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It shall be interesting to see how they deal with item below. Appologies for the size of this email. There is a little of stuff talking about last month.
Charlie Rose Interview
Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
with Bashar al-Assad
in Current Affairs
on Thursday, May 27, 2010
Syria accused of arming Hezbollah from secret bases
Hezbollah is running weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, from secret arms depots in Syria to its bases in Lebanon, according to security sources.
The Times has been shown satellite images of one of the sites, a compound near the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus, where militants have their own living quarters, an arms storage site and a fleet of lorries reportedly used to ferry weapons into Lebanon.
The military hardware is either of Syrian origin or sent from Iran by sea, via Mediterranean ports, or by air, via Damascus airport. The arms are stored at the Hezbollah depot and then trucked into Lebanon.
“Hezbollah is allowed to operate this site freely,” said a security source. “They often move the arms in bad weather when Israeli satellites are unable to track them.”
The revelation adds to growing fears in the West that the regime of Bashar Assad, the President of Syria, is becoming increasingly close to Hezbollah and its main supporter, Iran. Syria has long backed the Lebanese militant group, but until now most of those contacts have taken place on Lebanese soil.There are fears that if Israel and Hezbollah clash again — as happened in August 2006 — Syria could become directly embroiled in the conflict.
Israel reportedly planned recently to bomb one of the arms convoys as it crossed the border into Lebanon, but the operation was called off at the last minute. Western intelligence sources say that the Israelis have yielded — for now — to American diplomatic efforts to persuade Syria to stop the arms transfers. However, the apparent lack of success is increasing the chances that Israel may send a “calibrated signal” to Hezbollah and Syria by launching an airstrike against an arms depot or weapons convoy.
Jihad Makdissi, the spokesman for the Syrian Embassy in London, insisted that all military sites in Syria were exclusive to the Syrian military.
“Syria and Israel remain in a state of war as long as Israel refuses to implement UNSC [United Nations Security Council] resolutions to end the occupation of Arab lands; therefore if these military depots really exist it would be for the exclusive use of the Syrian Army to defend Syrian soil, and it is definitely nobody’s business,” he said.
Arming Hezbollah was banned under the provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brought an end to the 2006 war. Since then, however, Hezbollah has managed to replenish its military stocks and the group is thought to have amassed more than 40,000 rockets and missiles, ranging from short-range Katyushas to medium-range M600 missiles and the Soviet-era Scud ballistic missile, which is capable of hitting most big population centres in Israel.
Yossi Baidatz, an Israeli intelligence officer, told the Knesset this month that the amount of arms being sent to Hezbollah by Syria and Iran could no longer be described as “smuggling”. He said it was an “organised and official transfer” of weapons and that the Scuds were “only the tip of the iceberg”.
Syria has denied arming Hezbollah with Scuds, but America and Israel insist they have hard intelligence to the contrary.
The Times has learnt that US and Israeli intelligence agencies suspect that two Scud missiles have entered Lebanon and could be hidden in underground arms depots in the northern Bekaa Valley. One source said there were indications that Hezbollah may even be considering returning the missiles because of the intensified scrutiny.
Western officials have repeatedly urged President Assad to halt the flow of weapons to Hezbollah. John Kerry, the head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Damascus in April and presented the Syrian President with evidence that Scuds had been transferred to Hezbollah, according to Western diplomatic sources. Mr Assad denied the allegations.
Western officials privately say that the Syrian leader is “flat out lying” about the arms transfers.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article7110896.ece
Claims and counterclaims about Hezbollah acquiring new Scud missiles
Hezbollah militants parade through the streets of the Lebanese city Nabatiyeh in January last year
Mr Gates added, during a joint meeting with Ehud Barak, the visiting Israeli Defence Minister, that Hezbollah’s significant missile capacity was “obviously destabilising for the whole region and we’re watching it very carefully”.
Hezbollah, which is closely allied to both Iran and Syria, has called the reports of the missile deployment a “hoax” designed to trigger another war that could reshape the balance of power in the Middle East, although a Hezbollah MP said that “our choice remains to secure all the arms of resistance that we can.”
Israel also accuses Iran of supplying missiles with a range of up to 40 miles to its ally Hamas in the blockaded Gaza Strip, putting Tel Aviv withinin its sights. Some senior officials fear that if war breaks out with Iran over its nuclear programme, Tehran will unleash not only its own long-range Shihab missiles — capable of hitting anywhere in Israel — but also its proxies’ arsenals into its densely-populated coastal cities.
