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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ratlines revealed: moving missiles from Iran/Syria to Hizb'allah in Lebanon
2010-10-27
Three separate Hezbollah units are responsible for moving rockets from Syria to Lebanon and deploying them at various sites operated by the group, the French daily Le Figaro reported Monday.

Over the past year, international media outlets have published numerous reports on the upgrading of Hezbollah's high-trajectory missile capabilities and the increasing threat they pose against Israeli population centers. So far, Kuwaiti newspapers have been publishing most of these reports, joined now by a French paper quoting government sources in Paris.

In its detailed report on Hezbollah's missile and rocket arrays, Le Figaro described a dramatic event that occurred in January: "A warning signal flashed on American radar screens. The signal on the screen indicated preparations to move 26 M-600 rockets from Damascus to the Syria-Lebanon border. The rocket, manufactured in Syria, with a range of about 250 kilometers, were to have been given to Hezbollah in Lebanon, making strikes possible deep in Israeli territory."
Israel has outside sources of information beyond the Turkish secret service, which has now formally broken ties with Mossad, following similar actions by the Turkish government. (See here for details.)
I'll just guess that Mossad still has a number of 'informal' ways of getting information from the Turks.

Beyond that, there is a simple way to make the movement of missiles into Lebanon irrelevant: Israel simply needs to state publicly that if a single missile is launched from Lebanon into Israel, it will be considered to be an act of war by Syria, to which Israel will respond appropriately.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Yokay, so we find that ISRAEL is being surrounded by NUCLEARIZING, MOSTLY ANTI-ISRAEL STATES + MILTERR GROUPS.

ARAB-MUSLIM MIL HISTORY > strongly indciates or infers that, for the time being, ISRAEL'S ENEMIES AS A CLASS WILL NOT MIL ATTACK ISRAEL ["EN MASSE"?] UNTIL SOME KIND OF MAJOR GEOPOL EVENT(S) OUTSIDE THE ME OCCURS ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD.

IOW, ISRAEL IS A "SECOND/TERTIARY" FRONT - the question becomes what is the abovementioned
"major geopol event" and where to occur?

E.g. MILITANT THREAT TO ASIA, i.e. RUSSIA + CHINA + INDJUH [India], NATO-EU?; + MILITANT REGIONAL, GLOBAL NUCLEAR THREAT [Nukes-WMDS =
STRATEGIC WEAPONS, MILTECHS].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-10-27 19:58  

#1  Yes, every missile should be considered from Syria, and MRLS should be the reply to the location the missle comes from.
Posted by: Uleatch Dribble8106   2010-10-27 14:55  

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