Report: IAF struck Hezbullah weapons convoy in Lebanon
Foreign reports indicate that Israel's air force struck a Hezbullah weapons convoy in Lebanon around 3:00 am local time today.
Of course, the IDF has
refused comment.
A monitoring group also reported that a strike took place. Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told the German news agency DPA that Israeli warplanes fired at least six rockets on depots in the area of Qutaifa, north-east of Damascus.
It was not immediately clear if the targeted sites belong to the Syrian army or its allied Lebanese Hezbollah movement, he added.
The reports have not been officially confirmed.
The Israeli army said that the military does not respond to foreign reports.
Hezbullah chieftain Hassan Nasrallah has issued a number of threats against Israel recently, but he's been
warned by Arab states not to try anything. Here's betting that this doesn't draw him out of his bunker either.
Labels: Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbullah, Hezbullah weapons, IAF, weapons shipment
Iran's weapons ferrying service about to expand big time
For at least five years, Iran has been using commercial airliners from Mahan Air (an IranAir subsidiary from what I can gather) to ferry terrorists and weapons
from Tehran to Damascus. Now, thanks to the Obama-Kerry sellout and the lifting of sanctions Iran (having been blocked by Congress from purchasing from Boeing) is about to
buy 500 new jets from Airbus, the European consortium. Iran currently has 50(!) commercial jets. Imagine how much more trouble they can make with 500.
A report published by Forbes said Iranian commercial aircraft
routinely violate international aviation rules by transporting arms and
military personnel to Syria, and therefore, “selling aircraft to Iran
will expose manufacturers to the risk of becoming complicit in such
activities.”
Forbes said Iran was trying to ink a deal to buy up to 500 aircraft over the next decade.
The magazine said: “Iran remains the foremost state sponsor of
terrorism in the world and is still number one on the recently-released
Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index Report of 2016, which assesses the
risk of money laundering and terrorist financing in 149 countries.”
The report coincides with the comments of U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry, who expressed his country’s worries regarding Iran’s
transfer of weapons to Yemen.
Also, the international community is worried from an Iranian activity
towards refueling conflicts in Arab countries, which Tehran says was
protecting its security and national interests.
Last Thursday, Iran announced that a deal with Airbus was in its last
phases,” according to Fars news agency, quoting Iranian Minister of
Transportation Minister Abbas Akhoundi.
Forbes warned the Airbus Company to think twice before inking such a deal.
The report said: “The problem with the Islamic Republic’s aircraft
shopping spree is that Iran’s state-owned airline, Iran Air, will be the
sole company purchasing these aircraft.”
It said Iran’s current fleet
stands at 36 aircraft while its subsidiary, Iran Air Tours, has 14.
Mahan Air is considered the first Iranian company, which conducted flights to Syria for transferring weapons in 2011.
Yet another frightening installment in the Obama legacy. What could go wrong?
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Iran, Mahan Air, Obama's legacy, Syria, weapons shipment
Breaking: IAF jets hit weapons convoy on Syria-Lebanon border
Israeli Air Force jets have attacked a weapons convoy traveling along the Syrian-Lebanese border. The intended recipient of the weapons was
Hezbullah.
The attack allegedly occurred on the Syrian-Lebanese border earlier
in the afternoon and struck a number of vital positions important to the
terror organization.
Citing Arab media reports, Channel 2 said
that the Israeli Air Force struck the weapons convoy near a Syrian
"rebel safe-haven" where Hezbollah militants were allegedly stationed.
If the reports are confirmed, it would not be Israel's first
military excursion into enemy territory to stop the transfer of weapons
to its arch nemesis Hezbollah.
Last month,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged for the first time that
Israel has taken action dozens of times beyond the northern border to
prevent Hezbollah from attaining “game-changing” weaponry.”
Waiting to see if the IAF will try to stop the
transfer of the S-300 anti-missile system to Iran by Russia.
Labels: Hezbullah, Hezbullah weapons, IAF, Lebanon, S-300 missile defense system, Syria, weapons shipment
'Coordination'? Russia threatens to shoot down IAF jets targeting Hezbullah convoys
'Coordinating' with the Russians over Syria doesn't seem to be so much fun after all. According to
this story (translated from an Arabic original
here), the Russians have, in essence, threatened to shoot down any IAF jets targeting weapons convoys moving from Assad forces in Syria to Hezbullah in Lebanon.
