Syria steps up flow of weapons to Hizballah, which "doesn't know where to put it all"

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Syria steps up flow of weapons to Hizballah, which "doesn't know where to put it all"


That is, at least until it can put them to use against Israel. Hizballah, now a stronger armed force in Lebanon than the Lebanese Army, is the only group from the Lebanese civil war that failed to disarm. This activity yet again renders U.N. Resolution 1559, a 2004 document demanding the disarmament of all Lebanese militia groups including Hizballah, not worth the paper it was printed on until it is fully enforced.



The reward for Beirut's longstanding inaction toward the parallel, parasitic pseudo-state growing within it is that Lebanon has become a hostage state in a Syrian-Iranian proxy jihad via Hizballah, and the hostage quite often seems to have Stockholm Syndrome.



"Syria steps up Hezbollah armament," from YNet News, July 16:



Damascus has accelerated its supply of weapons to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Ynet learned Saturday.

According to intelligence sources in the West and the Middle East, Syria's arms shipments to the Shiite organization have remained steady despite the unrest sweeping across the country, and they include advanced ballistic missiles.

Syria is said to be employing the help of experts from Iran and North Korea to press ahead with its development of sophisticated missiles at a secret site, believed to be built into Jabal Taqsis, a mountain near the opposition stronghold of Hama.

The missile program is allegedly run by the Scientific Studies and Research Centre in Damascus, an organization that is already on the United States' sanctions list.

With financial and political support from Iran, Damascus has also stepped up its military assistance to Hezbollah.

Sources close to Hezbollah said that the flow of weapons entering the Bekaa Valley from Syria had accelerated since March, when protests erupted against the Assad regime.

The scale of arms shipments is said to be so great that Hezbollah "doesn’t know where to put it all." Another source said that the shipments were simply contingency measures and that "We can send it all back when things calm down in Syria."

Latest weapon deliveries to the Lebanon-based militant group include, according to The Australian, advanced Scud D surface-to-surface missiles, which can carry a one-ton warhead and have a range of 700km – placing all of Israel, Jordan and a large part of Turkey within Hezbollah's range and therefore at risk.

Hezbollah has also reportedly been given M600 surface-to-surface missiles, which have a range of 250km and are based on Iranian technology.

According to The Times, M600 missiles are considered "strategic weapons" and "This is the first time that a terror organization has obtained a missile of this type."

Scud missiles are based on North Korean expertise.

Dear Leader must have liked the floral basket.



"North Korea has transitioned from selling full missile systems to licensed production and assembly of missiles (in third countries)," said Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies non-proliferation and disarmament program.

Israeli military intelligence also confirmed that Hezbollah has been engaged in a serious arms build-up....Posted by Marisol

Immigration Lessons from Lebanon

An interesting article from www.ucg.org about Lebanon and Syria. This follows this post about Marian Apperitions, such as Fatima.  For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

Immigration Lessons from Lebanon


A commentary by Don Hooser



Once considered the banking capital of the Arab world, Lebanon was widely known as the "Switzerland of the Middle East." It attracted tourists in large numbers. The city of Beirut was often referred to as the "Paris of the Middle East." But Beirut has since undergone drastic changes.



Lovely Lebanon is becoming less and less lovely. Where once there were great forests of the mighty "cedars of Lebanon" on the snow-capped mountain slopes, there remains only a small percentage of those famous trees. Numerous towns and villages have been devastated by many years of war.



What caused Lebanon's tragic decline? The answer has many parts. I will focus on just three aspects: (1) repeated floods of immigrants, refugees and invaders, (2) the demographic change from a largely Christian population to a predominantly Muslim population, and (3) its civil war and wars against Israel.



Great devastation in Lebanon occurred during the Lebanon Civil War, 1975 to 1990. The name "civil war" is terribly misleading.



The story of Lebanon during that terrible time is told by Brigitte (pronounced bri-zheet') Gabriel in her book titled: Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America.



Brigitte grew up in Lebanon as a Maronite Christian and the daughter of a prosperous restaurant owner. She describes how hospitable and multicultural the Lebanese people had been, welcoming immigrants and multiple waves of refugees from many countries across their open borders.



Most of the new residents, of course, were Muslims. Lebanon did not foresee that the dominant mindset of the new immigrants would change the internal political climate from hospitable to hostile. Hatred replaced tolerance.



