-- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syrian President Bashar Assad told the British Broadcasting Corp. on Monday that Israeli warplanes attacked an "unused military building" in his country last month and said Damascus reserves the right to retaliate.So what would appropriate retaliation be... for a raid that risked a whole bunch of Israeli airman's lives and tens of millions of dollars of hardware... to flatten an empty building?
But Assad said his country was not about to attack Israel in response, suggesting he did not want to hurt chances at peace talks with the Jewish state.Syria... 10 monkeys, 10 typewriters, 10 minutes.
"This conference or any conference is going to be an opportunity but it should be purposeful. It should be substantive," he said. "I don't see where is the purpose and what is the substance of this conference. What are they going to talk about?"
Don't these guys ever listen to themselves?
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