Document: Syria orchestrated border battles with IsraelJune 14, 2011
A leaked Syrian government document shows that the regime
orchestrated last month's border clashes with Israel.Syrian security forces were told to grant free passage to 20 protester-filled buses and to allow them to cross the cease-fire line with Israel, according to the memorandum, which was which
was obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
"All security, military, and contingent units are hereby ordered to grant permission of passage to all twenty vehicles (47 passenger capacity) with the attached plate numbers that are scheduled to arrive at ten in the morning on Sunday May 15, 2011 without being questioned or stopped until it reaches or frontier defense locations," the document says.
"Permission is hereby granted allowing approaching crowds to cross the cease fire line (with Israel) towards the occupied Majdal-Shamms, and to further
allow them to engage physically with each other in front of United Nations agents and offices."
"It is essential to ensure that no one carries military identification or a weapon as they enter with a strict emphasis on the peaceful and spontaneous nature of the protest," the note adds.
Israeli troops patrol the border between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights early on Monday, June 6, 2011. Israel braced for more border violence after a day of deadly clashes with pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to surge into the Israeli-controlled Golan from Syria.
The memorandum also describes an "urgent meeting" between the army's deputy chief of staff and senior intelligence officials in a Syrian province adjacent to the Israeli border.
The document, which bears the Syrian state emblem and the signature of the mayor of Al-Qunaitera province, is dated May 14, 2011, the day before the clashes, which took place alongside smiliar rushes on Israel's borders with Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
The clashes turned deadly when Israeli forces fired on infiltrators who had breached the border.
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