The United States accused Syria of arming Hezbollah with advanced ballistic missiles, a document released Dec. 7 by WikiLeaks shows.
“We are concerned about Syria’s provision of increasingly sophisticated weapons to Hezbollah,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly wrote in a February 2010 secret diplomatic cable.
The United States believed that the transferred missiles included Scud-D missiles, which are capable of reaching Tel Aviv.
“I must stress that … we strongly caution [Syria] against such a serious escalation,” Clinton wrote.
Clinton called on Arab and Western nations to discuss the weapons transfers with Syria in order to bring them to a halt. — jta