Syrian President Bashar Assad is reported byDEBKAfile's sources to have jilted Hizballah's Hassan Nasrallah and switched his support to the Sunni Prime Minister Saad Hariri in a deal with Saudi King Abdullah. With Assad it is hard to tell if he has really changed direction or pursuing a temporary gambit, but it has already freed Hariri from Nasrallah's pressure to annul the Hariri tribunal. Spurred by the power vacuum in Baghdad, Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders are set to leap into inter-communal warfare with regional fallout after Aug. 31 when the US pulls the bulk of its combat troops out as President Barack promised. US, Israeli, Egyptian and Jordanian counter-terror experts believe the Grad missiles fired at Aqaba early Monday, August 2, killing a Jordanian security officer and injuring four people, was part of a coordinated attack against Jordan, a US ally, and the US-led Multinational Force & Observers Organization in Sinai -MFO.
The next moves are up to the Hizballah leader and his bosses in Tehran.
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This is reported by DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources. The strike against the MFO, the subject of a news blackout, was confirmed by Israeli military sources and local witnesses.
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