The reports of the Scud deployment emerged earlier this month in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai and were later confirmed by Israeli sources, although some Western agencies have reservations about the accuracy of the information.
The same Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday that it was US officials who leaked the intelligence in order to "lay the groundwork for a proposal to the UN Security Council, to put together a resolution on the deployment of UN forces along the Syrian-Lebanese border."
That would cut off supplies coming to the militia from Syria, the main hub for Hezbollah munitions, and lessen the likelihood of a renewed conflict, the paper said. But a source close to Hezbollah insisted that Lebabon would never agree to such a deployment along the Syrian border, Al Rai said.
The situation was further confused when Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt’s Foreign Minister, said during a visit to Beirut that the missile deployment was a “big lie” although Egypt, the first Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel, assured Lebanon Israel had no intention of attacking it.
Just another drill — but next time it could be the real thing
The ominous wail of air raid sirens along the beach front and busy boulevards of Tel Aviv was met with a strange mixture of dread and apathy this week. Although Israelis knew that their security services were practising countering potential missile strikes in the event of another war, many still scrambled to turn on radios or televisions or phone relatives to find out if this was, in fact, the real thing. The baleful droning dredged up painful memories of 1991, when Saddam Hussein lobbed Scud missiles from Iraq as his army was forced out of Kuwait by US and British forces.
But the next time — and many Israelis believe that it is just a question of time — the barrages of rockets will come from Iran, Lebanon and Gaza, and could number in their tens of thousands.
“I think they are preparing for war with Iran,” said one hairdresser as her colleagues scrambled to find out what was going on. They were supposed to head to one of the many air raid shelters in the coastal city, which was spared the rockets in the 2006 war with Hezbollah, but which is likely to be under fire next time, as Iran’s allies in Lebanon and Gaza develop longer-range missiles.
Israel says that Syria is providing Hezbollah with the latest generation of Scud missiles, capable of hitting Tel Aviv or the nuclear reactor at Dimona.
But more than half the population did not even bother heading to the shelters during the five day exercise, dubbed Operation Turning Point 4. Some of the sirens failed to operate and there were reports of some shelters being locked, and the general apathy from the population raised concerns about the level of civilian preparedness for war. Even MPs had to be reminded by Knesset guards to head to their shelters in the assembly building in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, across Israel’s cities, men in nuclear-chemical-biological rubber suits could be seen rushing to imaginary impact sites as police hoisted dummies on to stretchers and oversaw potential evacuations of urban zones. During the 2006 war some 300,000 Israeli fled the rockets landing in the north. This time, officials practised accommodating large numbers of Tel Aviv refugees in Jewish settlements inside the West Bank, which are expected to be spared the onslaught.
The drill was the fourth annual exercise since the 2006 war, and Israel sought to reassure its neighbours in the hair-trigger region that it was merely routine. However, officials from Hezbollah said that thousands of its militants had been moved closer to the border, as were a number of Lebanese army units. Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, denounced the operation as “running counter to peace efforts.”
Israeli tanks lie smashed and upturned on a remote mountaintop in south Lebanon, while Hezbollah fighters, wearing camouflaged uniforms and carrying rifles, crouch near by in the dense undergrowth.
The scene could be the latest battle between the militant Shia group and Israeli troops, but while the tanks are real, the fighters are plastic dummies and the display is part of a newly opened tourist project to mark the tenth anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon.
That historic event — the first time Israel unilaterally abandoned occupied Arab land — comes at a time of heightened tension in the region amid fears that another war is brewing between Hezbollah and the Jewish state.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, vowed in a speech on Tuesday night that in the next war, his organisation could attack Israel-bound shipping in the Mediterranean.
Addressing Israel, he said: “If you launch a new war on Lebanon, if you blockade our coastline, all military, civilian or commercial ships heading through the Mediterranean to occupied Palestine will be targeted by the Islamic resistance.”
During the July 2006 war with Israel, Hezbollah hit and disabled an Israeli navy boat with a missile.
One of Israel’s near-guaranteed targets if another war does break out is the sprawling Mlita tourist site devoted to Hezbollah’s military struggle against Israel’s occupation of Lebanon. Hezbollah officials cheerfully admit that the site will be flattened in the next war, but say that they will rebuild it.
