Several days after a Hezbollah truck carrying ammunition overturned near Beirut, killing two people and sparking festivities with residents of a local Christian town, security sources were reportedly estimating that the vehicle had been transporting anti-tank missiles sent from Iran.
The violence erupted
like lava from a volcano on Wednesday evening after the accident in the town of Kahale, located in the mountains east of the Lebanese capital, on the road linking it to the Bekaa Valley bordering Syria.Kahale mayor Abboud Abi Khalil has told AFP that residents surrounded the truck demanding to know what was inside before Hezbollah members escorting it opened fire and killed one of them.
The powerful Iran-backed Shiite terror group said one of its members, Ahmad Ali Kassas, was shot in ensuing festivities and later died of his wounds.
The Lebanese army said Thursday that it had seized munitions from the overturned truck, adding that "the cargo of the truck has been transported to a military center, and an investigation has been opened by the competent judicial authorities."
On Saturday, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported that security officials from an unidentified Middle Eastern country were estimating that the cargo was Iranian anti-tank missiles, sent by the Islamic Theocratic
Republicto its Lebanese proxy terror group.
The report noted that the weapons had been transported "in a completely civilian terrain and in a dangerous manner," and that the incident had caused "embarrassment" for Hezbollah, which has tried to downplay the incident.
Kan added that the security sources said the attempted arms smuggling was orchestrated by Hezbollah’s 4400 unit,
| ... Hezbollah’s Unit 4400 and the Quds Force Unit 190 are responsible for the logistics of storing Iranian armament in Syria — and clearly Unit 4400 is in charge of the same in Lebanon... |
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
via Syria.
Hezbollah is the only Lebanese faction that kept its weapons after the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. It is considered a terrorist organization by many Western governments.
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