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2011-11-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Blast at Hezbollah munitions warehouse
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Posted by Durnham Freebody 2011-11-23 05:21|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 The blast occurred in an area that is under UN control. According to UN Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah is forbidden from storing arms in this region. A UNIFIL team is expected to launch an investigation into the explosion.



UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon told The Daily Star that they heard about the explosion on the news. "We have no information at the moment. We are checking this report," UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti was quoted as saying.

clueless and hostages
Posted by Frank G 2011-11-23 07:37||   2011-11-23 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 ...These guys really need to start checking their tech data. :D

Popcorn, anyone?

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-11-23 09:30||   2011-11-23 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The leaders of UNIFIL command had no comment.
Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-11-23 09:37||   2011-11-23 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 New IDF universal munitions remote control? Beep beep BEEP Zzzzzt!
Posted by M. Murcek 2011-11-23 09:38||   2011-11-23 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 here is the naharnet version

and here is the daily star version

neither has any info on the actual size of the blast or the exact location

both verify that neither the Lebanese Army nor the UN forces are being allowed to investigate the blast
Posted by Lord Garth 2011-11-23 10:47||   2011-11-23 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I would be a classic intelligence operation for Israel to sneak in a bit of compromised munitions.

In past it was done with modifying a chemical formula, say adding a little bit too much nitroglycerine to dynamite so that after a short time it starts to leak, the liquid nitro forming very unstable crystals.

But today, just add a bullet sized electronic timer set for six months to a year to liquid explosives, as they are poured into artillery rounds to harden. Things like that.

Then again, Hezbollah probably uses Soviet style munitions storage, which is not the greatest in the world.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-23 11:17||   2011-11-23 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 American blogger Richard Silverstein claimed Israel was behind the explosion. Quoting an Israeli official with "considerable military experience," the blogger wrote "IDF military intelligence (Aman) has out foxed Hezbollah by deliberately crash-landing a booby-trapped Trojan Horse drone in southern Lebanon.



"For over a year, Hezbollah has been attempting to discover how to jam the ground signals commanding the drone so as to disable them in flight. When it discovered the downed craft, its operatives must’ve crowed that they’d finally discovered the key to success. This bit of hubris is how Aman drew Hezbollah into its net. Its soldiers dutifully collected the imagined intelligence trophy and brought it to a large weapons depot it controlled in the area. Once inside the arms cache, Aman detonated the drone causing a massive explosion," Silverstein claimed.
Posted by Durnham Freebody 2011-11-23 11:42||   2011-11-23 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 
Then again, Hezbollah probably uses Soviet style munitions storage, which is not the greatest in the world.


That may be their doctrine. That may be their training.

How many of the grunts moving the stuff around have been through the training? Have read the documentation? Can read?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-11-23 14:47||   2011-11-23 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 How many of the grunts moving the stuff around have been through the training? Have read the documentation? Can read?

There is a Soviet era story, possibly apocryphal, of a Soviet Air Force base commander where Syrian/Egyptian pilots were trained. According to the story, every time he'd get drunk (that being Russia 2 - 3 times a week) he'd write a request for a transfer---to a base specializing in training dogs for border patrol.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-23 16:10||   2011-11-23 16:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Play with fire...
Posted by Iblis 2011-11-23 16:53||   2011-11-23 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 First Iran, now this; is there anyplace the juices can't reach?
Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-11-23 19:28||   2011-11-23 19:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Pro'lly just a faulty batch of water level sensors.
Posted by SteveS 2011-11-23 20:09||   2011-11-23 20:09|| Front Page Top

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