Hezbullah denies removing long-range rockets from Shahabiya explosion site
Hezbullah is denying that it removed long-range rockets from an ammunition warehouse that exploded in Shahabiya, Lebanon last Friday.Hizbullah sources denied that party members removed long-range rockets from a suspected arms depot in Shehabiyeh and transferred them to other locations after several blasts and a fire in the three-storey building last week.Who's telling the truth? Well, now that we have English subtitles, let's go to the videotape.
The Israeli army said Sunday that it dispatched an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to film the scene following Friday's explosions and defense officials said the home was previously known to Israel as a significant arms cache used by Hizbullah fighters.
Hizbullah "does not comment on Israeli lies," the sources told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Tuesday.
The Israeli army said that some of the weaponry, which included 107 and 122 mm rockets, were taken to nearby homes and others to a mosque in Nabatiyeh.
Israel has warned that it will send the footage to the United Nations as evidence to a complaint it filed against Lebanon last week.
Israel's Foreign Ministry adds:
The building is a luxurious villa owned by a Hizbullah terrorist in one of the neighborhoods of Al-Shahabiya. This emphasizes the use made by Hizbullah of civilians to hide its activity in southern Lebanon, contradicting UN Security Council Resolution 1701. The building was known to the IDF as a weapons storage facility and is located in the heart of Hizbullah's operational apparatus in a wealthy Shiite area controlled by the organization. The building adjacent to the facility (from the south-west side) was used as a Hizbullah headquarters building up until the Second Lebanon War, during which it was destroyed.And now that 'Human Rights Watch' has another $100 million to investigate 'civilian casualties' in the next Lebanon war, what could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:24 PM
4 Comments:
blow them up....
Carl, when the Hezbullah sniper assissinated the commander of the IDF landscaping crew working on Israel's side of the UN approved border, you had photos of the Leb army interspersed with UN blue helmet guys overlooking the site.
Does the IDF have good enough imagery to ascertain whether UN and Leb army guys were helping to move the explosives to the mosque after the rich guy's mansion exploded in the work accident (and what is the "3 story building" next door that the IDF labeled in the video)? It would be one thing to keep a Leb army truck away, possibly anticipating more secondary explosions, and another to assume that no Leb army or UN people joined Hezbullah's work crew.
Sunlight,
In the video, there's a point where they show the LAF arriving and being turned away. I'm not aware of UNIFIL even showing up, but then they need an LAF invitation to go anywhere.
So it's pretty sure that none of the people who look like ants scurrying to move stuff are LAF or UN? The truck may have been turned away, but what about the people (even LAF or UN in civvies...)? Need to get that face and form recognition stuff spun up!
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