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2006-08-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hizbullah had British military equipment

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Kofi Asspeacher, where's your "moral clarity" here? Drowned perpetually in oily dish water.

Posted by Duh! 2006-08-21 08:19|| 2006-08-21 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 This is why we control the export of our NVG's so carefully. They will be able to tell very quickly where these things came from and if they even worked. Not knowing what set exactly they captured, it would be an easy bet that they are generations so old that they are not much good in the fight.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-08-21 10:49|| 2006-08-21 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately, these are very high quality and only a couple years old. They were transferred to Iran (from Britain)for drug interdiction from Afghanistan. They also had new Russian stuff. The Iranians have been spending lavishly due to oil revenues. And they have funneled the latest gear to the Hezbs. This is what wasn't well known. What baffles me is how they also got away clean with all the tunnel/bunker building while the UN was onsite as observers. They were clever and caught everyone flatfooted. Now tactics have to change.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-21 11:43|| 2006-08-21 11:43|| Front Page Top

#4 What baffles me is how they also got away clean with all the tunnel/bunker building while the UN was onsite as observers.

Couple big assumptions in that one, SOP. First that the UN was actually watching and second that they cared.

Actually, with the rebuilding Lebanon needed, I think it probably would have been fairly easy to do tunnels as well.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-21 11:45|| 2006-08-21 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Third assumption is that they weren't helping.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-21 11:59|| 2006-08-21 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 It's only a matter of time before we encounter the hundreds of Austrian Steyr .50 caliber sniper rifles sold to the Iranians also under the guise of drug interdiction. You never know when you will encounter 12th century tribesmen smuggling drugs using light armoured vehicles.

Posted by ed 2006-08-21 12:31|| 2006-08-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 From yesterday's thread: Brit hi-tech military gear given to Iran used by Hezb'Allah
Israeli officials believe the state-of-the-art equipment, found in Hezbollah command and control headquarters in southern Lebanon and used during the month-long Middle Eastern war, which claimed more than 2,000 lives, was part of a British-government-approved shipment of 250 pieces of gear sent to Iran in 2003 and intended to help Tehran track drug traffic on its borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Israeli military intelligence confirmed that one of the pieces of equipment is a Thermovision 1000 LR tactical night-vision system manufactured by Agema, a company with branches in England and San Diego.

Some info: http://www.privacy.org/pi/reports/big_bro/companies.html
Using the AGEMA Thermovision 1000 it is possible to locate humans on the ground when flying at height of at least 3000 feet and distances of at least 3km.

I assume the LR version uses even better optics for longer range detection.

Just another lionk in the long chain of funding and arming those who would kill us all.

Posted by ed 2006-08-21 12:46|| 2006-08-21 12:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's not forget that most of these arms deals come from countries whose citizens cannot own such armaments. It's the leftist mind set. Also, during the cold war, the manufacture and sale of guns all over the world was big business. There's prolly more AK47s than there are people. Just setting the table for the arrival of the twelvth Imam. What's his name ? I12 ? 12 cent ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-21 13:34|| 2006-08-21 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah comeon, guns have serial numbers.
The statement "May" is a crock, they either match the shipment's serials, or they don't.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-08-21 19:05|| 2006-08-21 19:05|| Front Page Top

#10 they either match the shipment's serials, or they don't.

I have strong doubts regarding Iran's ability to manufacture microchannel photomultipliers, so I'm betting on a serial number match.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-21 19:40|| 2006-08-21 19:40|| Front Page Top

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