The project, which opened to the public on Tuesday, covers a mountaintop smothered in dense bushes and stubby oak trees. It was a secret frontline base for the guerrillas during the Israeli occupation. On the other side of a gaping valley, Israeli outposts once stood, often the target of Hezbollah fighters based in Mlita. The bulldozed earth ramparts of the hilltop Israeli positions have since disappeared, washed away by the rains of ten winters.
Hundreds of visitors were gawping at the symbolic displays of smashed Israeli tanks, artillery cannon and piles of old army helmets. Children scrambled over upturned armoured personnel carriers watched by neatly dressed and polite Hezbollah attendants wearing black baseball caps.
“The Israelis used to drop cluster bombs that looked like toys for our children to play with,” said Abu Hadi, a veteran fighter and tour guide at Mlita, referring to a longstanding allegation in Lebanon. “Now we tell the Israelis that we have their tanks for our children to play with.”
Pathways wind beneath the canopy of oak trees and camouflage netting revealing displays of weaponry, including Russian Kornet anti-tank missiles and RPG29 rockets used by Hezbollah in the 2006 war. It also features small tableaux of plastic dummy Hezbollah fighters in uniforms creeping through the undergrowth or carrying ammunition and rockets.
On the floor of a rocky alcove rests a prayer mat and an open copy of the Koran beside an old AK47 rifle. It was the favourite place of prayer for Sheikh Abbas Mussawi, a Hezbollah leader killed by Israel in 1992. A recording of Mussawi’s gravelly voice murmuring prayers wafts through the trees.
“Those of us who used to be based here in the 1980s when Sayyed Abbas was here begin to weep when they hear his voice in this place,” Abu Hadi, who served in Mlita in the 1980s, said.
Perhaps the highlight of the exhibition is the 600ft (180m) tunnel built over three years from 1985. According to a sign at the entrance, it took 1,000 fighters to bore out the tunnel and adjoining chambers using picks and pneumatic drills.
The cramped passageway was lined with soldered steel plates and is the prototype of the bunker networks that Hezbollah built in the southern Lebanon border district in the years after the Israeli withdrawal in 2000. These were used to good effect against invading Israeli troops in the 2006 war. A glassed-in “operations room” deep inside the bunker has military maps pinned to a wall and an old computer. Recordings of fighters communicating by radio are played over loudspeakers.
The Mlita project is undeniably slick and impressive — the organisers even hired a marketing consultant to design a logo and “corporate identity” for it. Hezbollah plans to open two new tourist centres devoted to the “resistance” elsewhere in south Lebanon. The goal is not limited to celebrating past battlefield exploits, but also to encourage young Lebanese Shia to embrace the continuing struggle against Israel.
“As the main centre of the resistance from the 1980s, this place talks to the souls of the visitors,” Sheikh Ali Daher, the head of Hezbollah’s publicity department, said. “The whole project is to tell the story of resistance to the new generation.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7137553.ece
Hezbollah theme park woos fighters for next war with Israel
1 of 2Visitors gaze at a smashed Israeli tank at Hezbollah's "Tourist Complex" in Mlita Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
2 of 2Visitors can also see the "operations room" where Hezbollah conducted its war Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli tanks lie smashed and upturned on a remote mountaintop in south Lebanon, while Hezbollah fighters, wearing camouflaged uniforms and carrying rifles, crouch near by in the dense undergrowth.
The scene could be the latest battle between the militant Shia group and Israeli troops, but while the tanks are real, the fighters are plastic dummies and the display is part of a newly opened tourist project to mark the tenth anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon.
That historic event — the first time Israel unilaterally abandoned occupied Arab land — comes at a time of heightened tension in the region amid fears that another war is brewing between Hezbollah and the Jewish state.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, vowed in a speech on Tuesday night that in the next war, his organisation could attack Israel-bound shipping in the Mediterranean.
Addressing Israel, he said: “If you launch a new war on Lebanon, if you blockade our coastline, all military, civilian or commercial ships heading through the Mediterranean to occupied Palestine will be targeted by the Islamic resistance.”
During the July 2006 war with Israel, Hezbollah hit and disabled an Israeli navy boat with a missile.
