By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 9 --
Syria has
filed another
"urgent"
letter with
the UN
Security
Council,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon
and UN
Peacekeeping
chief Herve
Ladsous,
explaining its
tanks' entry
into and
withdrawal
from the Golan
Area of
Separation.
Syria
stated that it
got approval
from the UN
for
"conducting a
limited
military
operation to
free two
villages from
terrorist
groups." The
villages are
Breiqa and
Beir Ajam.
"As
a result of
this oral
approval from
UNDOF," says
the unofficial
translation of
Syria's letter
exclusively
obtained by
Inner City
Press, "a
small military
force entered
the mentioned
area and
chased the
terrorists."
Numerous
statements
of UN
officials and
diplomats have
omitted this
"oral
approval from
UNDOF."
The
letter
recounts how
"during the
second half of
October 2012,
armed
terrorist
elements
started to
appear" in the
two
villages...
Due to calls
from the
inhabitants of
those two
villages
for the army
to assist in
chasing the
terrorists
out.... there
was a
need for a
limited
military
operation to
restore
security to
the
area."
UNDOF
was contacted,
and according
to Syria gave
its approval
"after
few hours."
Syria's
letter
says that "at
17:00 hours on
Thursday
November 8th,
2012,
the tanks were
withdrawn...
while our law
enforcement
members
remained
inside the
village of
Beir Ajam...
within the
next 72 hours
the military
operation will
be completed
there."
The
letter
concludes that
"if some
bullets
crossed over
to the
Israeli side,
those should
be stray
bullets, or
bullets from
the guns
used by the
armed groups."
Syria's letter: "Top Urgent," photo by MRLee
There
is also a UN /
UNDOF "Agenda
Point" in
which Maj.
Gen. I.S.
Singha, the
Force
Commander of
UNDOF, states
to Syrian
Commanding
Colonel
Engineer Mazen
Ibrahim Younes
that "the only
available
information we
received from
A-Side is that
they
apprehended
one
JORDANIAN
citizen on 20
September 2012
in the
Southern part
of the
AOS." Watch
this site.
UNDOF's Singha's note on captured Jordanian, photo by MRLee
