A military spokesman denied today that Syria had fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli aircraft on a reconnaissance mission over Lebanon. The spokesman confirmed that there had been “routine reconnaissance flights” but the pilots reported no missiles fired at them, he said. Reports from Damascus and Beirut today claimed that Syrian SAM-6 missiles in the Beka valley in eastern Lebanon were fired at Israeli aircraft flying over the area.
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