One of Israel’s near-guaranteed targets if another war does break out is the sprawling Mlita tourist site devoted to Hezbollah’s military struggle against Israel’s occupation of Lebanon. Hezbollah officials cheerfully admit that the site will be flattened in the next war, but say that they will rebuild it.
The project, which opened to the public on Tuesday, covers a mountaintop smothered in dense bushes and stubby oak trees. It was a secret frontline base for the guerrillas during the Israeli occupation. On the other side of a gaping valley, Israeli outposts once stood, often the target of Hezbollah fighters based in Mlita. The bulldozed earth ramparts of the hilltop Israeli positions have since disappeared, washed away by the rains of ten winters.
Hundreds of visitors were gawping at the symbolic displays of smashed Israeli tanks, artillery cannon and piles of old army helmets. Children scrambled over upturned armoured personnel carriers watched by neatly dressed and polite Hezbollah attendants wearing black baseball caps.
“The Israelis used to drop cluster bombs that looked like toys for our children to play with,” said Abu Hadi, a veteran fighter and tour guide at Mlita, referring to a longstanding allegation in Lebanon. “Now we tell the Israelis that we have their tanks for our children to play with.”
Pathways wind beneath the canopy of oak trees and camouflage netting revealing displays of weaponry, including Russian Kornet anti-tank missiles and RPG29 rockets used by Hezbollah in the 2006 war. It also features small tableaux of plastic dummy Hezbollah fighters in uniforms creeping through the undergrowth or carrying ammunition and rockets.
On the floor of a rocky alcove rests a prayer mat and an open copy of the Koran beside an old AK47 rifle. It was the favourite place of prayer for Sheikh Abbas Mussawi, a Hezbollah leader killed by Israel in 1992. A recording of Mussawi’s gravelly voice murmuring prayers wafts through the trees.
“Those of us who used to be based here in the 1980s when Sayyed Abbas was here begin to weep when they hear his voice in this place,” Abu Hadi, who served in Mlita in the 1980s, said.
Perhaps the highlight of the exhibition is the 600ft (180m) tunnel built over three years from 1985. According to a sign at the entrance, it took 1,000 fighters to bore out the tunnel and adjoining chambers using picks and pneumatic drills.
The cramped passageway was lined with soldered steel plates and is the prototype of the bunker networks that Hezbollah built in the southern Lebanon border district in the years after the Israeli withdrawal in 2000. These were used to good effect against invading Israeli troops in the 2006 war. A glassed-in “operations room” deep inside the bunker has military maps pinned to a wall and an old computer. Recordings of fighters communicating by radio are played over loudspeakers.
The Mlita project is undeniably slick and impressive — the organisers even hired a marketing consultant to design a logo and “corporate identity” for it. Hezbollah plans to open two new tourist centres devoted to the “resistance” elsewhere in south Lebanon. The goal is not limited to celebrating past battlefield exploits, but also to encourage young Lebanese Shia to embrace the continuing struggle against Israel.
“As the main centre of the resistance from the 1980s, this place talks to the souls of the visitors,” Sheikh Ali Daher, the head of Hezbollah’s publicity department, said. “The whole project is to tell the story of resistance to the new generation.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3895419,00.html
Report: Syria arming Hezbollah from secret bases
British Times reports satellite images reveal Shiite organization 'allowed to operate freely' at secret compound in Syrian town of Adra, from which missiles are sent to Lebanon. Intelligence sources say ongoing smuggling increases chances of Israeli strike
Ynet
| Published: | 05.28.10, 09:01 / Israel News |
The chances that Israel may send a "calibrated signal" to Hezbollah and Syria by launching a precise airstrike against a weapons convoy are increasing, the British Times reported on Friday, following reports of Israeli plans to bomb a Syrian arms convey as it crossed the border into Lebanon. The Israeli strike was reportedly called off at the last minute.
Friday's report covered tensions in the region, and citied satellite images of secret arms depots in Syria, in which surface-to-surface missiles destined for Hezbollah are stored
According to the report, the Times has been shown images of one such site, located in a compound near the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus. The site reportedly includes living quarters for Hezbollah fighters, arms sheds and a fleet of trucks used for transferring weapons. The facility is believed to be one of several used as a base for weapons deliveries.
“Hezbollah is allowed to operate this site freely,” a security source told the paper. “They often move the arms in bad weather when Israeli satellites are unable to track them.” The weapons in question are either of Syrian origin, or are delivered from Iran by sea or by air.
