Debka:
"India and Pakistan may have crossed the point of no return in their war plans. It is now evident that the visits paid by defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week to New Delhi and Islamabad did little more than postpone the eruption for which both nuclear nations have set their faces.
In the Middle East, a military clash between Israel on one side and Syria and the Lebanese Hizballah is very much in the cards. Since Damascus and Baghdad are bound by mutual defense treaties, the Hizballah is militarily affiliated to Teheran and Damascus - and all these parties are in close military and political alliance with the Palestinians -- an Israel-Syrian border confrontation could quickly light the fire of war under the entire region. The belligerents in this case would proliferate to encompass the United States, possibly Britain, as well as Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the Hizballah and the Palestinians.
India and Pakistan are fully engaged in this war of words. It cannot be ruled out therefore that a Middle East war will be accompanied by a war on the subcontinent."
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