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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Le Figaro: Hizbullah Moving Arsenal from Syria to Lebanon
2011-06-26
[An Nahar] Hizbullah is moving its arsenal from Syria over fears that the anti-Assad demonstrations would lead to regime change, a Western expert closely following up Iranian-Syrian ties told the French daily Le Figaro on Saturday.

The expert confirmed that Western intelligence had monitored the movement of trucks from the Syrian border to eastern Leb's Bekaa valley.

The trucks are allegedly transporting Iranian-made Zelzal, Fajr 3 and Fajr 4 rockets that the Shiite party had amassed in depots in Syria.
Be a real shame if a truck had a spectacular kaboom accident while on the road. Pro'ly set off all the trucks around it. Might close the road for quite a while. Too bad Mossad would never, ever do such a thing...
Le Figaro said that Hizbullah's logistics units based in Syria were helping the party move its arsenal. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
it said that Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
and Tehran have lately doubted that the transfer of arms to Hizbullah has been monitored by U.S. and Israeli satellites.

In an effort to confront the surveillance, Syrian intelligence units and Iran's al-Quds Force have established a central command at the Damascus airport, Le Figaro added.
I'm just guessing that the IAF has the coordinates nailed down to within a centimeter in any direction...
Posted by:Fred

#4  By extension, the various Paleo Militant Groups, etal. will also be "Nuclear" as weell their non-Sttae/NGO MilTerr comrades, MUSLIM OR NOT?, across the Region + around the World.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-26 19:17  

#3  This Artic is so-o-o-o 2010...

On a larger scale, the Hezzies Hizzies Huzzies Hazzies, etc. smell Israel's blood in the water, + its no longer just the Paleo Bad Boyz in the West Bank + Gaza-Strip.

IMO MORESO WID THE ADVENT OF THE JASMINE-LED [proto]"CALIPHATE", WHICH WILL BE NUCLEAR ONCE INTEGRATED.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-26 19:14  

#2  Somehow the Damascus airport central command will prevent Israeli and American electronic surveillance of cell phone and Internet traffic, and American satellites and Israeli UAVs watching where the trucks come from and go to. I wonder if Hizb'allah supplies will end up near Saddam Hussein's WMDs, parked beneath the Bekaa Valley back in 2003...
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-06-26 12:34  

#1  I think more and more, the bottom line is that Assad no longer "rules", but is just the most powerful warlord with a mercenary army and secret police that terrorize the population.

It lasts only so long as it is expensively subsidized, and has logistics provided by someone with deep pockets, which is just a money pit that achieves nothing. Even the Iranian rank and file are getting upset with wasting money on Assad when things at home are very tight.

Hezbollah is wise to bug out, but it means that they either seize power in Lebanon over all the other factions, or they are next on the chopping block.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-06-26 08:55  

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