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Israel strikes Syria after suicide attack

REUTERS/AFP, jerusalem
Israel yesterday took its battle against Palestinian militants to Syria, bombing near the capital Damascus for the first time in decades, after a suicide bomber killed 19 people in an Israeli restaurant.
It was the first time Israel had struck so far inside Syrian territory since the 1973 Middle East war, military commen tators said.
''The Israel Defence Forces operated last night deep inside Syrian territory and hit a training base used
by terror groups, including Islamic lihad." the army said about the air attack at Ain Saheb, about 20 km (12 miles) northwestof Damascus.
But Syria said the strikes hit refugees living near the Lebanese border.
Terming it a 'serious escalation', Syria said it sent an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council over the air raid, the first direct military confrontation between Israel and Syria since the Yom Kippur war exactly 30years ago.
''Israel attacked a civilian area", Israeli warplanes hit a Syrian radar position in Lebanon in 2001 and targets just inside Syria in the 1982 Lebanon war, but Sunday's raid was said to be the deepest inside Syria for three decades.
"It was a very clear, focused message...to (Syria) to start dismantling the terror organisations that operate from its territory," said Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Islamic Jihad issued a statement denying it had any training camps in Syria. The group and other Palestinian militant factions have spearheaded a three-year-old uprising for statehood.
The surprise Israeli move came amid speculation Israel would target Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, whom it has threatened to exile.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Sunday Arafat's expulsion would not serve the cause of peace and accused Israel of provoking Palestinians to commit acts of violence.
Israeli government sources said no move against Arafat was imminent. The United States opposes exiling Arafat, saying he would only win world sympathy.
Faced with the impasse, Sharon's fighting image at home could receive a boost from the show of strength against Syria, one of Israel's most bitter foes, as the Jewish state headed into the Yom Kippur fast day, a time of national reflection.
The army said the base in Syria was funded by Iran and used to train Palestinian militants, mostly from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, in bomb-making and guerrilla fighting.
"We will not tolerate the continuation of this axis of terror between Tehran, Damascus and Gaza to continue to operate and kill innocent men, women and children," Gissin told CNN.
A senior Israeli military official declined comment when asked if any attack on Iran was being contemplated. The official said al Qaeda operatives had also trained in the camp but gave no details and added it was unclear if any were at the facility.
In August, Israeli jets buzzed Assad's holiday palace in an overflight widely seen as a warning to rein in militants.
Hours after the Haifa bombing, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at what the army said was a Hamas weapons depot in the Gaza Strip. No one was hurt. Israeli forces also blocked the Gaza Strip's main highways to Palestinian traffic.
Islamic Jihad named the suicide bomber as Hanadi Tayseer Jaradat, a 29-year-old lawyer from the West Bank city of Jenin whom an Israeli newspaper dubbed "the devil's advocate".
Islamic Jihad and relatives said she was avenging Israel's killing of her brother and cousin, Islamic Jihad members.