Time: Iran managing Hezbollah on the ground in Lebanon
posted at 8:32 pm on November 24, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Quite a scoop. Next thing you know they’ll be blaming Syria for Pierre Gemayel’s assassination.
Iran is smuggling weapons through Syria to re-arm Lebanese allies Hizballah, despite renewed efforts by United Nations peacekeepers and the Lebanese army to seal off the mountain borders with Syria in the wake of last summer’s war between the Shi’ite militia and Israel, according to reports by Saudi and Israeli intelligence sources that have been confirmed by western diplomats in Beirut…
Over the past three months, according to a knowledgeable Saudi source, Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers have been operating out of a military base on the outskirts of Damascus. The Iranian government has dispatched shipments of small arms and what appear to be missile components to this military base, according to the source. From the secret base, weapons have been shipped by truck across the border into Lebanon.
How aggressive are they? Diplomats in Beirut tell Time they believe Hezbollah has almost fully replenished its pre-war inventory of 20,000 rockets, which jibes with what Israeli intelligence is hearing. But here’s the real bombshell, assuming it’s true:
Moreover, Obaid says, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) are using the Iranian embassies in Damascus and Beirut as command and control centers — an allegation that was also confirmed to TIME by Israeli military sources. Obaid says there appear to be direct communications links between the Iranians and Hizballah, via Hizballah officers working inside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, and Iranian officers in the field with Hizballah fighters; in the past, some Middle East analysts have rejected the popular notion that Hizballah takes direct orders from Iran.
That’s not the first time Nasrallah has been linked to the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Hezbollah says it hopes to bring down the Lebanese government within the next month.
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SO will the West have the guts to target both embassies and mosques as enemy strongholds?
To hell with world opinion,let’s get this job done.
bbz123 on November 24, 2006 at 8:36 PM
From the Telegraph link:
A truly special brand of psychosis.
JammieWearingFool on November 24, 2006 at 8:38 PM
Jammie, that’s because the weak minded are easily influenced:
“Jews did 9/11!”
“Bush did 9/11!”
Anyway, why aren’t WE managing the Iranian opposition in Tehran?
Tony737 on November 24, 2006 at 8:57 PM
Cuz the US is the cause of all the problems in the world, remember? Geesh.
lorien1973 on November 24, 2006 at 9:11 PM
I am not impressed by the intel gathering. As we used to say no shit sherlock! Kick their ass and get it friggin over with. Damn!!
sonnyspats1 on November 24, 2006 at 9:15 PM
The geniuses at Time have, in late November, figured out what intelligent people have know since long, long ago.
The lefty guys and lefty gals at Time are behind the curve again. Big surprise. Some third-tier guy must have burped out enough bits and pieces that even those compromised morons at that worthless rag have stumbled on Obvious Truths
Next week they’ll go back to cover stories on a new wonder diet or brand new disease we’re all about to die from
Janos Hunyadi on November 24, 2006 at 10:13 PM
Do they just make this stuff up? I’m wondering since commander on the ground (I believe it was French) were quoted recently as saying it wasnt thier job and they hadnt been asked to montitor the border for weapons shipments.
Resolute on November 24, 2006 at 10:38 PM
OT,but someone at Fox is making fun
http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,1266,00.html#14_440
Blair playing catch with a red ball,they put up the pic that totally makes hin look like a clown
bbz123 on November 24, 2006 at 11:24 PM
No? Really? For really? You’re not pulling my leg are you? Seriously? No Way? . . .
Ok, so how long to you think it’ll take people to realize that Iran is also orchestrating the troubles in Iraq, and yes, in more instances than Al Quieda.
- The Cat
MirCat on November 24, 2006 at 11:28 PM
The Iranians and Syria are helping the Bozos to rearm….
…and, in related news, Barbara Streisand voted Democrat, Madonna has lost her virginity, Michael Moore won’t be sending George Bush a Christmas card, Sigfried and Roy are gay, and you couldn’t drive a beading needle up Nancy Pelosi’s butt with a 9-pound sledge.
That about covers it. Updates on President Lincoln’s condition and results of the Dewey-Truman race tomorrow.
