Posted on 07/25/2007 11:32:47 AM PDT by Challenge
I am bringing this item from a Blog written by an anti-Hizbollah Shiite in Beirut. I have been viewing him since last summer and have found his blog to be a great source of news and opinion that the "mainstream" doesn't want to us to hear... here is today's post:
If you read Reuters' coverage of Nasralllah's latest interview, you will come across the following "background information" in nearly every story filed by their editors: Lebanese security and political sources said in May that Hezbollah had replenished its rocket arsenal and received improved anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles from Iran via Syria since a U.N.-backed truce halted hostilities in August. Israel and the United States accuse Syria and Iran of arming, training and funding Hezbollah. Syria and Iran say their support to the Shi'ite anti-Israel faction is purely political. The Beirut government says it has no proof of arms transfers from Syria since August.
And if this government is guilty of keeping Hizbullah-related information to itself, and apart from defense minister Elias Murr who thinks the battle in Nahr El Bared was over a month ago, was there ever a cabinet statement denying Syrian smuggling of weapons across the border, Hizbullah or not? If so, where is the statement? Last I checked, Siniora had confirmed that the Assad regime is smuggling weapons to Palestinian camps, which even Reuters reported on June 27.
Siniora was speaking the day after independent experts handed the U.N. Security Council a damning report which said Lebanese forces were largely incapable of preventing arms smuggling from Syria. The Lebanese prime minister told reporters during a trip to France he had not had time to read the report, but said it was clear Syria was sending weapons to two camps. "In recent weeks these camps have been reinforced with munitions, arms and fighters," he said, adding that one of the outposts was controlled by the Fateh al-Intifada group and another by the "Popular Front, General Command." Reuters has some explaining to do. And hopefully, the Lebanese government too. |
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