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| How high-tech Hizballah called the shots |
| 2006-09-10 |
| BEIRUT - Hezbollah's ability to repel the Israel Defense Forces during the recent conflict was largely due to its use of intelligence techniques gleaned from allies Iran and Syria that allowed it to monitor encoded Israeli communications relating to battlefield actions, according to Israeli officials, whose claims have been independently corroborated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "Israeli EW [electronic warfare] systems were unable to jam the systems at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, they proved unable to jam Hezbollah's command and control links from Lebanon to Iranian facilities in Syria, they blocked the Barak ship anti-missile systems, and they hacked into Israeli operations communications in the field," Richard Sale, the longtime intelligence editor for United Press International, who was alerted to this intelligence failure by current and former CIA officials, told Asia Times Online. The ability to hack into Israel's military communications gave Hezbollah a decisive battlefield advantage, aside from allowing it to dominate the media war by repeatedly intercepting reports of the casualties it had inflicted and announcing them through its television station, Al-Manar. Al-Manar's general director, Abdallah Kassir, would not comment on the information-gathering methods that had allowed it to preempt Israel's casualty announcements, but he admitted he was in constant contact with Hezbollah's military wing. |
| Posted by:elbud |
| #7 BP, such is the LA Slimes |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-10 20:03 |
| #6 This article is full of errors and as such nonsense. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-09-10 17:53 |
| #5 "they blocked the Barak ship anti-missile systems" It wasn't switched on. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-10 17:47 |
| #4 Article: Ultimately, Israel decided that the only way to neutralize them was to carpet-bomb the village, reducing it to rubble in the process. My feeling is that this account is fiction. I find it amusing that it quotes Gary Sick, a left wing nutjob hired by Jimmy Carter. This is the team that advised Carter to abandon the Shah. Amazing how these morons continue to have careers after screwing up in spectacular fashion. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-09-10 12:44 |
| #3 You can bet your ass that our good friend Putie is lurking in the shadows here. And, if he does step down in Russia, he will be active and dominant behind the scenes for years to come. We, in the west, simply did not realize the extent of technology transfer and training which has been proceeding at breakneck pace, thanks to the mountains of cash being transferred due to oil. Remember, we told the Russians to be capitalists. They are. They're selling every weapons system they have. And, they are creating the Arabic nuclear capability. They have probably provided working weapons that we know nothing about. It could be that this ongoing nuclear program is simply subterfuge to obscure Russian involvement once they start setting off nukes in the Western world. Got to make it appear that they have a native capacity so that we don't go after the Russkies immediately. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-09-10 12:44 |
| #2 Two or more can play the signals intercept game. Let them continue. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-10 12:36 |
| #1 Question, so who taught their camels to decode over the wireless? |
| Posted by: Uleasing Ebboluling2098 2006-09-10 12:33 |