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Before and after documentation of destruction of Syria's nuclear site |
LONDON -- The British intelligence service MI6 says secret backroom meetings at the Mediterranean Nations summit in Paris earlier this month could lead to a dramatic shift of power in the Middle East, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
At the meetings attended by Syrian, Spanish, Italian and Israeli intelligence chiefs, it emerged that plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities will fail to destroy them because no Western intelligence service or Mossad knows where every facility is located.
Gaps in the intelligence on the precise location and vulnerability of the Iranian nuclear complexes emerged during the outside-of-conference meetings between the intelligence chiefs.
At the end of one meeting, Alon Liel, a former director of Israel's foreign ministry, confirmed Israel had been engaged in "low-key second-track discussions for many months" with Syria.
Key to the progress of those talks was whether Syria was ready to break its close ties with Iran in return for the U.S. giving Damascus financial and military backing.
Liel made it clear that any deal with Syria would require its ending support for military groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah – both backed by Iran.
It was also made clear that any deal with Syria would probably not come until there was a new president in the White House.
An indication of how far the backroom meetings had progressed came from the Turkish foreign minister, Ali Babacan, who said there had been "real progress to formal talks between Tel Aviv and Damascus."
Both the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and his foreign minister, Tzipi Livni – herself a former Mossad officer – sat alongside their Syrian counterparts, President Assad and his foreign minister, Walid al-Muallim.
Publicly, Olmert acknowledged that the time was "fast approaching for direct talks."
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