Posted on 08/28/2006 10:16:36 PM PDT by jdm
JERUSALEM – Hezbollah, with the help of Iran, has started building underground war bunkers in Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to senior Lebanese officials.
During its 34-day confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel destroyed scores of complex Hezbollah bunkers that snaked along the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Military officials said they were surprised by the scale of the Hezbollah bunkers, in which Israeli troops reportedly found war rooms with advanced eavesdropping and surveillance equipment they noted were made by Iran.
A senior Lebanese official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told WND Hezbollah has started building a new set of bunker system, this time in Palestinian refugee camps.
"The Lebanese Army doesn't have the authority to patrol inside the camps," said the official. "Hezbollah knows it is safe there to rebuild their war bunkers, and they began doing so with Iranian help."
A second Lebanese official confirmed the information.
Palestinian groups, including Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, maintain armed bases in Lebanon, mostly in the al-Naemeh province just south of Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley, near Lebanon's border with Syria and Israel.
Several thousand members of the Lebanese Army began deploying last week in south Lebanon, taking positions vacated by Israeli Defense Forces troops, including outside the cities of Tyre and Bint Jbail, which contain large Hezbollah contingents.
Israeli officials say if the Lebanese Army's deployments continue on schedule and if an international force arrives, in line with a United Nations cease-fire resolution, Israeli forces can be withdrawn to within about one mile of Israel's border with Lebanese in 10 days. The IDF is maintaining, for now, some positions throughout south Lebanon. Israel also continues to impose a sea and partial air blockade on Lebanon.
The Lebanese government has stated its army will not confront Hezbollah or work to disarm the group. An agreement reached with Hezbollah last week allows the Lebanese militia to retain its weapons as long as it doesn't display the arms in public.
The agreement is in violation of the U.N. cease-fire resolution reached earlier this month that ended confrontations initiated when Hezbollah ambushed an Israeli patrol unit, kidnapping two soldiers and killing eight others.
The report from Lebanese officials of Hezbollah building new bunkers comes after Israel's Army Radio yesterday quoted security sources in south Lebanon saying Hezbollah dismantled 14 outposts near the border with Israel, removing rockets and equipment for transport.
According to Army Radio, Hezbollah members blocked entry to their outposts using bulldozers. Trucks then removed weapons and other munitions from the area. Vehicles also reportedly cleared furniture and equipment from the outposts.
A senior Israeli security official last week told WND Hezbollah members returned to south Lebanon in full view of the Israeli army, which is withholding operations in line with the cease fire. He said Hezbollah members were among the tens of thousands of Lebanese who returned to the country's southern villages after this month's cease-fire was imposed.
The official warned that Hezbollah maintains the ability to fire hundreds of rockets per day into northern Israel.
"Hezbollah's infrastructure in areas nearing the Latani (River) was not destroyed," the official said.
The official pointed to a volley of 240 rockets fired by Hezbollah one day before the cease-fire was imposed, the largest number the group has launched. One Israeli civilian was killed in the attacks; 26 others were injured.
"The message sent is that Hezbollah absolutely maintains the capability of firing hundreds of rockets per day into Israel," commented the official. "Wasn't one of the military campaign's main goals to eliminate the rocket threat?"
Just you wait, the UN won't do anything about this.
The MSM is convinced these are just "baby food factories" and HeadStart classrooms for "the children."
At this rate Hezbollah would need to fire over a 8 billion rockets in order to carry out their plan to wipe Israel off the map.
Glad Condie's ceasefire is working out so well /sarc
The way the Hezbos are flagrantly running a culture of death to "protect" their weapons with pali women and children, they are really now becoming synonomous with the zombie pirate guys in "Pirates of the Caribbean" (pick either or both of the episodes).
The way these scumbags operate they will be finished when they build schools or daycare centers over top of them. Hit em now.
ping
....Ceasefire about to go to hell!
Time to drop some more BUNKER BUSTERS.
Gee. This is such a . . . . surprise.
One more thing... bomb them when it will inflict the HIGHEST casualties to the workers. Eventually THEY will get the message that it is not safe for one's health to be building bunkers for the Hezbos and Iran.
yep , I totally agree .
Please suggest this to the IDF
The efforts by Iran to build another proxy state, this time in Gaza, has tinkled off the thugs who are currently fighting each other for control of the "Palestinian" "movement" (it's only a movement insofar as it is a big steaming pile, and the only Palestinians are the Jews). Syria's role in the Axis of Evil is a continuation of its role in the "Palestinian" "movement" in the past -- support a faction that is a proxy for Syria.
Al-Qaeda member: Hizbullah backed by evil.
(Sunni-Shiite Relations...terrorist cat fight ???? )
Ynet | 08.27.06 | Yaakov Lappin
Posted on 08/28/2006 11:52:37 AM EDT by IrishMike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691331/posts
A speech allegedly made by Sheikh Abu Abdul Rahman has surfaced on a jihadi pro al-Qaeda website in which Rahman is cited as condemning the "infidel Hizbullah" and "the most corrupted regimes of Syria and Iran."
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I LOVE IT!
Let's you and him fight! They hate each other almost as much they hate everyone else. Will the last muzzie standing turn out the lights?
What a country! The 15,000 man UN force does though. Doesn't it?
If we do it right, it'll be the political and military version of the Paradox of Zeno. ;')
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