JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad retains control of the country’s reputed chemical weapons and they are not sought by his Hezbollah guerrilla allies in neighboring Lebanon, a senior Israeli official said on Saturday. Defense Ministry strategist Amos Gilad spoke after another Israeli official said Israel had sent warplanes on Friday to attack a Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, where Assad is battling a more than two-year-old insurgency. …
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Israel: Syrian chemical arms safe, Hezbollah does not want them