It was recently reported that Syria transferred Scud missiles to the Shiite organization. The Times report claims that only two missiles were transferred, which American and Israeli intelligence sources believe have been stored in underground bunkers in the Bekaa Valley.
In light of the tight surveillance, one source said that Hezbollah may be considering returning the missiles.
Earlier this month, Yossi Baidatz, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence research department, said the recent transfer of arms to Hezbollah was just the "tip of the iceberg," and the Times reported that the M-600 missiles Hezbollah posses grant the organization unprecedented accuracy that threatens strategic facilities inside Israel.
Syrian diplomat: Our bases nobody's business
After the Israeli strike on one of the arms convoys was called off, reportedly around the time of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's visit to Damascus along with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel depended on American diplomatic efforts to put an end to the deliveries.
But according to Western intelligence sources, the failure of these efforts increase the chances of a targeted Israeli attack against a weapons warehouse or delivery.
John Kerry, head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Damascus several times in recent months, and reportedly urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to halt the flow or weapons to Lebanon.
Assad denied the allegations, and Western officials privately said the Syrian president is "flat out lying" about the weapons transfer to Hezbollah.
The Syrians insist that all their bases are exclusive to the Syrian military. Jihad Makdissi, the spokesman for the Syrian Embassy in London said, “Syria and Israel remain in a state of war as long as Israel refuses to implement UNSC (United Nations Security Council) resolutions to end the occupation of Arab lands; therefore if these military depots really exist it would be for the exclusive use of the Syrian Army to defend Syrian soil, and it is definitely nobody’s business,” he said.
An aircraft full of weapons seized in Bangkok last year was heading from North Korea to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, and Hamas, the Palestinian group, Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Foreign Minister, said yesterday.
The Thai authorities said that the aircraft was carrying 35 tonnes of weapons, including rockets and rocket-propelled grenades. The Thai Government informed the UN that the haul had been bound for Iran, which is believed to ship weapons to its ally Syria, which distributes them to Hezbollah or Hamas.
North Korea had the “intention to smuggle these weapons to Hamas and to Hezbollah”, Mr Lieberman said in Japan, where he was on an official visit. “This co-operation between North Korea and Syria [does not] improve the economic situation in their countries,” he added.
Tensions on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon increased after Israel said that Syria had transferred new Scud missiles to Hezbollah, which has an estimated 42,000 rockets pointed at the Jewish state, with whom it fought a bitter summer war in 2006. The new rockets are believed capable of accuratelyhitting any target inside Israel, although Israel has developed its own missile system capable of bringing down incoming projectiles.
Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad has focused much of its attention on preventing weapons from Iran and Syria reaching their proxies on Israel’s borders, launching a long-range airstrike on a weapons convoy in Sudan in early 2009, and blowing up what was thought to be a nuclear facility under construction in Syria in 2007. That facility was believed to have been based on North Korean technology.
In January, Israel was widely believed to be behind the Dubai assassination of a senior Hamas militant overseeing the transfer of weapons from Iran to Gaza.
The Hizballah tag
http://www.themajlis.org/tag/hizballah
http://www.themajlis.org/2010/04/21/hariri-scud-reports-like-iraq-wmd-claims
Tension in the Levant
Hariri: Scud reports like Iraq WMD claims
Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri says Hizballah has not received Scud missiles from Syria, and likens that report to the weapons of mass destruction claims that preceded the Iraq war.
Tension in the Levant
Hizballah's deputy leader: Israel making up Scud reports
Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hizballah's deputy leader, refuses to confirm or deny reports that his organization received Scud missiles from Syria. In an interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Qassem said Hizballah is "satisfied" with its current position, and called the Scud reports an Israeli ploy (عربي) to distract attention from their own nuclear program.
http://www.themajlis.org/2010/04/15/kuwaiti-press-hizballah-admits-receiving-syrian-scuds
Tension in the Levant
Kuwaiti press: Hizballah admits receiving Syrian Scuds
The Jerusalem Post reports today that Hizballah admitted receiving Scud missiles from Syria, but insists the missiles are "old and unusable."
The sources added, "Our organization has many surface-to-surface missiles spread across all of Lebanon, in case Israel attacks the country again."
