The truth continues to eke out. From U.S. Official: Iraqis Told Me WMDs Sent to Syria: Don Bordenkircher, who served two years as national director of prison and jail operations in Iraq, said that about 40 prisoners he spoke with “boasted of being involved in the transport of WMD warheads to Syria” in the three months prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. He said he was told the WMDs were shipped by truck into Syria, and some ended up in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Prisoners who said they worked at the al-Muthana Chemical Industries site said the cargo included nitrogen mustard gas
Read More +Do the French really feel this way? From French Military Against Assad’s Presence at Bastille Day Parade: The French government has banned a demonstration by French veterans meant in part to protest against the presence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as an honored guest at the July 14 Bastille Day military parade, French media reported on Friday. French veterans blame Syria for the deaths of 58 French members of a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon in 1983. The FNAME veterans group has called on soldiers marching in Monday’s parade to wear black armbands to protest Assad’s presence. Former French President
Read More +The Iranian Roots of Hizbullah
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The Iranian Roots of Hizbullah(1) By: Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli* Iran/Lebanon #448 June 17, 2008 Table of Contents: IntroductionAkhteri’s Background and Proselytizing ActivityFacing the First CrisisThe Splintering of Amal and the Creation of HizbullahSyria Allowed the Passage of Military Aid to HizbullahThe Establishment of Al-Manar TVHizbullah’s Social Institutions ñ Identical To Iran’sRefusal to Pay for ElectricityThe Shi’ization of SyriaConclusionNotes “Iran is the only country that does not interfere in Lebanon.” – Mahmoud Ahamdinejad(2) IntroductionAhmadinejad’s absurd statement coincided ironically with the publication in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat of an extensive interview with Mohammad Hassan Akhteri, who has recently completed a total
Read More +By Dore Gold 1) Israeli negotiators will quickly discover three core areas in their discussions with the Syrians that they will not resolve easily: delineation of an agreed boundary, security arrangements, and the Syrian-Iranian alliance.2) Just prior to the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Syria deployed 1,400 tanks along the border against a total Israeli force of 177 tanks (a force ratio of 8 to 1 in favor of Syria). Should Syria’s considerable missile forces be used to delay Israel’s reserve mobilization, then the importance of the Golan terrain will increase as Israel’s small standing army will have
Read More +Get your facts right, Syria, and quit your stinking mendacity. From Israel Never Pledged Full Withdrawal from Golan: Israel never pledged to withdraw from the Golan Heights and return to the 1967 borders as part of peace negotiations with Syria, despite declarations of officials in Damascus, Israeli sources told Israel Channel 10 Thursday. The sources said Israel had initially intended to wait for direct negotiations to begin before publicizing news of renewed contact, but Syria had wanted the talks to be made public.
Read More +DEBKAfile’s military sources report that three weeks before Hezballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speedboats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod Mediterranean ports and raid its coastal oil installations. The speedboats were tailor-made for Hizballah by Iranian Revolutionary Guards shipyards at Bandar Abbas as the only marine terror fleet operating in Mediterranean waters. Our military sources report the boats are capable of carrying chemical, biological and radiological weapons systems. They were delivered in
Read More +Once again Israel does the job America won’t do. The entire civilized world can once again thank Israel for preventing another Muslim dictatorship theocracy from using nuclear weapons against infidels. Later today U.S. intelligence officials will show members of Congress a videotape and other evidence supporting their case that Syria was building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance before it was bombed by Israeli planes in September 2007, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Intelligence officials who have seen the evidence consider it “extremely compelling,” the anonymous U.S. official said. He said it was gleaned from a variety of sources,
Read More +It wasn’t the Mossad, Jew bashers, it was archetypical Muslim vs. Muslim carnage. From Iran: Syria Arrests Saudi Official Over Mughniyeh Assassination: In a move that could have far reaching consequences, Syria arrested a Saudi official in connection with the assassination of top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday. A high-ranking defense official in Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Damascus, who was connected to a Syrian woman in whose name the two explosives-laden cars used to kill Mughniyeh were registered, was arrested by Syrian security forces. An Iranian source said locals with Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian
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