Posted on 07/22/2006 10:39:02 AM PDT by dos pelos
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Syria placed its army on war preparedness, pointed Scuds at Israel from Thursday, July 20, the day Tehran took control of Lebanon War
July 22, 2006, 12:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our sources add Syrian fighter pilots are sitting in their cockpits.
These orders went out from Syrian president Bashar Assad July 20 when Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig.-Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi (picture) assumed command of the Lebanon war from Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Tehran’s direct military intervention in the conflict was accompanied by an Iranian weapons airlift which began landing Wednesday, July 19, at the Abu Ad Duhur military airfield north of Homs. The deliveries include large quantities of new missiles, including the long-range Zelzal and Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles, Katyusha rockets, anti-tank and anti-air missiles sent out from RG HQ in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf.
Assad acted on the assumption that Israel, whose air force and ground forces are already hammering the cross-border supply routes north of the Litani River to block the passage of Iranian hardware to Hizballah, will soon decide to go for Iranian military operations in Damascus and Abu Ad Duhur.
Gen. Safavi has set up two forward command posts which coordinate war operations with Hizballah chief of staff Ibrahim Akil.
One center is working out of a cellar of the Iranian embassy in Beirut to regulate Hizballah rocket fire against Israel and direct the groups of 3 or 4 RG officers taking part in every Hizballah face-to-face engagement with Israeli ground troops in the south.
The second, housed in the basement of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, is in charge of communications, intelligence and getting hardware into Lebanon.
The deliveries were made to the Abu Ad Duhur airfield because it belongs to the joint Iranian-Syrian Scud missile factory which employs a large number of Iranian
engineers and technicians.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that some of the Iranian arms have Hizballah in Lebanon notwithstanding intense Israeli cutoff operations and their impact will probably be palpable in the coming days.
This is quite likely true.
There seems to be a lot of evidence that Iran is supplying them with weapons.
Why isn't the NYT reporting this? Thery're on top of the story about the "Bush administration" hurrying to get those precision bombs to Israel.
Is Iran flying over Iraq to resupply these missles through Syria. If so, isn't it time to get some of our pilots up over Iraq and bring down these resupply aircraft?
Well, a dozen years ago there were attacks on israeli targets in Argentina, IIRC - and these were traced to Iran. Thus, the continuing existence of the iranian embassy in Beirut is an oversight, best to be corrected by daytime bombing, when the vermin are in.
And trying not to wet themselves I bet.....
Nice target list. Especially the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Israel should take out the Iranian Emassies in Beirut and Damascus with JDAMS. See what that Whackjob Amaninijab does about it.
And that's where their relatives will find their charred remains... should Israel do what's needed.
I wonder how many participated in the last...ummm...IAF training exercise?
Not sitting in air conditioned cockpots, are they? Several days and nights of alert in summer heat guaranteed to sharpen their combat readiness..not.
I'll bet it gets very spooky on that flightline, especially, say, several hours before dawn.
No.
They should take them out with regular unguided bombs, with lots of collateral damage.
Didn't you know they dont have JDAMS! Why; the NY SLimes says so. Let them bitch about collateral damage.
OK with me. The 23 tons of ordinance dropped on that building in Beirut last week sure left a mark!
I was thinking more on the order of the fuel-air types that suck the air out of a 10 mile diameter. Wouldnt that be nice for the Hez-ebola!
How come 'caution' was added to the Debka story? Is it considered a reliable source?
Maybe not on this but Debka is often wrong.
It's as reliable as the MSM, in my opinion.
"Is Iran flying over Iraq to resupply these missles through Syria. If so, isn't it time to get some of our pilots up over Iraq and bring down these resupply aircraft?"
They are probably going through the mountains and moving it via ground through Iraq.
Directing artillery fire from an embassy is a bit of a no-no. I'd give a lot to see some U.S. "students" with USMC tattoos take that embassy over, just for old times' sake...
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