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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria, Iran arm Hezbollah with improved missiles: US
2010-04-28
Two days after Foggy Bottom says that Hezbollah didn't get any Scuds ...
And last Thursday Hizb'allah said they got the Scuds but they were so old and decrepit as to be useless, so why is Israel fussing?
28 April 2010 WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday accused Iran and Syria of arming Hezbollah with increasingly sophisticated rockets and missiles, saying the militia's arsenal undermined stability in the region.

"Syria and Iran are providing Hezbollah with rockets and missiles of ever-increasing capability," Gates said at a joint news conference with his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak.
Oh, so Secretary Gates didn't just spontaneously speak out on the subject, he got a show'n'tell from his Israeli counterpart.
"And we're at a point now, where Hezbollah has far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world,
A point, that.
and this is obviously destabilizing for the whole region and we're watching it very carefully."
Posted by:Steve White

#1  WAFF > EXPERT:IRAN, NOT ISRAEL, WILL START THE WAR. Argues that

* ISLAMIST IRAN is the de facto SOLE BIG BOSS = EL-HEFE OF THE "MIDEAST AXIS OF EVIL".

* IRAN is covertly providing its proxy HEZBOLLAH + OTHER LEBANON-BASED MILITANT GROUPS WID ADVANC LR ROCKETS NOW SCUDS? [700-mile range] becuz it desires Hezb to be able to strike MAJOR ISRAELI TARGETS FROM LEBANON ESPEC THE MAIN ISRAELI NUCPLANT AT DIMONA/DEMONA.

* IRAN will likely use HEZBOLLAH, etc. Lebanon Militants to mil strike at Israel first before it employs its own Armed Forces includ IRGC for war agz Israel.

* SAME > IRAN HIGH LEADER ISSUES STRAIT OF HORMUZ WARNING TO US. Warns that iff Iran is attacked, the People-Armed Forces of Iran will "CHOKE THE THROAT OF THE US/WEST" via the Mil-led cut off of any and all US-WEST OIL SUPPLIES TRANSITING SAME.

* TOPIX > ITS NOW SYRIA'S TURN? + HEZBOLLAH TO CONTINUE ACCEPTING ARMS + HEZBOLLAH: WE NEED ARMS FOR RESISTANCE [agz Zionism, Israel, defense of Islam-Muslim, + agz the US].

* WMF > CHINA'S OKINAWA/MIYAKO FLEET ACTION ONCE SHOWS THAT CHINA IS NO LONGER ON THE DEFENSIVE IN RELATION TO TAIWAN AND DISPUTED CHINA SEAS ISLANDS. PLA MILITARY CONFRONTATIONS AGZ REGIONAL POWERS AND US TO INCREASINGLY OCCUR.

** PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM [2005 Artic] > US INTELLIGENCE: PAKISTAN WILL BECOME A "FAILED STATE" BY 2015, as due to
* COMPLETE "TALIBANIZATION"
* CIVIL WAR
* ETHNIC, INTER-PROVINCIAL RIVALRY = VIOLENT SECTARIANISM.
* PERENNIAL GOVT. WIDE CORRUPTION, NEPOTISMS.
* FACTIONAL, INTERNAT STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF PAK NUC WEAPONS.


** TOPIX > VARIOUS > SOUTH ASIA NOW THE HUB/CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-04-28 23:33  

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