In 1975 Brigitte was ten years old when militant Islamists from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad ("holy war") against Lebanese Christians. Lebanon was the only country in the Middle East with a Christian majority and the Lebanese Civil War was the first front in what has become the worldwide jihad of the fundamentalist Islamic theology against "infidels"—all non-Muslim peoples.



Brigitte, at age 10, could hardly believe that the radical Islamists wanted to kill her—just because she was Christian. Her family home was soon destroyed by a rocket that left her seriously injured. For the next seven years, she and her parents lived in an 8x10 bomb shelter with no electricity and barely enough food and water to stay alive. They finally received help in various ways from the Israelis.



Radicalized Islamists and Palestinians have been invading Lebanon ever since. Their goal has been to cleanse the country of Christians and to set up bases for attacking Israel. Lebanon has become increasingly helpless, often a puppet of Syria and Iran. Today much of Lebanon is still under the control of the terrorist organization Hezbollah.



The radicalized Islamist population in Lebanon has increased dramatically, due to Muslims immigrating into Lebanon with their customs of having multiple wives and encouraging high birth rates. (Osama bin Laden was one of 53 children, and he has 27 children.)



Western nations could learn some valuable reality lessons from the history of Lebanon. The goal of radical Islamists involves the genocide of all "infidels" who will not convert to Islam. Their quest is to dominate the entire world with Sharia law (Islamic religious law). To accomplish this, they increasingly glorify suicide bombings.



Brigitte Gabriel alleges that a common saying of the radicalized Islamists is, "First comes Saturday, and then comes Sunday," indicating their aim to first destroy "the little Satan" (the Sabbath leaning nation of Israel) and then "the great Satan," (the Sunday leaning nation of America).



The U.S. Border Patrol classifies each illegal alien only as Mexican or OTM—"Other Than Mexican." OTM sounds harmless. But OTM's can include radical Islamists from all over the world. The U.S. already is plagued with countless terrorist sleeper cells—just waiting for the right opportunities or timing to strike.



The region of Lebanon and "the glory of Lebanon" are referred to prominently in the Bible (Isaiah:35:2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.; 60:13). But that glory has largely been destroyed from within.



The tragedy in Lebanon should alert America and other Western nations to a particular biblical warning about allowing unfriendly aliens to take up residence within their borders. The result will be, "The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower" (Deuteronomy:28:43The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.).



How will this affect your life? Biblical prophecy plainly reveals the effect that current trends in the Middle East will have on Western nations and on your future. You need to understand those prophecies.



To receive that understanding, I recommend that you request or download our free, informative booklet, The Middle East in Bible Prophecy.

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Alhamdillullah [Praise allah]: Hezbollah Leader Fadlallah Dies on Independence Day; “Moderates” Praise Dead Terrorist Chief

A very interesting post from www.debbieschlussel.com about the death of Hezbollah's spiritual leader. This follows this post about the biography of Barack movie. This follows this post about Genocide in South Africa and this article about the recent news about offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.

Alhamdillullah [Praise allah]: Hezbollah Leader Fadlallah Dies on Independence Day; “Moderates” Praise Dead Terrorist Chief
By Debbie Schlussel
Na, na, na, na; Na, na, na, na; Hey, hey . . . Good-bye! It’s a 4th of July bonus.
Great news as America celebrates its birthday and independence from England: Hezbollah spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah is DEAD at age 74 or 75 (depending on the news source). Buh-bye. On the State Department terrorist list, Fadlallah was one of the top terrorists in the world, behind the murders of hundreds of Americans, Jews, and Israelis, in cooperation with his benefactors in Iran, Syria, and his native South Lebanon. Now, he’s off to 72-dark-eyed-revirginized jehenim [hell]. But what’s significant is that he wasn’t just the leader of a major Islamic terrorist group, but also THE leader of Shi’ite Muslims worldwide, almost all of whom worshipped him and his terrorist activities.

