Posted on 08/21/2006 12:08:04 AM PDT by garbageseeker
Between Friday and Saturday night, the IDF commando unit supplied the incriminating evidence. That's the official report coming from the defense establishment. The next stage will include the diplomatic struggle and air strikes.
An incriminating operation is part of the covert intelligence war being waged between Israel and Hizbullah . Had the force not been exposed, the operation would have remained another covert operation taking place on the border of Syria and Lebanon , just one in a series of similar operations that are carried out throughout the year, frequently during wartime and immediately after.
Incrimination means providing information. In this instance – to provide clear cut evidence of any type that despite the UN Security Council resolution, despite the ceasefire, various countries are continuing to deliver arms to Hizbullah.
Open account with Russia as well
Bear in mind, it's not just Syria and Iran. Israel has an open account with the Russians as well, for example. For years, the Russians denied the connection between the military equipment sold to Syria and the equipment that ended up in Hizbullah hands. In this last war in Lebanon, Hizbullah fired Russian antitank missiles that were sold to Syria. Hizbullah didn't hide them, they fired openly.
If Israel can prove that Russian arms are still making their way from the Syrian military warehouses to Lebanon after the ceasefire was imposed – the Russians won't be able to continue denying their connection, as the Security Council decided to impose an embargo on all countries selling military equipment to Hizbullah without the Lebanese government's consent.
That's how the incriminating evidence is supposed to get the wheels of the diplomatic pressure moving.
If the commando unit did indeed succeed in obtaining evidence showing that Syrian equipment passed through, arrived and was stored at selected sites
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Well, it seems only right that SYRIA and IRAN should have the embargo placed on it, since Hezbollah isn't a country, nor a government of one. What's the point of having an embargo on terrorist groups who can't legaly buy weapons anyway?
Only the UN knows the insane logic of that.
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