WHY DOESN'T HE JUST WEAR A "KICK ME" SIGN?

Syria has threatened to attack Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights if Tel Aviv launches another assault on its territory.

In a move that will raise tension after Israel struck a suspected terrorist training camp near Damascus earlier this month, Farouk Sharaa, Syria's foreign minister, warned that further "aggression" would prompt Syria to use "other cards"...

The foreign minister also claimed that Syria was unable to stop resistance fighters pouring across the border into Iraq to attack American troops. "They are very determined and many of them dream of seeing an American tank," he said.