Fadlallah is the man who issued the fatwas okaying the 1983 bombing mass murder of the U.S. Marine barracks and U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing more than 300 U.S. Marines and officials. He permitted the torture murders of Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem, Col. Rich Higgins, and CIA attache William Buckley. Fadlallah’s the one who gave the “go” for the bombing of the Jewish Community Center and Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 1990s. And he’s behind a number of murderous, anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic actions taken by Hezbollah, including the group’s participation in several Al-Qaeda bombings and terrorist attacks against Americans.
Good riddance. Sadly, he’ll soon be replaced. The Iranians have a list of candidates ready to be enacted. I believe that Fadlallah’s sons, Sayyed Ali and Jaafar, are among the top choices. It will be interesting to see which world leaders and other figures attend Fadlallah’s funeral, set for Tuesday. Will Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri attend? Or will they send condolences, which is just as bad. The so-called “moderate” Hariri has already praised this mass murderer as a “voice of moderation”:
Saad Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, mourned the loss of “a voice of moderation and an advocate of unity among the Lebanese and Muslims in general”.
Disgusting. Also, it will be interesting to see if three of Fadlallah’s best American friends–Arab American News publisher and Hezbollah agent Osama Siblani, Imam Hassan Qazwini, and Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi (the latter two head the two largest mosques in North America)–will attend. All three have hung out with the man and were huge supporters of his. And all three were constantly feted by Bush and Obama administration officials.
It’s no shocker that among the mourners are members of the Berro family:
“He was like a second father to me,” said Abed Berro, a 28-year-old bank worker, sitting with hundreds of other male mourners inside the mosque that Fadlallah, 74, had built in the mainly Shia southern suburbs of Beirut.
In fact, the Berro family, a prominent Hezbollah Shi’ite terrorist family, has members in Detroit, whose DNA was tested to prove that their cousin, Ibrahim Hussein Berro, was the homicide bomber who blew up the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, which–as I noted above–was one of the many deadly operations Fadlallah sanctioned and approved. As I reported, the same Detroit Berro family was involved in a Bridge Card/Food Stamp fraud ring tied to Hezbollah.
Alhamdillullah [thank, allah]. Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead.
Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Rot In Hell.

Lebanon War

I wanted to give an update on the Battle of Beirut that Hezbollah seems to have won this week. A previous article about this is here http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/israel-palestine-lebanon-syria-hopes.html which talked about possible truces between various parties. Anyway, the article with links is below and I hope you find it interesting.

Hezbollah solidifies power in Lebanon
Peace deal accedes to militants' demands
By Liz Sly Tribune correspondent
10:54 PM CDT, May 21, 2008

BEIRUT — The Iran-backed Hezbollah movement secured all its key demands in a major political deal announced Wednesday by Lebanon's feuding factions, heralding an end to the long political crisis that had pushed Lebanon dangerously close to civil war.Lebanese awoke to the startling news that their squabbling leaders had finally agreed on a formula under which a new president would be elected, a new government formed, and the destabilizing 18-month-old occupation of downtown Beirut by Hezbollah protesters would be ended.The lengthy confrontation more broadly mirrored the struggle for power under way in the Middle East between the United States, which brands Hezbollah a terrorist organization, and Iran, which provides Hezbollah weapons and funding. The outcome reflected Iran's rising influence in the region since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought to power a Shiite government there, extending Iran's reach into the Arab world.The deal came only after the Shiite movement Hezbollah had escalated its pressure on the U.S.-backed Lebanese government by staging a military takeover of mostly Sunni West Beirut, defeating pro-government militia forces in a single night of fierce battles.

