PS: You cannot hide an army.
Don't be so technical. ;)
Hey, you can hide 4-5000 syrian civilian agents under true lebanese ID's given to them by the late lebanese security apparatus. The new lebanese security services (hopefully, but still far from true) will have a lot of work to do debugging their files.
Well you can. The Rwandan army has remained in the Congo years after its official withdrawal. They simply donned the uniforms of the RCD rebel militia that controls the Kivus. As the RCD's footsoldiers are drawn from the Banyamulenge ethnic group, identical to the Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi tribes, it is impossible to prove.
However Congo is the size of western Europe (minus Scandinavia) and Lebanon is half the size of Wales. Also Syrians have a different accent to most Lebanese and can be spotted a mile off. They Syrian army cannot hide in Lebanon and itas troops have indeed been withdrawn over the past two months.
The question is how much of the Syrian intelligence services have also been pulled back. They can easily mingle with the large number of Syrian labourers that remain in the country.
Incidentally everyone in Lebanon is as pleased as punch today. I drove through the Bekaa Valley this afternoon with a couple of Lebanese friends and they were whooping all the way.
Well you can. The Rwandan army has remained in the Congo years after its official withdrawal. They simply donned the uniforms of the RCD rebel militia that controls the Kivus. As the RCD's footsoldiers are drawn from the Banyamulenge ethnic group, identical to the Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi tribes, it is impossible to prove.
However Congo is the size of western Europe (minus Scandinavia) and Lebanon is half the size of Wales. Also Syrians have a different accent to most Lebanese and can be spotted a mile off. They Syrian army cannot hide in Lebanon and itas troops have indeed been withdrawn over the past two months.
The question is how much of the Syrian intelligence services have also been pulled back. They can easily mingle with the large number of Syrian labourers that remain in the country.
Incidentally everyone in Lebanon is as pleased as punch today. I drove through the Bekaa Valley this afternoon with a couple of Lebanese friends and they were whooping all the way.