Syria threatens to retaliate if Israel strikes again: report

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Syria threatens to retaliate if Israel strikes again: report

Syria has indicated that it might be forced to retaliate if Israel launches another assault on its territory, the British Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday.

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Syria has indicated that it might be forced to retaliate if Israel launches another assault on its territory, the British Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday.

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa was quoted as saying in an interview with the paper that further "aggression" would promptSyria to use "other cards."

The report came after Israeli army attacked a Palestinian camp in Syria earlier this month in retaliation for a suicide bombing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, which killed about 19 people.

"We have many cards that we have not played. Don't forget thereare many Israeli settlements in the Golan. I am not exaggerating, but I am describing things as they might happen," Sharaa said in the interview.

"After the attack, we acted in a responsible way and went to the United Nations, and a majority of our people supported that...But if we are attacked again, our people will not stand for it andwe have to carry out the will of the people," the foreign ministersaid.

Sharaa also said in the interview that Syria was unable to stopresistance fighters pouring across the border into Iraq to attack American troops.

"We are doing everything we can...We have tightened our checkpoints and are turning people back. But the border is long and we cannot cover it all," said the foreign minister.

"If America, a rich superpower, cannot stop Mexicans crossing into the United States, then how can we, a poor country, be expected to stop Palestinians getting into Iraq," Sharaa added.

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