By turning its guns on fellow Lebanese, Hezbollah had pushed the issue of its weapons to the fore, and government supporters had been insisting that Hezbollah's private arsenal be part of any deal.Instead, Hezbollah won its chief demand, for veto rights in the new government, without making any concessions on its weapons, affirming Hezbollah's stature as "the preponderant military actor and the super-political power in Lebanon," according to political scientist Hilal Khashan of the American University of Beirut.
'Major defeat'
"It was an excellent deal for the Hezbollah-led opposition and a major defeat for the U.S.-backed government," he said.President George W. Bush has repeatedly urged the Lebanese government to stand firm against Hezbollah's demands, and the deal giving Hezbollah a prominent role in the new government drew a lukewarm reception from Washington.In a statement, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the agreement "a positive step toward resolving the current crisis.""We call upon all Lebanese leaders to implement this agreement in its entirety," she said.The accord was brokered by a key U.S. Arab ally, Qatar, which was host to the heads of 17 Lebanese factions at crisis talks in the Qatari capital, Doha. The Arab League, composed mostly of U.S. allies, played a major part in securing the deal, and U.S. foes Syria and Iran both declared their support for it.Under the new arrangement, parliament will elect as president the current head of the Lebanese Army, Gen. Michel Suleiman, probably Sunday, ending a six-month vacancy in the presidency. Then, a new government will be appointed in which Hezbollah has enough seats to veto key decisions.The veto rights ensure that the new government won't be able to challenge Hezbollah's growing arsenal of weapons, as it appeared to do on May 6 when it ordered an investigation into Hezbollah's telecommunications system. Hezbollah interpreted the decision as an attack on its weapons, which it is allowed to keep to defend the country against Israel, and retaliated by ordering the attack on Beirut.But this was a deal nonetheless, and on a day when two other key players in the region, Israel and Syria, also announced that they were negotiating via Turkish intermediaries, hopes soared that peace, not war, would prevail.Almost immediately, Hezbollah supporters and city workers began dismantling the tented city that has paralyzed commercial and social life in downtown Beirut for the past 18 months.Just as quickly, merchants and cafe owners began resurrecting their shuttered businesses, full of hope that tourists would soon be flooding back to Lebanon."I cried with joy," said restaurant manager Mustafa Mattar, 32, speaking of the moment when his boss told him there was a deal and that he could go back to work after 18 months of idleness. "My boss cried too," he said as he pulled tables out of storage at the shuttered Siesta In cafe in preparation for what he hopes will be a prosperous summer.
But will deal last?
How long the deal will last is in question. In many ways, the arrangement offers only a reprieve until next spring, when fresh elections for a new government are due.The deal includes a reform of Lebanon's electoral law that will give Shiites fairer representation in Beirut to reflect their expanded numbers in a city traditionally dominated by Sunnis and Christians, increasing the likelihood that Hezbollah and its allies will win in the next elections.The recent fighting also exacerbated Sunni-Shiite tensions, opening new sectarian wounds that will not easily be healed by a backroom deal reached by the country's chieftains in a distant Arab capital."What about the people who were killed?" asked nightclub owner Haitham Fawaz, 32, a Sunni who lost two friends in the recent fighting. "I don't believe in Lebanon anymore, and the moment I can leave the country I will."The pain felt by many Sunnis was acknowledged by Sunni leader Saad Hariri, whose Future Movement fighters were routed in the recent fighting with Hezbollah."I know the wounds are deep. My wounds are especially deep," he told reporters in Doha after the deal. "But in this country we have no choice but to live together."And many Lebanese say that is all they want."I've never seen so many smiles on people's faces," said Mohammed Ali, 34, who works for the company charged with cleaning up the downtown area. "In Lebanon you can never get a good deal. You just get a deal, and if the politicians are talking instead of fighting, it's enough to make the people happy."


More Links here

HT: Powerline
A few days ago Michael Totten wrote about the failure of Hezbollah to push the Druze back during the recent fighting, and sounded almost optimistic about the country. Look for a Totten update soon, and for Claudia Rosett to weigh in as well.
One Lebanese columnist, Elias Khoury, branded the deal "a long truce."
Wizbang's Jay Tea blasts the State Department's absurd reaction to the deal.
The New York Times adds reactions here.

Second Lebanon War?

Since you probably are going to get your May Good News soon www.gnmagazine.org , I wanted to alert you to this news item in Lebanon about Hezbollah and you can click on the link below about Israel's Olmert government. I hope you find it timely and interesting and you might want to follow it up by rereading our book about the Middle East in Bible Prophecy here http://www.ucg.org/booklets/ME/


