So, what sort of ugrades are happening in Lebanon? Why peace loving Hezbollah is expanding its naval capabilities.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that three weeks before Hizballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speedboats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod Mediterranean ports and raid its coastal oil installations.
The speedboats were tailor-made for Hizballah by Iranian Revolutionary Guards shipyards at Bandar Abbas as the only marine terror fleet operating in Mediterranean waters. Our military sources report the boats are capable of carrying chemical, biological and radiological weapons systems.
They were delivered in mid-April by an Iranian freighter at the Syrian port of Latakia and trucked to Naimah port south of Beirut. There they were hidden in the subterranean hangars belonging to Ahmed Jibril, head of the Palestinian Liberation Front-General Command. Today, the PLF-GC is financed and directed by the Revolutionary Guards. The hangars were constructed in the seventies by East Germany engineers with a protected Mediterranean anchorage and made virtually impenetrable by sea or air.
Why does this sound like the prelude to the 1967 war?
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2 comments:
Don:
On April 8, 2008, STRATFOR posted a rather interesting article about the 'strange activity' swirling around Lebanon/Syria and the US/Israeli response.
At that time, STRAFOR could not give a solid reason for the activity other than something 'ominous' was about to happen. Your article would appear to connect the dots and we now know what the movements were about. What the West seems confused about (and concerns me most) is a simple question: are the Iranians employing Hezbollah as a surrogate to open another front in the Islamic war?
So you can stop worrying about TEOLAWKI. I believe the answer to the above question is--whether we want to acknowledge it or not--we are actively in WW3 (or 4 since you are a ColdWarrior like me) and given the nonchalant way we have been fighting it, our nation may not survive this one.
Thank you for your comment. It's a good point to ponder.
I need to point out, though, that the post was written by my blogging colleague and good friend, Rabbi Daniel Jackson of Israel.
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