The Jerusalem Post's report is sourced to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai. The original report is available here (عربي); it's attributed to unnamed sources in Hizballah's military wing, who say the group only received a few old, decommissioned missiles. The sourcing is vague, though, and it's a Kuwaiti newspaper (often the Arabic media equivalent of supermarket tabloids).
This is the Al Rai Arabic url for the article
http://www.alraimedia.com/Alrai/Article.aspx?id=197337
Report / «noise about fireworks Scud media to embarrass Syria ... Worthless »
Sources «Hezbollah» for «opinion»: surface - atmosphere spread from south to north Vabaka ... Confuse the Israeli air force
Missile «Conqueror 110»
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| «Opinion» - Special |
Transformation of the report «opinion» from Washington, providing Syria «Hezbollah» rockets «Scud», Snowball inspired rolls on a large scale on the levels of diplomatic and military, that it expected to be the «ball scorching» in the next phase, based on the size of the Israeli comments that have been involved the political and military institutions, diplomatic, media, and Syria's swift to deny what it described as through its embassy in Washington called «false news of making Israel».
However, the circumstances of what has become known as the «crisis Scud» re and rapid development of conflict between Israel and «Hizbollah» Under minute preview after it had been less talk of «imminent war» Impact «more rare» February 25 gathered in Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al- Assad and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Secretary-General «Hezbollah» Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and considered at the time as a strategic development Israel understood its meaning in the context of «balance of deterrence» which further the prospects of war that was looming.
And reduces the «Hezbollah» The noise of rockets on Israeli «Scud». Sources involved in military affairs in the party's «opinion», said the noise Israel on missile «Scud» is only fireworks media for several reasons, noting that Israel is exploiting the opportunity is fully aware of «self short» Such excitement media that will not be as a result of But works of public opinion and the media to no avail. Noted the sources said Israel, which had talked about having resistance to a few hundred or a few thousand rockets «Light 110» not instigate a media uproar same made up for the rockets «Scud» old and worn out and withdrawn from service since a long time, pointing to «Hezbollah »Looking for the accuracy of injury and not for the size of the rocket and its destructiveness is not feasible.
And conducted relevant sources in military affairs in the «Hezbollah» comparison between the missile «Scud» and «Light 110 -» she's «opinion» that «the Scud appeared in 1957, a fuel powered liquid hinders the process of storage and release, at a time works Light 110 - solid fuel has been produced in the last year. As the Scud takes preparation for the launch after a training long by 45 to 60 minutes, while men need light 110, but less than 4 minutes at the hands of an expert », explaining that the error in the« Scud »about 5 kilometers while enjoying light precisely the injury does not exceed the error where only a few meters (5 to 10 meters), and this is what was referred to by Mr. Hassan Nasrallah, indirectly, when he unveiled the equation «port harbor and airport, the airport and the street in the street», something that can not «Scud» provided.
The sources noted that the advantage of «Scud» may be long-term injury, which ranged between 1000 and 1500 km, which do not need resistance, noting that «Light 110» a range of 250 km, the distance required for the wounded exact in all the land in occupied Palestine . The sources in the course of this comparison, the «Scud» slow start and movement, making it an easy target for missiles, Israeli objecting k «Hits» and «Patriot» and «Thad», while «light 110 is one of the missiles, rapid and winged and able to maneuver when they meet the target, to the extent 10 degrees, in addition to the length of «Scud is vulnerable light».
Sources believe that these leaks the U.S. will never result in any movement hostile Israeli could lead to war, but on the contrary, the Lebanese front - Syria - Israel is quiet, because Israel would not dare to access any adventure for several reasons. They found that this «din» About «Scud» nothing more than an attempt to embarrass Syria before the international community and send messages lined to President Bashar al-Assad, warning that if Israel launched a war against Syria, the «Hezbollah» will not hesitate to go to war because he realizes that he goal.
Sources close to the «Hezbollah», he had an understanding was reached in «the tripartite meeting,» which was held in Damascus between Assad and Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah «a common defense strategy to address jointly and severally for any future war with Israel. And that this common basis defensive, and did not mean to take the initiative to declare war, but that any aggression on Lebanon would be governed by the intervention of Syrian Arab Republic not inevitable, and that any attack on Syria makes Iran are obliged to implement the joint defense agreement between Damascus and Tehran, which practically means to enter Iran war ». Despite the conviction of non-readiness of Israel, the meeting in Damascus, who now have full Abjahosep will not start a war, but they will oppose any Israeli adventure according to the strategy agreed at the meeting between President Assad and Mr. Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah.
