The IDF has been able to thwart the mobilization of over 10 terror cells based in the Sinai Peninsula, Director of Military Intelligence Major-General Aviv Kochavi told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.
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In a briefing to committee members, Kochavi said that the IDF currently has multiple would-be terror infrastructures under surveillance.
According to Jerusalem sources, the growing terror infrastructure in Sinai was one of the subjects discussed during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as
The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Philander C. Knox...
's visit in Israel and her Monday meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
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The military has been able to thwart several attempted terror attacks by Sinai-based terror groups.
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Still, forces of Evil have used machine guns, rockets and explosives against Israelis on several occasions lately, one of which claimed the life on an Israeli working on the new Israel-Egypt border fence.
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Deployment in the sector was increased following the deadly terror attack by an Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror cell on a bus traveling on Highway 10, in the summer of 2011. Nine Israelis were killed.
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Turning his attention to Syria, Kochavi said that in all likelihood Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's regime will not survive the uprising.
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"It may take more time, I can't give you an exact number, but it will happen," he said.
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The MI chief further warned that the security concerns evident in Sinai may soon echo in the Golan Heights, as a result of the Islamic Jihad's tighting grip on Syria.
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Still, Kochavi said that chances of an imminent armed conflict between Israel and Syria are low.
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Meanwhile,
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the IDF has reported a significant increase in the number of youths slated for service in MI, with the corps' recent officers training growing by an impressive 25%.
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Military Intelligence sources attributed the change to the recent strategic upheavals in the Middle East and the "birth" of new intelligence arenas, including Turkey, Soddy Arabia
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and Sinai.