By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 2 --
At
the UN waiting
continues
for Syria's
and / or the
Security
Council's
response to
Israeli's air
strikes of
early January
30 - now said
to be multiple
and US
approved.
But
at the Munich
Security
Conference UK
Defence
Minister Phil
Hammond was tweet-quoted
that "as far
as UK knows,
there was just
1 target of
Israel air
strikes in
Syria, anti
aircraft
missiles, no
WMD link."
This
came from the
Guardian's
diplomatic
editor, who
said it
was from
Hammond
himself, and
was "oven-fresh."
Of
course,
this is the
same Phil
Hammond who
the day before
the Israeli
air strikes
said that Mali
is
predominantly
Christians. At
the UN,
Inner City
Press asked
the UK
Mission's
spokesperson
Iona Thomas,
who
confirmed that
Hammond
"misspoke."
And
this time?
Wags wonder if
Hammond is inept
or aspirational.
Then
the search was
on to ferret
out how in
this case the
UK (or just
Hammond) knows
what he knows.
Haaretz'
diplomat
correspondent
chimed
in that
Hammond was on
Ehud Barak's
schedule, and
opined
that Barak
was probably
Hammond's
source on
strikes (if
not religion).
But
how to
explain, then,
TIME's
report
sourced to "a
Western
intelligence
official" that
Israel hit
more targets
than
Syria
admitted, and
that according
to "officials"
the US has
given the
green light to
more
Israeli
strikes? Watch
this site.
