Drudge has affixed his police siren to this Jerusalem Post story, which details Syrian claims that Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace last night, dropped unspecified munitions on unspecified targets, and were chased out by anti-aircraft fire. The Israeli response, at least the public one, has been the expression of befuddlement at the claims. Little is known about this story right now — it could be true, it might be partially true, or it might be a total fabrication on the part of the Syrians, who do not have what one could call a reputation for honesty in these matters. My IDF contacts said they knew nothing of the incident. The long and short of it is that the people who know what did or did not happen aren’t speaking publicly about it. Given the tensions on the Israeli-Syrian border over the summer, this incident is cause for concern, but I’m skeptical that it deserves full-hype treatment at the moment. More coverage — although nothing new — here and here.

If memory serves, the last time Israel struck inside Syria was in 2003, when the IAF bombed an Islamic Jihad camp near Damascus the day after an IJ suicide bombing killed 19 Israelis in Haifa.