“Moscow imposed on Tel Aviv a military coordination in advance for any
military operation carried against Syrian military targets or against
Hezbollah in Syria, to prevent any fatal accident. Senior military
officers on both sides will maintain regular meetings and contacts to
allow a smooth Russian military presence in Syria. Above all, Russia
would like to avoid shooting down an Israeli jet in case one of its
officers is hit by mistake while present in a convoy or in special
mission. Israel and Russia will also coordinate naval operations off the
coast of Syria, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, where there is a
large Russian naval base”, said a decision-maker source in Damascus.
You can bet that every weapons convoy to Hezbullah will now include a Russian officer.
According to the source, quoting a Russian envoy that referred
details of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “the promenade era of Israel
over the sky of Syria is ending. Israel agreed to stop hitting any
military target or convoy on Syrian land under any excuses or without
prior coordination with the liaison officers that will be established
starting form next October. President Putin opposed the U.S President
Barack Obama when he decided to hit President al-Assad. Therefore,
Netanyahu’s national security concern would be Russia’s priority. None
the less, Putin confirmed that Israel has the right to hit any military
convoy leaving Syria and entering the Lebanese soil if suspected of
carrying weapons to Hezbollah ».
“Russia is becoming the guarantor and the coordinator of rival
parties and countries, like Hezbollah, Syria and Israel as well as the
striking force against extremist groups the Levant, like Jabhat al-Nusra
(al-Qaeda in Sham) and the group called “Islanic State” (IS). Hezbollah
agreed to limit all military activities in Syria without hitting Israel
as long as the Russian forces are present on the ground and Israel
won’t hit Hezbollah in Syria” confirmed the source.
One has to wonder whether hitting such weapons convoys once they are in Lebanon is too late. That has been the presumed value all along of hitting them while they are still in Syria.
But the Russian intervention imposed a forced rhythm on the United
States and Europe to change the rules of the game. The international
focus needs to be orientated toward the fight against terrorism and not
to change Assad. With or without the Syrian President, ISIS and al-Qaeda
have no intention to leave the country. Therefore, the U.S current
method used to contain extremists by adopting a soft approach is not
successful. Russia believes a more rough methods are required and is
preparing to carry more raids in one single month, equivalent to nearly a
year of airstrikes carried by the coalition against terrorists”, said
the source.
In other words, because Obama never had a real policy, Russia will now 'have' to impose one. #ThanksObama.
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, Hezbullah, IAF, Iran, ISIS, Islamic State, Nusra Front, Russia, Syria, Syrian uprising, Vladimir Putin, weapons shipment
I wonder what it was carrying
Please do not expect the idiots in Washington to do anything about this.
Maybe they have some red paint to send Obama?
By the way, Abadan has a large Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base. You don't think they're shipping weapons, do you?
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Iran, Russia, Syria, Vladimir Putin, weapons shipment
There IS an 'anytime anywhere' provision in the Iran deal
There is an 'anytime anywhere' provision in President Hussein Obama's sellout to Iran. Unfortunately,
it's not the one you were hoping for.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said that he insisted
during the negotiations that Iran be able to purchase and ship military
hardware at any time and from any place, according to the comments made
on state-controlled television.
Araghchi vowed “to buy weapons from wherever possible, and [said that
Iran] is to provide weapons to whomever and whenever it considers
appropriate,” according to a translation of his comments made by the
Open Source Center.
...
“When they [the P5+1] said that they were not going to lift weapons
and missiles sanctions, or at least not immediately, we explicitly told
them that there could be no agreement because we will not sacrifice our
national security for anything,” Araghchi was quoted as saying during
the interview with an Iranian television network.
“With regards to our national security, our defense systems, and our
missiles systems, we are not even willing to negotiate, let alone
compromise,” Araghchi claimed he told the global powers in the
negotiating room.
Araghchi went on to insist that “if you want to have an agreement in
which sanctions imposed on us for weapons and missiles will continue,
then we will not agree.”
He continued: “Whenever we consider it necessary for our own
security, [or] to help our allies in the region we will provide weapons.
… We don’t feel shy. We will provide weapons to whomever and whenever
we consider appropriate. And we will buy weapons from wherever we can.”
This demand “was made clear to the other party,” according to the Open Source Center’s analysis.
...
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser and expert on rogue regimes,
expressed concern that less than a week after the deal was announced,
Iran is already challenging U.S. claims about what the agreement does.
...
“This nuclear accord will not bring peace; rather, it has simply opened
the floodgates to murder and mayhem on a scale the region hasn’t seen in
decades,” Rubin said. “The Iranians are basically saying they will
provide rocket-propelled grenades and explosively-formed projectiles
anytime, anywhere. Only when they say anytime, anywhere, they actually
mean it.”
So which version of the 'agreement' will be presented to Congress? The US one that the Iranians have disavowed, the UN one that the Iranians have disavowed, or the Iranian one that is a moving target?
