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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Iranian Trainers in Gaza
2007-04-26
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- The Israeli military has located Iranian trainers in the Gaza Strip. Israeli military sources said Teheran has sent more than a dozen Iranians to train Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. The sources said virtually all of the Iranians were of Palestinian origin and granted Iranian citizenship.
So they're deniable....and expendable.
"These were Palestinians trained first by Hizbullah in Lebanon and then in Iran," a military source said. "Many of these people provided training to Palestinians in Iran and were then sent to the Gaza Strip over the last 18 months."

The source said the Iranians were helping Palestinian factions in the development of weapons and combat techniques. The Iranians were also responsible for selecting Palestinians for intensive training in Iran.
Posted by:Steve

#5  The one and only message that needs to be sent is to Iran. Anything less is wholly inadequate. Their meddling will not cease until a forcible stop is put to it. America alone has the ability to do this in a convincing fashion. In light of how badly Iranian intervention continues to compromise all of our efforts in the Middle East, neutralizing Iran is an absolute no-brainer. DO IT NOW. Put an end to this miserable death of a thousand paper cuts.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-26 14:47  

#4  You mistake proficiency in combat with dealing with Arab "civilians" in the way they can understand, OldPat.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-04-26 14:04  

#3  Who'll send trainers, on not being afraid of getting one's hands a bit dirty, to IDF?
I think the IDF can train itself, grom. They've been doing a pretty da$$$$ good job of it since about 1945, IIRC.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-04-26 12:55  

#2  Who'll send trainers, on not being afraid of getting one's hands a bit dirty, to IDF?
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-04-26 10:35  

#1  But this is impossible. Orcs of the White Hand always start skirmishing when they encounter Orcs of the Lidless Eye.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-04-26 08:57  

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