Under cover of its four-day military exercise starting Friday, Nov. 18, Iran is reported exclusively byDEBKAfile to be transferring Palestinian terrorist units into Syria after training them at IRGC Al Qods facilities for cross-border raids into the West Bank and Israel. The capture of Muammar Qaddafi's son Saif al Islam, 39, outside Obari near the southern desert town of Sabha is far from being the last chapter of the ex-ruler's family role in the struggle to control of Libya. The Zintan militia (in league with Misurata) is holding him until demands for government representation are met. Much is still unknown about how he was caught. His "capture" may be part of a deal he struck to allot the militias funds from the Qaddafi fortune to support their ambitions. Exhaustive investigations into the deadly explosion of the Sejil-2 ballistic missile at the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Alghadir base last Saturday, Nov. 12 point increasingly to a technical fault caused by the computer system controlling the missile and not the missile itself. The head of Iran's ballistic missile program Maj. Gen. Hassan Moghaddam was among the 36 officers killed in the blast. DEBKAfile: The IRGC is investigating the possible Stuxnet virus infection of this computer system as the cause of the explosion.
Iran and Syria are hitting back for the rebel Free Syrian Army-FSA's armed offensive on military installations and commands centers. Bashar Assad's cousin Rami Makhlouf warned last May: "Without stability in Syria, there will be no stability in Israel."
DEBKAfile Special Report
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Sunday, 20 November 2011
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 20, 2011, 8:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qods trains Palestinians in anti-tank arms
Saif al Islam capture: Bargaining chip in Libyan power struggle
November 19, 2011, 6:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saif al-Islam aboard a plane to Zintan
Suspicion in Iran that Stuxnet caused Revolutionary Guards base explosions
November 18, 2011, 2:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's Sejil 2 ballistic missile.
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