This report comes to us from The Times;
Hezbollah is running weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, from secret arms depots in Syria to its bases in Lebanon, according to security sources.
The Times has been shown satellite images of one of the sites, a compound near the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus, where militants have their own living quarters, an arms storage site and a fleet of lorries reportedly used to ferry weapons into Lebanon.
The military hardware is either of Syrian origin or sent from Iran by sea, via Mediterranean ports, or by air, via Damascus airport. The arms are stored at the Hezbollah depot and then trucked into Lebanon.
“Hezbollah is allowed to operate this site freely,” said a security source. “They often move the arms in bad weather when Israeli satellites are unable to track them.”
Most of the weapons are sent from depots like the one near Adra and then stored at Hezbollah bases in the Bekaa Valley or southern Lebanon.
The revelation adds to growing fears in the West that the regime of Bashar Assad, the President of Syria, is becoming increasingly close to Hezbollah and its main supporter, Iran. Syria has long backed the Lebanese militant group, but until now most of those contacts have taken place on Lebanese soil.There are fears that if Israel and Hezbollah clash again — as happened in August 2006 — Syria could become directly embroiled in the conflict.
Israel reportedly planned recently to bomb one of the arms convoys as it crossed the border into Lebanon, but the operation was called off at the last minute. Western intelligence sources say that the Israelis have yielded — for now — to American diplomatic efforts to persuade Syria to stop the arms transfers. However, the apparent lack of success is increasing the chances that Israel may send a “calibrated signal” to Hezbollah and Syria by launching an airstrike against an arms depot or weapons convoy.
Jihad Makdissi, the spokesman for the Syrian Embassy in London, insisted that all military sites in Syria were exclusive to the Syrian military.
“Syria and Israel remain in a state of war as long as Israel refuses to implement UNSC [United Nations Security Council] resolutions to end the occupation of Arab lands; therefore if these military depots really exist it would be for the exclusive use of the Syrian Army to defend Syrian soil, and it is definitely nobody’s business,” he said.
I find this to curiously omit two very important details; details which never seem to find their way into any of the news reports which cover the miraculous teleporting of weapons into Lebanon. Ironically enough, the first and most blaring of the two details is the nation of Lebanon itself. I have firsthand knowledge of these border crossings as I have crossed them myself dozens of times. These are not donkey trails, they are not candle lit mountain passes filled with Vietcong humping SAM missiles whistling songs of praise to the dear leader. These are organized, fully staffed on both sides, public border crossings. I challenge anybody to dispute that fact.
The fact is that the media the western nations and their governments have absolutely no courage to ask the so-called moderate and western allied Lebanese government, how exactly are their border staff missing large convoys carrying ballistic missiles. Why is it that John Kerry and the New York Times will rush to question the Syrians while ignoring the Lebanese? Of course the bloody Syrians are going to stonewall any inquiries; it is in their interest to ship the missiles in the first place. But why on earth do we fail to question the nation where the missiles are brought into? It is not as if we do not have any presence, diplomatic as well as military, in that country. My friends the fact is that we really don't seem to care. Israel is a nuisance; a pest that Europe and the Obama regime just wish would simply go away. They have now fallen for the Arab plated idea that if there were no ore Jews, the world’s problems, especially terrorism, would no longer exist. Welcome to the new world.
The second detail, all failing of course to look into, is the role of the UN. UN soldiers dispatched to Lebanon to stop this very event, to monitor and disarm any Hezbollah missile capability, apparently has no interest in carrying out that function. Perhaps the function they pay more attention to is the monitoring of Israeli forces and the feeding of that intel to Hezbollah themselves. The UN, basically driven now by islamic interests, as well as Bolshevik dreamers, has about as much use for Israel as the Obama regime; besides, what's another six million dead Jews? Welcome to the new world.
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