".Hamas is the Palestinian Track ...Hizbollah is the Lebanese track...and we are not in Lebanon today..we are only talking about the Syrian track.."

Syrian President Assad to The Hindu, here

"... But, the question here is why did they announce it (Bombing at Al Kibar-see below) seven months after the bombing? Why did they not announce it at that time in order to send a delegation from the IAEA to see what is happening? Let us put it this way: they said there was a facility and they bombed this facility and now they have the evidence. How could we not have this evidence seven months ago? Why do they have the evidence today? Because after seven months you could say that Syria built that facility and now it is demolished and they rebuild it in a different way; this is their excuse. While if they gave this alleged evidence at that time, their story would not have been proved genuine or credible. So, this is their ploy, and we did not raise this issue, and we said that time that this is an evidence for us that the Israelis are not serious about peace..."