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Hezbollah is Secretly Building Battle Positions
National Review ^ | October 1, 2007 | W. Thomas Smith Jr.

Posted on 10/01/2007 9:09:42 AM PDT by DetailMan

I know for a fact that Hezbollah is building defenses and fortifications from which they can launch attacks in the south (where I was two days ago), in the Bekaa Valley, and in Al Dahiyeh (the Hezbollah security square in Beirut, which we covertly entered and moved through twice during our photo-reconnaissance a few days ago). ... he houses are being rebuilt – as they were — with secret interconnecting corridors linking the houses together in a link-by-link network of fighting positions. There are tunnels running beneath the houses linking them with other buildings and adjacent neighborhoods, as well as to huge underground command posts. And there are walls being constructed with concealed weapons-storage spaces.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blog; iran; lebanon; syria
This should be in MSM
1 posted on 10/01/2007 9:09:45 AM PDT by DetailMan
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To: DetailMan

Hezbollah’s OpSec (operational security) isn’t what it used to be.

It’s safe to say that the Mossad has adequate bugs in place in the new construction.


2 posted on 10/01/2007 9:12:41 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: DetailMan

They are rebuilding large, smoking holes in the ground


3 posted on 10/01/2007 9:14:07 AM PDT by bill1952 (The 10 most important words for change: "If it is to be, it is up to me")
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To: DetailMan

Welcome to FR.

This ain’t breaking news.

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4 posted on 10/01/2007 9:14:07 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: DetailMan
This should be in MSM

Sure they will! This story will be on right after the story of much lower US casualties in Iraq this summer.

5 posted on 10/01/2007 9:15:59 AM PDT by AU72
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Effective fighting positions or Maginot Line?
6 posted on 10/01/2007 9:16:32 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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Secretly?

shuuuush we did'nt read this ey?

7 posted on 10/01/2007 9:21:14 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: DetailMan

Shhh. Secret.


8 posted on 10/01/2007 9:22:07 AM PDT by RightWhale (25 degrees today. Phase state change accomplished.)
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When I read the headline, I thought it saidd they were working on building up their pensions. Of course, they don’t think that far ahead.


9 posted on 10/01/2007 9:27:34 AM PDT by Paladin2 (If you can't say something nice about CFR lackeys, just keep quiet.)
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To: DetailMan
with secret interconnecting corridors linking the houses together in a link-by-link network of fighting positions. There are tunnels running beneath the houses linking them with other buildings and adjacent neighborhoods, as well as to huge underground command posts. And there are walls being constructed with concealed weapons-storage spaces.

Wow. Even for Mossad that is some kind of intel! Especially since this wasn't leaked thru the Mossad's publicity dept: DEBKA. Underground command posts? Concealed weapons storage spaces? Tunnels linked?

I doubt this really was vetted and released by Mossad. They'd be smart enough to stay quiet and pre-target down to the nearest inch for JDAMs later. More likely this was some kinda terrorist apologist or accomplice giving the ROP equivalent of the stage whisper: Pssssst! Your OP has been blown. Time to relocate to secondary positions!

10 posted on 10/01/2007 9:40:13 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: DetailMan

Solution: Carpet bombing.


11 posted on 10/01/2007 9:40:23 AM PDT by Lancer_N3502A
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They are building them here.


12 posted on 10/01/2007 9:43:53 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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Those tunnels collapse very well with a few bombs and it saves them time digging graves.


13 posted on 10/01/2007 9:59:33 AM PDT by b4its2late (~ This Tagline Intentionally Left Blank ~)
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To: DetailMan

LOL! Secret military plans are not newsworthy, unless they are American—in which case they must be immediately disclosed as loudly and possible all over the world.


14 posted on 10/01/2007 2:13:09 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The extent to which they are rebuilding them is a secret.


15 posted on 10/02/2007 3:34:57 AM PDT by DetailMan
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