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| High military tension over Iranian presence; on strategic Lebanese peak | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 15 2008, 12:47 PM (144 Views) | |
| Israeli | Jul 15 2008, 12:47 PM Post #1 |
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High military tension over Iranian presence on strategic Lebanese peak DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 14, 2008, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Israel has placed its military and air forces on its northern borders on high alert after Iran and Syria ignored Jerusalem’s warning, relayed to Washington, that the continued presence of Iranian, Syrian and Hizballah officers on the strategic Lebanese Sannine peak may spark a military clash. Monday, July 14, two days ahead of the prisoner swap with Hizballah, Israel’s army spokesmen disclosed that Iranian officers had assumed command of Hizballah’s fighting units. Our military sources report that the disclosure, which further fueled the cross-border tension, referred to the Iranian officers in command of Hizballah teams atop the 7,800-foot Mt. Sannine peak, whence they can monitor and menace US Sixth Fleet movements in the eastern Mediterranean and Israeli Air Force flights. Iranian officers have also been attached to Hizballah’s anti-air, surface, and shore-to-ship missile units across Lebanon. All Israel’s military, police and security contingents are also on the ready in case of trouble flaring immediately after Israel and Hizballah exchange prisoners Wednesday. They estimate that once the exchange is out of the way, Hizballah will unleash a cross-border assault and terrorist action inside Israel, its promised revenge for the killing of their military commander Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus last February for which they blame Israel. Israel’s restraint against Hamas’ missiles campaign from Gaza, despite repeated threats, has left Hizballah and Tehran unmoved by its warning on Lebanon. The electrical vibes on the Israel-Lebanese border have not reached Paris or impacted President Nicolas Sarkozy’s drive, encouraged by the Bush administration, to end Bashar Assad’s international isolation and so cut him away from his alliance with Iran and ties with Hizballah. The very opposite process is racing fast forward in the Middle East. In Lebanon, Syria and Iran are operating in close sync to carve Lebanon up between them and seize strategic locations - fully exploiting the willful blindness of Paris and Washington. http://debka.com/headline.php?hid=5434 |
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| Israeli | Jul 15 2008, 12:52 PM Post #2 |
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This isn't a joke either. There is a serious alert here over this. Hizbulah could take advantage in fomenting some sort of altercation and inflaming the region. |
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| Shershalom | Jul 15 2008, 02:02 PM Post #3 |
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Israeli ~ Are you and your husband seeing / hearing of call-ups, movement in the land? If you can't share here, that's ok. Understand. Will be keeping you all bathed in prayer. B'Yeshua Meshicaynu, Sherry    |
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SherShalom "Blessed is HE that comes in the NAME of the LORD." MATTHEW 23:39 | |
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| Wil | Jul 15 2008, 02:22 PM Post #4 |
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Mainstream news report on the threat: IDF Prepares for Possible Double-Cross by Hizbullah on Wednesday by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) The IDF is preparing for a possible attack by Hizbullah terrorists, once the prisoner swap for kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev is completed and arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar is safely returned to Lebanon on Wednesday. According to the Associated Press, the military is beefing up its forces along the northern border, a fact not widely publicized until now. Officials quoted by the news agency on condition of anonymity said that Israel is on alert for a retaliatory strike in revenge for the assassination of the terrorist organization's second-in-command, Imad Mughniyeh, in February. Hizbullah still blames Israel for the killing, despite various theories that other Arab entities may have been responsible for the strike. The Israel Prison Service issued a statement Monday afternoon saying that Israel will release "four illegal Lebanese fighters" on Wednesday, along with Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar, whose infiltration and attack on Nahariya in 1979 was not mentioned. The four "fighters" were captured by the IDF during the 2006 Second Lebanon War against the terrorist organization. The Lebanese Army was not actively involved in the war. Kuntar and the four other live terrorists will be traded for Goldwasser and Regev, both of whom are believed to be dead. In addition, the bodies of some 190 terrorists have been exhumed from a northern cemetery in preparation for a swap in return for remains of IDF soldiers who were killed on the field during the war. Al Jazeera Offers A View of the Hizbullah War Tunnels The Arabic Al Jazeera satellite television news network has given its viewers an inside look at the tunnels used by Hizbullah guerrillas during the war, which the network called a military failure for Israel. The video clips revealed that the tunnels were equipped with showers, kitchens and "were planned like a house," according to the program's anchorman, Ghassan Bin Jiddu. One clip showed a restroom with a water tank and a fan for ventilation. Bin Jiddu explained that it took eight months to a year to complete the construction of one tunnel. Hizbullah honeycombed Southern Lebanon with such tunnels in the years following Israel's 2000 withdrawal from the security buffer zone it had previously maintained in the region, ordered by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126836 |
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| Israeli | Jul 15 2008, 03:32 PM Post #5 |
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Shershalom, Can't find where I read it, but all of Rosh Hanikra at the west most border with Lebanon is closed and cordoned off and taken over by the military. We plan to go to Naharia tomorrow morning as we usually do for a beach speed walk, and see what we can from that vantage point. There has been alot of air activity. |
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