TEXT OF TERM OF REFERENCE 1) d) PART 1 OF AUGUST 12, 1989 SUBMISSION TO U.S. SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY:

Nuke threat waved by Syria at Israel

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP)-A Saudi Arabian magazine quoted Syria's defence minister Wednesday as saying his country could acquire nuclear weapons, and is considering doing so to confront Israel.

"Syria has the ability to acquire this kind of (nuclear) weapon with a view to attaining a strategic balance with Israel,"1 Gen. Mustafa Tlas was quoted saying in the London-based, weekly magazine, Al-Majallah.

Israel has never said it possesses nuclear weapons.2

An account of Tlas' interview in the magazine was distributed by the Qatar News Agency.

Aapparently alluding to non-nuclear weapons, Tlas was quoted saying, "Syria has taken vast and comprehensive strides in building its armed forces and developing its combatants with the aim of attaining a strategic parity of the Israeli enemy."

He stressed Syria "will not take the initiative in introducing nuclear weapons to the Middle East, but at the same time, we won't sit back, arms folded, in the face of the Israeli nuclear threat."1

Last October the United Arab Emirates newspaper, Al-Ittihad, quoted Tlas saying the Soviet Union "has committed itself to supply Damascus with nuclear weapons if we are threatened by Israel with such types of weaponry."3


(text of December 12, 1985 Vancouver Sun article)


1-WITH WHAT WAS GENERAL TLAS EXPRESSING IN 1985 SYRIA'S DETERMINATION TO MAINTAIN A "STRATEGIC BALANCE"? WAS/IS THERE AN "ISRAELI NUCLEAR THREAT"?
TO FIND OUT, TAKE A BRIEF SERIES OF TWO SIDESTEPS HERE.


2-NO, ISRAEL MAY HAVE "NEVER SAID IT POSSESSES NUCLEAR WEAPONS."

BUT IF VISITORS TO THIS AWARD-WINNING WEBSITE HAVE NOT TAKEN THE BRIEF SERIES OF TWO SIDESTEPS ABOVE TO CONSIDER WHAT ITS FORMER PRIME MINISTER (AND CO-RECIPIENT OF THE 1994 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE) SAID AND WHAT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SAID ABOUT THIS BY ONE OF ITS FRIENDS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY...AND REPORTED IN THE SAUDI GAZETTE...TAKE THAT BRIEF SERIES OF SIDESTEPS NOW.


3-ON THE SUBJECT OF THE DEAD SOVIET UNION AND WHAT "ALL OF US" MAY BE ABLE TO LEARN TODAY ABOUT WHAT IT DID CONCERNING THIS MATTER...IF "ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE" MEMBER SYRIA IS NOW RELUCTANT TO TELL "ALL OF US"--CONSIDER WHAT IS FOUND IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE.


NO, I'M NOT OBLIVIOUS TO WHAT DRAWING ATTENTION TO THIS MAY DO.

BEFORE VISITORS TO THIS AWARD-WINNING WEBSITE PANIC OR DO ANYTHING CRAZY, THEY SHOULD TAKE THEIR NEXT FOOTSTEP(S) HERE...AND NOTE THAT THE PROMISE IS MADE THERE TO UPDATE THE LINKS FROM IT TO CONFIRM RESPONSES RECEIVED AD INFINITUM TO THOSE REGISTERED LETTERS.