Friday, May 09, 2008
The Beginning Of The Next Lebanon War?Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 9:29 AM
From AP:
Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday in the country's worst sectarian clashes since the 15-year civil war.The crisis in Lebanon is arriving just as the Ohlmert government in Jerusalem stumbles into a deeper paralysis.
Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 29 minutes ago
Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of key parts of Beirut from Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-backed government Friday, a dramatic show-of-force certain to strengthen the Iranian-allied group's hand as it fights for dominance in Lebanon's political deadlock.An ally of Hezbollah said the group intended to pull back, at least partially, from the areas its gunmen occupied overnight and Friday morning — signaling Hezbollah likely does not intend a full-scale, permanent takeover of Sunni Muslim parts of Beirut, similar to the Hamas takeover of Gaza a year ago.The clashes eased by Friday evening as Lebanon's army began peacefully moving into some areas where Hezbollah gunmen had a presence.But as Hezbollah gunmen celebrated in the capital's empty streets — including marching down Hamra Street, one of its glitziest shopping lanes — it was clear that the show-of-force would have wide implications for Lebanon and the entire Mideast.Lebanon's army largely stood aside as the Shiite militiamen scattered their opponents and occupied large swaths of the capital's Muslim sector early Friday — a sign of how tricky Lebanon's politics have become.In one instance, the army stood aside as Shiite militiamen burned the building of the newspaper of their main Sunni rival — acting only to evacuate people and then allow firefighters later to put out the blaze.The army has pledged to keep the peace but not take sides in the long political deadlock — which pits Shiite Hezbollah and a handful of allies including some Christian groups, against the U.S.-backed government, which includes Christian and Sunni Muslims.Three days of street battles and gunfights capped by Friday's Hezbollah move have killed at least 14 people and wounded 20 — the country's worst sectarian fighting since the 1975-1990 civil war.Three more people were killed in two separate incidents on Friday after the Hezbollah takeover. Two of them were Druse allies of Hezbollah who died in a shooting in a hilly suburb southeast of the capital late Friday, security officials said.For Beirut residents and those across the Mideast, it was a grim reminder of that troubled time when Beirut was carved into enclaves ruled by rival factions and car bombs and snipers devastated the capital.The takeover by the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah was a blow to U.S. policy as President Bush's administration has been a staunch supporter of the government in Beirut over the last three years."We are very troubled by the recent actions of Hezbollah," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Friday."We urge Hezbollah to stop their attempt to defy the lawful decisions taken by the democratically elected Lebanese government. We also urge Iran and Syria to stop their support of Hezbollah and its destabilizing effects on Lebanon," he added.The fighting also was certain to have implications for the entire Middle East at a time when Sunni-Shiite tensions are high. The tensions are fueled in part by the rivalry between predominantly Shiite Iran, which sponsors Hezbollah, and Sunni Arab powers in the region such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt.The leaders of Qatar and Syria held talks on Lebanon in Damascus, which wields influence with Hezbollah and has close relations with Iran. Syria's official news agency said the two sides agreed the conflict in Lebanon was an internal affair and expressed hope the feuding parties would find a solution through dialogue.About 100 Shiite Hezbollah militants wearing matching camouflage uniforms and carrying assault rifles marched down Hamra Street, a normally vibrant commercial strip in a mainly Sunni area of Beirut. They took up positions in corners and sidewalks and stopped the few cars braving the empty streets to search their trunks.On nearby streets, dozens of fighters from another Hezbollah-allied party appeared, some wearing masks and carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers.The Hezbollah takeover was peaceful in some neighborhoods as the militants fanned out across the Muslim sector of the city.
Later in the day, Lebanese troops began taking up positions in some Sunni neighborhoods abandoned by the pro-government groups, but did not intervene in the clashes, which had largely tapered off into sporadic gunfire by early afternoon. Some of the gunfire was celebratory in the air by the militants.
A senior security official said the army began deploying on some streets with the end of the clashes and would soon take over the Sunnis' last stronghold of Tarik Jadideh. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
In some cases Hezbollah handed over newly won positions to Lebanese troops, presumably after having made clear to everyone its strength ahead of the next round of negotiations with opponents over the country's political future.
Hezbollah's power was demonstrated dramatically Friday morning when it forced the TV station affiliated to the party of Lebanon's top Sunni lawmaker, Saad Hariri, off the air. Gunmen also set the offices of the party's newspaper, Al-Mustaqbal, on fire in the coastal neighborhood of Ramlet el-Bayda.
Later in the afternoon, anti-government gunmen loyal to a pro-Syrian group attacked and set on fire a two-story building where Hariri's Future TV have their archives. The building, in the western neighborhood of Rawche, is about 100 yards from the Saudi embassy.
With top leaders Hariri of the Sunnis and Druse leader Walid Jumblatt besieged in their residences in Muslim western Beirut, officials of the pro-government majority held an emergency meeting in a mountain town in the Christian heartland northeast of Beirut
After the meeting, they issued a statement calling on the army to take control of the streets and urging Arab and international intervention to pressure the countries that support Hezbollah — meaning Iran and Syria.
"The bloody coup d'etat aims at returning Syria to Lebanon and placing Iran on the Mediterranean," said the statement read by Christian pro-government leader Samir Geagea. "Violence will not terrorize us, but it will increase our resolve," he said.
He said the Hezbollah takeover violated the constitution which governs Christian-Muslim coexistence in Lebanon.
Late Friday, a group of gunmen fired about a dozen bullets at a statue of Rafik Hariri next to the seafront road where he was killed in a massive 2005 truck bombing. The statue was raised in February on the anniversary of the assassination.
Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and several ministers were holed up in Saniora's downtown office surrounded by troops and police.
An emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo to discuss the crisis will be held in two days, said Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki.
The unrest has virtually shut down Lebanon's international airport and barricades closed major highways. The seaport also was closed, leaving one land route to Syria as Lebanon's only link to the outside world.