From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihldt!ihtnt!rkj
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Syrian Missle Request
Article-I.D.: ihtnt.274
Posted: Fri Feb 18 13:11:54 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 02:14:55 1983


After the dust had settled from the Israeli drive
through Lebannon in which about 90 Syrian jets were
shot down compared to zero Israeli planes downed,
the Syrian defense minister went to Moscow.  He requested
a new shipment of missles, to which the Soviet defense
minister asked, "What is wrong with the missles we sent
you?"  The Syrian replied, "Those were all surface-to-air
missles.  We need surface-to-plane missles."