What could go wrong?
Labels: arms sales, Barack Hussein Obama, Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iranian nuclear threat, John Kerry, United States Congress, weapons acquisition, weapons shipment
Report: Israeli jets struck military targets in Damascus
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An image from Arab social
media alleges to show an Israeli strike in Syria, Dec. 7, 2014. It was
not immediately possible to confirm its reliability.
Photo by Social Media
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Israeli jets allegedly
attacked targets around Damascus on Sunday evening. Israel has refused to comment on the reports. This is from Reuters.
"The Israeli enemy committed aggression
against Syria by targeting two safe areas in Damascus province, in all
of Dimas and near the Damascus International Airport," state television
said, adding that there were no casualties.
Residents
in Damascus said they heard loud explosions and opposition activists
posted photos online of jet streams in the evening sky and fiery
explosions. Syria's army general command said on state television that
there were "material losses in some facilities." It said the strike
benefited al Qaeda.
Syria's state
news agency SANA said the strikes were a "flagrant attack on Syria",
while the official news agency in Lebanon said Israeli jets breached its
airspace on Sunday.
A resident in the Damascus suburb of Qudsaya, close to Dimas, said the agricultural airport in Dimas was hit.
Dimas is in a mountainous area to the
northwest of the capital which is under government control and close to
several military installations.
The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the conflict through a
network of sources on both sides, said that 10 explosions were heard
near Dimas. It said that one missile hit a warehouse for imports and
exports at the Damascus international airport.
Haaretz
adds:
According to the reports, the Israeli air force flew at least 10
sorties over the Dimas area and attacked several military targets.
Residents of Damascus reported hearing loud explosions on the outskirts
of the city.
Al-Mayadeen, a pan-Arab television channel that is regarded as being
close to both Hezbollah and the Syrian regime, reported that Syrian
anti-aircraft batteries stationed at the airport had fired two missiles
at the planes during the attack.
...
"This aggression proves Israel's direct involvement in supporting
terror in Syria, along with other Arab and regional countries," the
Syrian military command said..
"The Israeli attack was designed to lift the morale of the terror
groups, primarily Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State, after the blows
they have received from the Syrian army."
Lebanese sources that the Israeli air force had been flying over
southern Lebanon since Sunday morning. It was not specified whether the
planes entered Syrian air space or fired from within Lebanese air space.
What this shows, among other things, is the weakness of the Syrian regime. At least ten sorties and they got off two anti-aircraft missiles in response? Cross them off the list of possible retaliators in the event of an attack on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Hmmm.
Labels: Damascus, Hezbullah, IAF, Iranian nuclear threat, Syrian uprising, weapons shipment
Security forces foil plot to assassinate Lieberman, weapons shipment into Jerusalem
Late Thursday night, Israel Radio reported that the General Security Service had foiled a plot to assassinate Foreign Minister
Avigdor Lieberman using rocket propelled grenades.
According to the indictment, the three were planning to buy RPG
missiles and then launch them at the foreign minister's car, in hopes
that the attack would stop Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
The terrorist cell was headed by Ibrahim Salim Mahmoud Zir, 37, a
senior member of Hamas who resides near Bethlehem and who served several
prison terms in Israel on charges of terrorism.
Zir enlisted his brother, Ziad Salim Mahmoud Zir, 35, and another
Hamas terrorist by the name Adnan Amin Mahmoud Tzabih, 31. They admitted
to being recruited to help carry out an attack against a senior Israeli
figure.
In addition, Zir turned to senior Hamas terrorist Ibrahim Yusuf
al-Sheikh, 50, a resident of Bethlehem who is known for his past
involvement in Hamas terrorist activities, and asked him to help him in
obtaining RPG missiles.
The three terrorists were caught while conducting surveillance on
Liberman's security guards near his home in Gush Etzion community of
Nokdim.
They were arrested in mid-August by security forces after one member of the squad was caught trying to buy the missiles.
Also on Thursday, a shipment of Christmas decorations headed for Jerusalem from the Ashdod port was found to contain a
deadly arsenal of weapons for delivery to Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
Two containers intercepted by authorities at the southern port were
packed with 18,000 fireworks, 5,200 commando knives, 5,500 tasers, 4,300
tasers concealed in flashlights, 1,000 swords and several thousand
other "cold" weapons.
The lethal cargo was hidden under a layer of Christmas decorations, and had been shipped in all the way from China.
I wonder how many of those fireworks would have been bought by Jews for Purim. Maybe that practice ought to stop too.
And I guess that China hasn't gotten out of the
terror financing business yet.
