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French newspaper uncovers routes Syria and Iran use to ship missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon
Haaretz ^
Posted on 10/27/2010 7:15:00 AM PDT by jhpigott
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 February, according to reports from Lebanon, some 40 Israeli fighter jets flew low one night over the Syrian border, and the Arab press was rife with various accounts of an Israeli move to halt the smuggling of the missiles.
The abundance of recent reports about Hezbollah is not accidental. It seems that Western intelligence agencies are pursuing a number of goals: to warn against Hezbollah's developing capabilities, a veiled threat against Syria so it will limit its involvement in weapons smuggling, and the preparation of international groundwork in case Israel decides to act against the weapons smuggling or the rocket array itself.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; hezbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; lefigaro; syria; waronterror
Haaretz had a follow up article today on that French Defense Ministry report from yesterday about Syrian/Iranian efforts to supply arms to Hezbollah. What is interesting is the specificity of the leak of information and suggestion that the release of this intel is not by accident and could be signaling impending Israeli action against Hezbollah and perhaps even Syria.
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quick, somebody tell the UN!!!
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Quick, Algerians in France. Burn down the newspaper!
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