In the information for «opinion» sources close to the «tripartite meeting» which was hosted by 25 in Damascus last month that Syria, which did not comment, for example, the Israeli strike on its facility in Deir ez-Zor in the September 6, 2007 due to lack of readiness at the time, became in a completely different since it has finally responded and firmly on the Israeli provocation, on board and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem that Israeli cities will be under the range of its missiles in the event of exposure to his country.
Sources close to Syrian President Bashar Assad that the Syrian president is fully aware of the size of the losses that will hit Syria in the first strike that can be launched by Israel on the infrastructure, Syrian, pointing to arsenal destroyed in the «Hezbollah» and missiles of modern is «simple» as compared with the arsenal that has become owned by Syria. They noted that the July 2006 war between Israel and «Hezbollah» laid a new concept of modern combat has become a school based on the rocket is stronger than armored tank. The intensity and accuracy of the missiles will feature military concept in the next war, so that Syria can absorb a first strike even if the total cost of thousands of victims, to respond with devastating force on the inside of Israel. This means that the battle will move to a broader geographical area to be the theater of operations inside Israeli territory, just as it is inside Syrian territory.
These sources revealed that the Syrian forces introduced regular troops or similar work in the style of the work of the resistance, which proved to be effective against Israel and merit high in the war with it. Either in respect of the «Hezbollah», the sources close to him, said, «opinion» the party leadership is a war with Israel is inevitable, though timing is unknown now even from Israel, the same, because the recent speech by Mr. Nasrallah, who disclosed some of the military arsenal of the Party and the Syrian declaration of readiness to enter the war on the side of the party, imposed on Israel to reconsider its calculations, which postponed the war without cancel course.
The sources pointed out that as stated by Mr. Nasrallah is part of what has become the «Hezbollah» of force to deter sea, air and anti-tank and individuals, noting that the next battle with Israel fateful battle there for the parties, the forces of resistance and Israel alike. They pointed out that «Hezbollah» will not be initiated despite the fact that Israel is preparing for war conducted in this building of an airport in the Negev desert and the transfer of vital corporate information to the outside and the distribution of gas masks in anticipation of the possible use of chemical weapons in the next war. But Israel, according to sources close to the «Hezbollah», strapped in a bank goals, which explains the resumption of the revitalization of the clients in the Lebanese territory «It is assisted by Kambassarp U.S.», Israel needs to hit the command and focal points of resistance and warehouses military first strike During the war the next, information that is not owned until today, in addition to the resistance and the prudent alternatives developed plans for communications and strategic deployment stocks over the Lebanese territories and the granting of independence of the resistance groups in small geographical spots in the event of war.
The sources said that «Hezbollah» will pursue in the next war style totally different from what adopted in the war of 2006, as it will not be this time at the site of reaction, but will hold the lead in managing the standoff over the dropping strategy «secure borders» and the adoption of patience in responding to the gradual and flexible as a drain, which allows the Israelis and the ability to keep an open confrontation. Will not be able to Israel, according to sources close to the «Hezbollah», to prove its superiority combat, as is customary, as it was able party to «equation equal» in the fight and end the theory of making Lebanon a mere «theater» along the lines of what was happening In previous wars, beginning in 1978 until 2006, operations will be Fmsarh Israelis this time. The sources said that in 2006 prompted Israel to 700 aircraft to the field was carried out 200 sorties daily in the various missions at a time when the resistance missiles launched from the realm of geographically restricted boundaries of southern Lebanon, which is completely different now, when possible, the party's deployment of missiles along the geographic range of the South to the ends of the north Vabaka.
The sources pointed out that the missiles «ground to air», which is now owned «Hezbollah» will lead to confuse the Israeli air force in the management of battle, and will not return in a position to Israeli pilot as his mission in Lebanon as a «normal working day», as it will be forced to think for a moment of liftoff he might will not come back, because it has become possible to abort or family, something that impedes one of the main strengths that often boasted by Israel in its wars «flash» from the air.
