exercises concluded last month, officials in Ankara said.
[WOW!! What a BOMBSHELL!!!
And yet, I NEVER HEAR ABOUT Turkey anymore unless it is some bullshit election!
Killing Kurds? Doesn't make it!
Shelling Iraqi Kurds? Nothing but silence!
Working with Israel? Never hear about it!
NOW YOU KNOW WHY, reader!!!
Best proof yet of ISRAELI-BIAS in my shit war dailies!]
Some Israeli intelligence officials have suggested Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government might be ready to try to take by force parts of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in the war of 1967 and held on to in fighting in 1973.
[That's another BULLSHIT LIE!!! Fucking stink NaZionists!!]
Syrian officials have said Syria was seeking peaceful means to liberate the territory, although some have also suggested force remained an option if diplomacy failed. Some Israeli military officials have expressed alarm at what they say are reinforcements of Syrian posts and arms purchases.
[Yeah, couldn't be DEFENSIVE at all, not against the pure, victimized, militarily-aggressive shitstink state!
Oh no!
And it is OK for the U.S. and Israel to HOLD OUT FORCE if "diplomacy" doesn't work, but the LYING, SHITSTINKING FUCKING HYPOCRITES will HURL the FALSE CHARGE at others!!!!
Fucking SICK of that fucking shitty, shitty, SHITSTINK STATE!!!!!!!!]
But Olmert, who launched his forces against Syrian-allied Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon a year ago, has been at pains to say he has no hostile intentions toward Damascus.
[Awww, it PAINS Olmert to say he is not a fucking invading mass-murderer!!!
Aww, the POOR FUCKING STINK JEW!!!!!]
He has also said he would like to reopen peace negotiations that have been stalled for seven years. Syrian officials too have said they would like peace. But there has been little sign of any concrete steps towards rapprochement.
[Well, you could have DONE THAT anytime, you fucking lying, stinkfuck demon of Israel!
Yeah, that's YOU, Olmert, you fucking diarrhea shoveler!]
