Now, I predict that the US is going to claim Syria has not completely disposed of its chemical weapons, and use that as an excuse to air-strike army positions, possibly after another smaller chemical weapons attack is set up.
When Cairo's transport workers recently went on strike, the army supplied buses sporting posters with a soldier holding a baby, above the caption, "The people and army are one".
"Once, after a terrorist strike, the army just picked up some men in revenge and beat them up," he said.
But it occurred only a few miles from the site of a May 2002 suicide strike on army barracks that killed 34 soldiers and family members, infuriating Indian officials.
Mr. Yaalon added that Israel had not been involved in the American policy process regarding Syria and noted that given the postponement of any possible military strike, the army had released some of the reservists called up last week.
But once again plague struck the army, and Louis IX could not withstand it.
Striking regular army units in eastern Libya blockaded the oil ports, starving the government of revenue.
On Tuesday April 25th, a suicide bomber struck the army's heavily-fortified headquarters in the capital, Colombo.
Earlier Thursday, a car bomb struck an army convoy in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, killing three soldiers.
And in Tikrit, a roadside bomb struck an army patrol, killing two soldiers, a security official said.
On Friday and again on Sunday and today, the Maoists struck at army posts for the first time.