And «Hezbollah», which does not diminish the prestige of the military arsenal and Israeli hegemony, knows a lot about the preparations of Tel Aviv, with evidence that the party reviewed the possible scenarios for the war and became ready for the confrontation that takes into account the work to strike the principle of «coming together of arms» adopted by Israel (from the sea Air and Land), and, consequently, it is fee based on the tactics «distraction arms», probably initiated by the terms of the outcome of the war in 2006.
In that war, the party managed to damage the warship Israeli Saar 5 - missile c. 802, which means that the Navy will be unable to play a vital role in the war. In the mainland, the party has strengthened its arsenal of missiles of the type «courant», «Miss», and «Tao» and will be able to block the movement of tanks and catch them.
The same sources said that Israel will surround itself in a war on Lebanon, saying that «Hezbollah» will be on the way «blockade blockade», adding: «If Israel closed the Rafik Hariri International Airport Hezbollah will close at Ben Gurion Airport, and if closed the port of Beirut, the party is close the ports of Haifa and Ashdod, and the land border will be theater of operations ».
If «the demarcation line» with Israel, the Lebanese-Syrian flammable, even if delayed, what will push Iran to participate in the next war? Sources that has been able to see the deliberations of the meeting of Damascus, she's «opinion» that Iran has promised that it would not hesitate to defend Syria and Lebanon in case of Israel on the use of non-conventional weapons, even in a limited form (such as grenades treated nuclear), and entry of confrontation would be through the use of non-conventional weapons and the same destructive capacity itself, revealing that it is easy to convert Iran's nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, fertilized, to be used for military defense to force balance in the next war. She spoke these sources that Iran regards the West, led by the United States, in the event of frustration economic, political and, consequently, is out of his involvement in any future war because of his failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will mean that the policeman in the Middle East ended and the region fend for itself.
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'Hizbullah has missile base in Syria'
05/28/2010 13:14
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Army chief: No Scud missiles in Lebanon
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF04/25/2010 04:32
In comments published in Lebanon’s Al-Nahar daily and communicated by Reuters, Kahwaji, who met earlier in the day with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said Scuds were far less mobile than Katyusha rockets and much less likely to be brought across the border undetected.
“The process of transporting them is not a game, it’s a very big operation... The rockets are 30 meters long, are carried on large vehicles, and need 40 minutes to prepare for launch, Kahwaji was quoted as saying. “I’m convinced there are no Scuds in Lebanon and talk about the issue is political.”
Gheit, who met with Kahwaji in Beirut, reportedly said later that “whoever knows about these rockets knows that these [allegations] are all laughable lies.”
Two weeks ago, Kuwait’s Al-Rai newspaper reported that Syria had transferred Scud ballistic missiles to Hizbullah. Israel subsequently issued a stern warning that it would consider attacking both Syrian and Lebanese targets in response to a Scud attack on its territory.
Several days ago, however, the chairwoman of the US Senate’s Intelligence Committee warned that there was a “high likelihood” that Hizbullah had acquired Scuds.
“The rockets and missiles in Lebanon are substantially increased and better technologically than they were, and this is a real point of danger for Israel,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California told Agence France-Press.
Minister denies Syria gave Hezbollah Scuds, asks 'why are arms allowed to Israel, forbidden to Arabs?'
Reuters
| Published: | 05.23.10, 23:05 / Israel News |
Citing Israeli occupation of Arab land and the technical state of war between Syria and Israel, Moualem added, "Israel is beating the drum of war. In the absence of real peace every thing is possible."
Regarding Israeli and US accusations that Syria was sending long-range Scud missiles to Hezbollah, he said Damascus only gives the group political backing and that Israel may be using the accusation as a pretext for a military strike.
"A Scud missile is as big as this room. How could it be hidden and smuggled with Israeli planes and satellites all over the region?" Moualem asked, adding that cumbersome Scuds were not suited to Hezbollah's guerrilla tactics.
Hezbollah's weapons have been a focus of Western diplomacy toward Syria in the last several months. US Senator John Kerry, who had raised the issue with President Bashar al-Assad last month, met Assad again in the Syrian capital on Saturday.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also met Assad earlier. France had led Western moves to rehabilitate Syria, but Kouchner said on May 2 that Hezbollah's array of weapons made the situation "dangerous" and that France wants Syria to "guarantee the security" of the Syrian-Lebanese border.
The United States has avoided giving a view on whether the Scud transfer happened, but a US official said President Barack Obama is likely to raise concerns about Syria arming Hezbollah when he meets Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Monday.
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