Puritan1648 on November 25, 2006 at 12:06 AM
Thank God the United Nations peacekeepers are there to slow the flow of arms… This is one reason why I let my subscription lapse a long time ago.
Scotsman on November 25, 2006 at 12:39 AM
No. Go to “Plan B.” I don’t know what “Plan B” is, exactly, but it must contain the following elements:
1. No
non-uniformed combatantscivilians may be harmed.2. No American or Israeli interests may be advanced by the action.
3. There can be no blatant acts of imperialism (or anything that a disgruntled third worlder could construe as imperialism)
4. Remember, none of this would have happened if not for American policy during the Middle Ages.
If you can devise a plan to save the Middle East that conforms to these guide lines, then go for it.
Coyote D. on November 25, 2006 at 12:55 AM
Red nose Blair
That is a great picture of PM Blair. I bet the lefties will go on about how Fox is demeaning him on purpose, or did they do it to get the left to feel sympathy for him now that he is in trouble at home…. Darn it, that Rove is just too smart for me.
Gwillie on November 25, 2006 at 2:48 AM
Anyone want to take any bets that some of the new anti-aircraft and other weapons Putin is selling Iran are going to make their way into Hezbully hands inside of Lebanon?
LegendHasIt on November 25, 2006 at 3:04 AM
I like the “Bozo” reference, except these f***ers ain’t “clowning around.”
Still, great post. I laughed ’til my eyes got all teary. The Pelosi bit… Indescribably hilarious…horrible mental image though.
hillbillyjim on November 25, 2006 at 7:11 AM
Lorien, oh yeah, I forgot, DUH! hehehe
We should (and prolly do) have agents on the ground in Iran. Checkin’ out the competition and opposition.
Puritan, you forgot “Flyers win the Stanley Cup!” … (1976)
Tony737 on November 25, 2006 at 8:40 AM
Only because all of the mosques are filled and posting No Vacancy signs, due to an overload of Hezbollah fighters and associated armaments.
A couple of points.
When will our State Department come to it’s senses and realize that Putin and all the other Ruskie commies are not, and never will be our friends or allies? (Wake up W., who looked in Putin’s eyes and saw a good man, *gag* *puke*).
And let’s do the math on Putin selling sophisticated military hardware to the Iranians (fits nicely with the proposed UN sanctions, heh?)
1. Iran trains muslim terrorists, finances their operations, supplies them with weapons.
2. Muslim terrorists kill hundreds of civilians in Chechnya, Russia, including school children.
3. Putin sells $700,000,000 worth of military hardware to Iran.
Why not just save some time and put a gun to your head, Mr. Putin? Either this commie’s dumber than the editorial board at the New York Times, or he’s decided his chances for survival are better if he covertly joins the axis of evil. Then again it could be all about the money, and how much Putin could stash away in his private coffers.
There’s no upside here folks. We’d better keep an eye on the Ruskies and the Chicoms and their ongoing relationships with the islamofascists in the Middle East. I’m quite confident there are a handful of Russians leftover from the cold war who would still like to see a nuclear weapon make it’s way to our homeland.
Those pesky, bulky, multiple warhead ICBMs are so easily tracked by satellites nowadays, but pick-up trucks crossing our Mexican border are quite stealthy. Same result, different delivery system, no fingerprints.
I don’t like the chess moves I’m seeing lately.
fogw on November 25, 2006 at 10:22 AM
…sorry…still mystified where hockey’s concerned…still don’t get that whole “Wayne Gretzky” thing….
Puritan1648 on November 25, 2006 at 11:28 PM
…sorry about the Pelosi thing…does…er…fit, doesn’t it….
I like calling ‘em the Bozos not because they’re funny, because you’re right…they’re serious…*DEADLY* serious, in every possible way. They’re just so stuck on themselves, and on their own “mandate” to save the world from the evils of Zionism…and toilet paper….
So, I like to laugh at ‘em. They’re the Judean People’s Front Crack Suicide Squad made flesh.
Ridicule the self-elected!
Puritan1648 on November 25, 2006 at 11:31 PM
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