Le Figaro revealed that Hezbollah has 3000 fighters and a reserve force of 10,000. In addition to an effective weapons smuggling system, Hezbollah has also enhanced its ability to move money from Iran and Syria into Lebanon. Le Figaro’s information comes from a secret intelligence report it received. The report describes the precise smuggling routes and the quantities of missiles Hezbollah is armed with. The report also reveals that U.S. satellite radar has spotted 26 M-6002 missiles, with a range of 250 km, in the area between Damascus and Syria’s border with Lebanon.
The weapons transport system, the report unveils, is divided into three units: Unit 108 is responsible for transferring missiles (including M-6002s), weapons, and ammunition from its main base near the Damascus airport to Hezbollah bases on the Lebanese-Syrian border. Unit 108 has permanent supply and reserve depots. The former are located near the Damascus airport and the latter, in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Homs, and Tartus. Unit 112 transports the weapons from the border areas with Syria, to Hezbollah bases in Lebanon. The transfer takes place at the end of the month, exploiting electrical power outages, which allows Hezbollah to avoid having their vehicle license plates registered.
Unit 100 deals with deployment and training. The men in this unit transfer Iranian and Syrian experts between Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. This unit recently transferred Hezbollah fighters who were trained in Iran to use Fatah 110 missiles with a range of 150 km.
Hezbollah has deployed its missiles north of the Litani River in underground bunkers. It has also dug tunnels along the Lebanese-Syrian border to enable Hezbollah fighters to escape or be resupplied in case of a war with Israel. Iranian experts have constructed a central communications network which extends from Hezbollah’s South Beirut headquarters to Hezbollah strongholds in Southern Lebanon along the border of Israel. Arms and ammunitions have been stored in mosques, schools, and shops in close proximity to the Israeli border.
According to the same Le Figaro report, Hezbollah has a standing force of six brigades and a naval component designated as Naval Unit 87, which is trained in diving and sabotage missions.
On April 7, 2007, The New York Times reported that the “intelligence community in Washington as having said that Hezbollah and Al Qaeda, despite their differences, have cooperated in the past and continue to cooperate on jihad-related activities against the United States and its interests at home and abroad.” But, whereas al-Qaeda’s power has been checked by U.S. forces, Hezbollah’s has not. Despite the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 (which killed 241 U.S. Marines and wounded sixty others), the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut that same year, playing a role in the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 in Beirut, and the murder of a U.S. Navy diver, the U.S. has never attacked Hezbollah bases as they have al-Qaeda bases.
Hezbollah has a worldwide network of cells – including some inside the US – that raise vast sums of money. These cells are prepared to attack U.S. targets once ordered. And, unlike al-Qaeda, it has powerful governments as its allies and, as mentioned above, controls an entire country. Hezbollah’s capacity to inflict painful blows upon the U.S. has been clearly demonstrated, yet, the Obama administration has chosen to appease this radical Shiite terrorist organization and its sponsors in Iran and Syria rather than confront it. It is high time for the Obama administration’s national security services to consider Hezbollah a major threat to the U.S. and a priority target — not only as a way to prevent future terrorism on America and undercut Iranian influence, but as a necessary step to restore democracy in Lebanon and foster an Israeli-Lebanese peace.
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Too bad GWB and Condi “appeaser” Rice during the 2006 Second Lebanese War worked behind the scenes with the duplicitous French to encourage Israel’s leftwing Prime Minister Olmert to agree to the ceasefire and UNSCR 1701, which anyone with at least half a brain new beforehand was a complete and utter joke. Instead, both those losers behind the scenes should have encouraged Prime Minister Olmert to take advantage of the golden opportunity to eradicate Hezbollah once and for all and at the same time hand Iran and Syria a strategic defeat. Hell, they should have offered financial enticements to help motivate Israeli Prime Minister Olmert. Indeed, it was another ignominious failure of the GWB administration.
Unfortunately, Hezbollah has learned from its lessons and today is exponentially a far greater threat than it was in 2006. Hence, the next war, which is imminent, will make the 2006 Second Lebanese War look like a picnic in the park thanks to the incompetence of GWB, Condi “appeaser” Rice, and Olmert.
i think you are missihformed if the war continued at that time israel would have lost its millitary and army in lebanon,if you remembered the last days of the war was the highest casulties for the israelis further i think people worked behind the scenes was olmert and his defense minister
Lebanon, once the "Paris" of the MIddle East is now the Cambodia (under Pol Pot) of the Middle East.
there is no peace with rats like hezbollah the ultimate joke would for the jews to think that muslims would make peace with jews the sad part is that many jews think that peace can be made.
Your are dead right Tanstaafl, Lebanon, with Hezbollah running the show is more like Cambodia under Pol Pot.
It must be embarrassing to the Lebanese to know that they are under military/thug /terrorist rule and not the democracy they initially voted for.
Hezbollah have made a farce of the entire Lebanese political system and its people.
Once these maggots are gone then Lebanon can revert to the Paris of the Middle East.
I have a Dream… My dream was of 2 people were elected to Lead United States through those tough times.
Sarah Palin and Allen West. Those 2 people have the heart , wisdom and courage to lead.
Wise word from a black African who love united states
Hizbullah is no more than a puppet, as is Lebanon. Yet their weapons and decisions are attached to those who control the strings in Syria and Iran. The reason that Hizbullah is such a threat is because a west that uses the carrot of appeasement with any stick does not strike fear in Iran, Rather emboldening them to act antagonistically to the the west. To better understand the mentality of the Iranian regime please watch: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheJerusalemCenter#p/…
The UN, as usual, fails. They run from conflict or they steal from or rape those the Blue Hats are supposed to protect.
The Islamists get what they want and sit around and laugh
at how stupid the Western States are. Why should they listen
to reason or do anything other than continue to destroy and
create mayhem while destroying the peace of Israel, they
have time and tide on their side and we have weakling morons
making every excuse immaginable to do nothing serious.
It will take years for the American Government to be under
the control of it's citizens and it may be to late, Israel is on
its own for the next few years, maybe the new Congress will
make provision to help with military needs. Obama gave
Hamas $900,000,000.00 of our tax dollars and sent military
trainers to help these murderers, when do we throw up our
hands, will it be to fight or in continuous frustration………..William