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Palestinian group shoots up Syrian-Lebanese border
A Lebanese civilian army technician was shot dead Tuesday night while surveying the Lebanese-Syrian border in the eastern Beqaa Valley. The shots came from the Syrian side of the border, shortly before the UN Security Council convened in New York on the UN Mehlis report on the murder of Lebanese ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri. DEBKAfileâs military sources report they were fired from a forward position of Ahmed Jibrilâs Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine â General Command, revealing for the first time the presence of Palestinian terrorist positions along the Syrian-Lebanese frontier. In Beirut, a security official said the shots came from a position used by a Syrian-backed Palestinian group firing from Syria. DEBKAfile first exposed the transfer by the PFLP-GC of hundreds of armed men from Syria to Lebanon in advance of the Mehlis reportâs publication. In his presentation to the Security Council Tuesday UN investigator Detlev Mehlis expressed a wish to interview Jibril, his son Faras and other Damascus-based members of his organization on their involvement in preparing the Hariri assassination. The interim report cites the Palestinian group, financed from Iran, as abetting the assassins with logistical support such as surveillance, the securing of the crime scene, weapons, explosives and cell phones which were critical elements in the murder plot. Posted by: Steve 2005-10-26 |
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