SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2013 JAMADA ALTHANI 25, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Next Iranian Obama ends Rolling Stones Dortmund, president Latin America kick off North Bayern draw in likely to have trips with American tour Champions gentler13 touch trade23 focus to38 packed house League19 warm-up Israel bombs Hezb-bound Max 30º Min 19º missile shipment in Syria High Tide 05:27 & 15:50 Low Tide Warplanes did not hit Syrian chemical weapons 10:33 & 22:38 40 PAGES NO: 15799 150 FILS BEIRUT: Israel has carried out an air strike targeting a conspiracy theories shipment of missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon, an Israeli official said yesterday. Israel had long made clear it is prepared to resort to force to prevent advanced Syrian weapons, including What’s the President Bashar Al-Assad’s reputed chemical arsenal, being handed over to Lebanon’s powerful Shiite guerril- las. Assad and Hezbollah are allied to Iran, Israel’s arch- problem? enemy. With Assad battling a more than two-year-old Syrian insurgency, the Israelis also worry that the Sunni Islamist rebels could loot his arsenals and eventually hit the Jewish state, ending four decades of relative cross- border calm. Lacking a side to support in its northern neighbour’s civil war, and worried about inadvertently fuelling esca- By Badrya Darwish lation, Israel has exercised restraint. Its government did not formally confirm Friday’s air strike, which was dis- closed to Reuters by an Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “There was an air strike. The tar-
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