Posted on 08/02/2008 6:11:42 PM PDT by mojito
In a display of Hizbullah's extended involvement in conflicts throughout the Middle East, Coalition Special Forces captured two members of the group during a raid over the weekend in eastern Baghdad.
According to the Multinational Force Iraq, the raid targeted the home of an individual suspected of serving as a member of a Hizbullah cell - called "Kata'ib Hizbullah" or "Hizbullah Brigades" - suspected of making videos of attacks on coalition forces.
The videos are then used to raise funds and resources for additional attacks against coalition and Iraqi forces.
According to media reports, the Hizbullah Brigades have been active for over a year in Iraq and like Hizbullah in Lebanon, the group is trained and financed by Iran, likely via the Hizbullah's Al Kuds force, which was commanded by its chief operations officer Imad Mughniyeh who was assassinated in Damascus in February.
"The Hizbullah Brigades receive support from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command for financing, weapons, training and guidance," the Multi-National Force in Iraq said in a statement in response to a Jerusalem Post inquiry. "They have claimed responsibility for attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi Security Forces as early as late 2005."
On videos that it has posted on the Internet, the Hizbullah Brigades group uses a logo very similar to the Lebanese Hizbullah flag, showing a raised arm holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle, although coalition forces said they were not sure of the nature of the relationship with the Lebanese Hizbullah.
This is not the first time that Hizbullah operatives have been captured in Iraq. In July 2007, coalition forces apprehended Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Hizbullah leader and explosives expert, in Basra where he was reportedly training forces and even participated in several deadly attacks against US troops. Daqduq, a veteran of the Al-Kuds Force, was reportedly in Iraq to train and evaluate the performance of anti-US Shi'ite militias.
Also Friday, Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, Hizbullah military commander in Southern Lebanon, told the Daily Telegraph that the group was stronger today than before the Second Lebanon War and was prepared for conflict with Israel.
"The resistance is now stronger than before and this keeps the option of war awake," he told the paper. "If we were weak, Israel would not hesitate to start another war... We are stronger than before and when Hizbullah is strong, our strength stops Israel from starting a new war... We don't seek war, but we must be ready."
Israel has claimed that since the war Hizbullah has tripled its missile arsenal and today has more than 30,000 rockets, some of which are capable of reaching almost anywhere within Israel and as far south as Dimona.
Last week, Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and warned him that Security Council Resolution 1701 had collapsed and that UNIFIL was not effective in curbing Hizbullah's military build-up.
"To our disappointment we are witnessing that over the past two years the number of missiles in Hizbullah's hands has doubled and maybe even tripled," Barak told Ban. "The ranges of the missiles have been extended and this is mainly due to close Syrian assistance."
You know, if Iran is completely removed from the equation, I think that I can safely predict that most Islamic terrorism in the world would end overnight.
The good thing about catching these terrorists without destroying the building is that they have horrible document security and it usually leads to other groups who have equally horrible document security and so on and so on.
If so, I think we owe it to them to observe the Geneva Convention, and should shoot them as spies at dawn local time tomorrow.
Nah, send them home to their families,..... five pounds at a time.
How many acts of war, threats, and provocations has Iran committed. What the H are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a dam.
Next stop is in Iran.
And it’s five, six, seven, .....
(sorry, just reminded me of an old antiwar song)
Elam will be completely removed from the equation:
Jer 49:35 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, The finest of their might.
Jer 49:36 'I will bring upon Elam the four winds From the four ends of heaven, And will scatter them to all these winds; And there will be no nation To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.
Jer 49:37 'So I will shatter Elam before their enemies And before those who seek their lives; And I will bring calamity upon them, Even My fierce anger,' declares the LORD, 'And I will send out the sword after them Until I have consumed them.
I find it interesting that in the prophecy of the destruction of Iran it specificaly mentions that their Bow, their finest weapon will be destroyed. Then they get hit from all directions so bad that the entire population if Iran flees.
I think we can safely file this under getting a can opener only to select a can of Whoop-ass for your tryouts.
LOL! And I’m a lot older than that song, unfortunately.
Hezbollah never was just Israel’s problem. That was short-sighted thinking.
Good luck opening your front Iran. Iraqi citizens other than the druid in deep east Baghdad know the score and your team has been eliminated.
The manufacturing plants are targeted along with nuclear facilities from the east and over the mountains. Their radar can be blinded just like the Syrians were by advanced electronic counter-measures. Blow up their only refrinery and their ships are sitting ducks. In the Gulf of Hormuz.
Guess where the PAC-3 missiles are going. They don't have an explosive payload. They are so fast, and the radar so quick, the kinetic energy can destroy a missile, aircraft or ship. And they can be de-locked and fired from fighter AC too. Boeing wants as many as they can get. Its very delicate stuff.
And you have Raytheon. I built and put things delicately together for them too. I got the serial number for the Standard Missile 3 the Navy sent up to blow up a non- responsive satellite that was the size of a bus a few months ago.
What I work on works:)
Those are reasons alone to completely destroy their nation.
PING
And my hat is off to you, you are one of the many unsung hero's working hard to defend this nation. You may not wear a uniform, but I give you a salute just the same. Blessings, and may the Lord God of Israel and the God of (most) American's bless the works of your hand and your family.
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