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“Gaza: A Joint Iran-Syria Production”
By Dr. Walid Phares
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 22, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
“1. In Lebanon, the Tehran-Damascus axis has had as its goals to crumble the Seniora Government, cripple the Lebanese Army, and crush the Cedars Revolution. To accomplish these, two approaches have been taken:
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a) Terrorism: The assassination of MP Walid Eido in Beirut, other bombing attacks including car-bombs targeting and killing civilians.
b) Fatah al Islam attacks against the Lebanese Army in Nahr al bared and Tripoli in the north.
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In Lebanon, the axis is expected to launch more terror attacks. We are looking at all Syro-Iranian assets in Lebanon, monitoring which ones will be deployed to battle next, and when.
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2. The axis has also been involved in Gaza where they surprised observers with their decision to throw Hamas fully against Fatah and the PA in the enclave. The plan to seize control of Gaza was projected a long time ago. But the timing was at the discretion of the Syro-Iranian war room, which funds and strategically controls Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
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The heavy fighting in Gaza represents an important decision made by the regional masters: The acceleration of the axis offensive so that by the end of summer, four battlefields will be fully ignited against the U.S., its allies and regional democracies: Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza (Palestinian territories). But just as important is the fact that an entire Taliban-like zone has been established on the eastern Mediterranean under Hamas control and with Syro-Iranian backing. Our expectations are that, short of a large-scale counter-operation aimed at dislodging the “coup” in the enclave, the area will become a massive terror base of operations.”
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“Ex-governor rearrested in Mexico, may be extradited to U.S.”
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 22, 2007 | Dudley Althaus
Posted on 06/22/2007 5:28:55 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MEXICO CITY — Mexican police rearrested a former governor Thursday as he was released from prison with the intent of extraditing him to the United States to face cocaine-trafficking charges.
Mario Villanueva, 58, who governed the Yucatan Peninsula state that includes the resorts of Cancun and the Riviera Maya from 1993 until 1999, was arrested at dawn, moments after finishing a six-year sentence here for money laundering.
He faces federal charges in New York of taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle as much as 200 tons of cocaine into the United States while governor of Quintana Roo state. Much of the cocaine was smuggled through South Texas, authorities said.
U.S. officials accuse him of receiving at least $30 million from members of the Juarez Cartel in exchange for providing political and police protection.
The organization was Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking gang in the mid to late 1990s until the death of its boss, Amado Carrillo Fuentes. The cartel underling who allegedly paid Villanueva was sentenced to 47 years in prison in Mexico on Tuesday.
Villanueva’s probable extradition comes as President Felipe Calderon’s government struggles to bring Mexico’s powerful drug gangs to heel.”