DEBKAfile Special Report September 3, 2009, 10:13 AM (GMT+02:00) Hizballah operative training with anti-chemical mask The Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa reported Thursday, Sept. 3, that chemical weapons were stored in the hidden Hizballah arms warehouse which blew up at Hirbet Salim near the Israeli border in mid-July. Of the 11 Hizballah operatives killed in the blast, 3 died of chemical poisoning. A European source quoted an Arab official as predicting that Hizballah is gearing up "for something big." DEBKAfile Special Analysis September 3, 2009, 8:13 PM (GMT+02:00) Jonathan Pollard The main conclusions of state comptroller Michah Lindenstrauss's report, published Thursday, Sept. 3, do not address intelligence and political realities and will therefore not affect the US decision never to release Jonathan Pollard from the life sentence without parole given him in 1985 for spying for Israel, or ease his exceptionally harsh conditions of imprisonment. The controller was asked to survey the manner in which successive Israel governments sought to secure Pollard's release during his 24 years of incarceration. DEBKAfile's intelligence analysts explain why the Lindenstrauss Report's conclusions were irrelevant. Hizballah deploys chemical and biological weapons near Israeli border - Arab, European sources
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