Lebanon assists Iran's rocket route to Israel, Updated

Everyone knows that Iran and Syria have been assisting the terrorist group Hezbollah by sending both soldiers and weapons to be used against Israel. What we have not known, for sure, is that Lebanon not only knows this, they have been assisting the flow of weapons from Iran, through Syria, into Lebanon, and into the hands of Hezbollah. They cannot act like the innocents in this conflict.

When "an Israeli Sa'ar 5 class missile corvette, enforcing the naval blockade off Lebanon, was struck by a C-802 radar-guided anti-ship cruise missile, an Iranian-made version of a missile known as the Chinese silkworm, it claimed the lives of four soldiers and the ship had to return to port. It was assumed "that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corp personnel stationed in Lebanon would assist Hezbollah in the technical operation of this equipment. What was a surprise is that "a Lebanese Armed Forces naval radar station was used and it was used to lock on the ship".

Twelve trucks crossed the Syrian border into Lebanon and rumbled south. When they were stopped at a checkpoint a few days later, the Lebanese Armed Forces found the trucks were brimming with ammunition and weapons, including Katyusha rockets that have been raining down on Israel since July 12.

What happened next, in this little-reported incident in late January, goes to the heart of the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. The convoy was waved on and travelled unhindered to its final destination: Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese army said the transportation and storage of ammunition belonged to the "resistance". Once inside Lebanon it was subject to a ministerial policy statement of the Lebanese Government, which considers the "resistance" to be legitimate.

"As the Government of Lebanon has confirmed, the Lebanese Armed Forces has thus not been authorised to prevent further movement of the ammunitions, which had been a common practice for more than 15 years," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a letter to the Security Council in April. "Hezbollah publicly confirmed that the arms were destined for the group."

It's this uninterrupted flow of weapons, mostly made in Iran, under the nose of the Lebanese Government, that has allowed Hezbollah to stockpile some 12,000 Katyusha rockets. Over the past 29 days of conflict, Hezbollah has fired more than 3000 rockets into Israel. (read more)

UPDATE: Hyscience is reporting further on the Lebanese military, "Lebanese Army Complicit In Attacks On Israeli Forces"

... if the Lebanese Army participated in attacks on Israeli forces, particularly early-on in the conflict, than the Lebanese Army is as much the enemy of Israel as is Hezbollah, and having putting the Lebanese Army in southern Lebanon, as suggested by Lebanon and the UN would be absolutely ludicrous, it would be like putting Hezabollah in southern Lebanon to keep Hezbollah from attacking Israel. Sound nuts? It is! No wonder Hezbollah was so quick to endorse it the plan. (read it all here)

Linked with Jan Kallberg, "Iran's rocket route to Israel"

Comments

[Mujahideen Ryder]

Wait, doesn't American send weapons to Israel to terrorize Palestine and now Lebanon?

Oh wait they are "defending themselves" from the big bad rockets of Hezbullah.

With all the tech from the US, Israel will still lose the War.

[shlemazl]

Just a sidenote: the deadliest "sagger" mortars used by Hezbollah have been made in Russia and sold to Syria.