[knz]

Just saw your edit with Wikileaks. Thanks for sharing it. It's an interesting read especially in the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard.

It's all geopolitics...

[finid]

This one is even better. It's all the way from 2006, long before the so-called Arab Spring started.

http://wikileaks.cabledrum.net/cable/2006/12/06DAMASCUS5399....