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(IsraelNN.com) The heads of Military Intelligence and the Mossad told cabinet ministers Sunday that a war with Syria, should it break out, would not be decided by conventional ground and air combat but by ground to ground missiles. "Syria is in an accelerated process of military arming," they said, "and it is arming itself, among other things, with long range missiles."

"The negative trends are gaining strength," the intelligence heads said. They estimated that the most likely scenario for war would begin with a conflagration involving Hizbullah in the north, followed by war on the other fronts.

They outlined five major "hostile operational theaters": Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Gaza and the global jihad.