Labels: Ashdod port, Avigdor Lieberman, China, Jerusalem, Palestinian terrorism, Purim, weapons shipment
Shocka: Israeli Navy intercepts weapons bound for Gaza
Anyone who thinks that Hamas was going to stop trying to murder Israelis just because Israel destroyed thousands of buildings in Gaza was simply fooling themselves. A commander in Israel's Navy has told the Jerusalem Post that since the end of Operation Protective Edge, the Navy has
intercepted several weapons shipments that were included in 'building materials' headed to Gaza.
“We continue to see attempts to smuggle weapons or material to build
them. The sea is a very convenient platform for smuggling.
The terrorists still have one big smuggling tunnel, and it’s called the Mediterranean,” said [Cmdr. Eli] Soholitski.
Asked
if the blockage of smuggling tunnels that linked Sinai to Gaza could
lead to an increase in naval-smuggling attempts, Soholitski answered in
the affirmative.
“In the end, our area of coverage is very big.
This requires us to be professional and ensure that smuggling doesn’t
happen. We need to invest in technological resources to achieve this
and in people. There are no computers that can do this job without the
eyes of a navy controller. Nothing is automatic. People are central to
all of this,” he said.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Israel Navy, Operation Protective Edge, weapons shipment
So much for Israel's 'growing isolation'
So much for Israel's 'diplomatic isolation.' The government of Panama
consented to the search of the Klos-C, a ship under Panamanian flag that was carrying weapons from Iran to Gaza.
It turns out the operation had a far simpler legal basis than was previously evident: the ship’s flag state, Panama, consented to the operation.
Because a ship is legally an extension of the flag state’s territory,
that state has an absolute right to consent to search on the high seas.
Of course, nations have always been reluctant to allow interference
with their civilian ships. Moreover, flags of convenience like Panama
have about as much taste for allowing foreign security forces peeking
into their ships as the Swiss have for peeking into their banks. So
Panama’s cooperation is laudable. It is a happy example of a registry
state taking actual responsibility for what happens under its flag, and
yet another of many contradictions to the Jewish state’s alleged
“growing isolation.”
Heh.
Labels: Gaza, IDF, Iran, Israel Navy, Panama, Shayetet 13, weapons shipment
Final inventory of weapons ship posted
The big show won't be until Monday, when the government hopes to bring most of the foreign diplomats in the country to Eilat, but the IDF has already posted its
final inventory of the weapons discovered on the Klos-C - the Iranian weapons ship that was intercepted off the coast of Sudan this past week.
After detailed analysis carried out by the Engineering Corps, the IDF
found 40 M-302 rockets, with a range of between 90 to 160 kilometers,
hidden in crates.
The Klos C also carried 180 120mm. mortar shells and some 400,000 7.62mm. bullets.
“These
are advanced weapons that were intended to threaten the security of
millions of Israeli civilians. The IDF will continue in its mission to
prevent arms smuggling across the Middle East to various terrorist
organizations, under Iranian cover and funding,” the military said in a
statement.
Before being intercepted,
the ship was heading for Port Sudan, where the Iranian Quds Force had
planned to pick up the rockets and move them overland via Egypt and
into Gaza through smuggling tunnels, the IDF determined.
Thank God the IDF was able to stop this.
Labels: Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Jihad, Sudan, weapons shipment, weapons smuggling
Video: IDF soldiers board Klos-C weapons ship
Wednesday morning, the IDF intercepted an Iranian shipment of rockets to terrorist organizations in Gaza 160 kilometers off the coast of Sudan.
Israel Navy forces identified the target, and upon arrival requested to board. With the full consent of the crew, the IDF soldiers opened a number of containers on board the ship. They discovered a substantial amount of weapons hidden behind bags of cement.
Let's go to the videotape.
So how did they get the full consent of the crew. Apparently, the captain realized
he didn't have a choice.
As for the timing and location of the operation, the officer said
that various factors were taken into account, including the height of
the waves, “We were concerned that the ship's crew would think that we
were pirates, and that is why we identified ourselves from the outset as
the IDF, and when the captain looked right and left, he saw two Navy
missile ships, including additional vessels – and it was a show of force
he could not resist, and therefore the boarding of the ship was quiet.”
The officer said that the Turkish captain and the rest of the crew did not know that there were weapons on board.
Rumor has it that this is what the captain said when he was captured.
Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: Gaza, Gulf of Aden, Israel Navy, Sudan, weapons shipment
Israel sought to avoid confrontation with Iran over weapons ship
Reports indicate that the location chosen for the
interception of an Iranian weapons shipment to Gaza was chosen in order to avoid a
direct confrontation between Israel's Navy and Iran's.
The operation was performed very close to the ship’s destination,
possibly, in order to avoid potential confrontation with Iranian naval
forces operating in the area. In previous occasions Israeli forces have
struck missile convoys in Sudan, on their long journey north through
Egypt to Sinai. The Iranian Navy is routinely operates in the Gulf of
Aden, Bab-el Mandeb and the southern part of the Red Sea, where the
Iranian Navy’s 29th Fleet recently thwarted two piracy
attacks on an Iranian oil tanker sailing at the Red Sea. Last month,
Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced that
his naval forces have foiled tens of attacks by international pirates on
the country’s cargo ships and oil tankers. He noted that the Iranian
Navy warships have escorted some 2,000 merchant vessels and freighters in the same period.
According
to UN Security Council resolutions, different countries can send their
warships to the Gulf of Aden and coastal waters of Somalia against the
pirates. Linking the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the
Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Aden is an important energy corridor for
tankers transporting oil from the Persian Gulf to the West, via the Suez
Canal.
Hmmm. And they wonder why we don't just let them ship whatever they want into Gaza....
Labels: Gaza, Gulf of Aden, Iranian warships, Israel Navy, Sudan, weapons shipment
Breaking: IDF intercepts Iranian weapons ship headed for Gaza
The IDF
intercepted a massive Iranian weapons shipment to Gaza early Wednesday morning.
Last night, following extensive preparations, and on the government’s
authorization, the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General
Benjamin (Benny) Gantz, ordered the Israel Navy to intercept the Klos-C,
upon which the illicit arms were concealed in between commercial cargo.
IDF special naval forces boarded the vessel, in accordance with
international law, and carried out a preliminary inspection of the
cargo.
They discovered numerous advanced weapons during the inspection.
The Navy is currently sailing together with the cargo ship back to Israeli shores.
It will be interesting to see how President Hussein Obama reacts to this, because I am sure that Prime Minister Netanyahu did not tell him about it, and it's obviously been in the works for a while.
It's also interesting that one of the stops was an Iraqi port. Looks like Obama's decision to flee from Iraq was really smart.
/sarc
UPDATE 2:27 PM
Here are more
details.
The IDF's elite Shayetet-13 naval commando raided a ship off the shores of Sudan before dawn Wednesday. The ship, which flew a Panamanian flag, carried dozens of B-302 missiles that have a range of up to 200 kilometers.
The raid took place in the Red Sea, between the waters of Sudan and Eritrea.
According to initial information, the shipment originated in Syria.
The missiles were then taken aboard planes to Iran, and then made their
way on the ship to Sudan. The missiles were hidden with sacks of cement.
The IDF Spokesman's Unit said that it knows with certainty that Iran
is behind the shipment. The IDF soldiers are all safe and they are
currently guiding the ship toward Eilat.
The IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, supervised the raid alongside Navy Commander, Maj. Gen. Ram Rotberg.
The IDF noted that the ship's captain tried to fool the IDF by first navigating toward Iraq, and only then toward Sudan.
The missiles were headed to terror organizations in Gaza, said the
IDF. They were to be offloaded in Sudan and then smuggled to Gaza
through the Sinai.
The ship is named Klos C. It had an international crew of 17, who are now being interrogated.
Sounds like the
Karine HEY HEY HEY!
Labels: Gaza, IDF, Iran, Iraq, Syria, weapons shipment
Here we go again: Report claims IAF hits Syrian base in Latakia
Reports coming out of Lebanon claim that the
IAF bombed a Syrian military base in the port city of Latakia on Monday morning.
The Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport in
the north of the country, Lebanese journalists reported Monday morning.
There are currently no other confirmations of this report.
Senior
Israeli officials have clarified on several occasions that Israel will
not allow the transfer of advanced weapons from Syria to Hezbollah,
which they fear will bolster the militant Shi'ite group's ability to
attack Israeli targets.
Two
weeks ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that Israel is
operating to thwart the transfer of weapons, even if such reports are
not made public. He was relating specifically to the threat posed by
Hezbollah to Israeli naval ships by precise missiles.
According
to various reports in foreign media, Israel attacked weapons depots in
the Latakia area in the past, though Israel has not confirmed such
reports. Last November, U.S. sources reported that Israel was behind an attack on Russian SA-8 surface-to-air missiles near Latakia.
Heh.
Labels: arms shipments, Hezbullah, Hezbullah weapons, IAF, Latakia, Syrian air space, weapons shipment
Report: Iran shipping arms to Hezbullah via Iraq
A report in a Kuwaiti newspaper says that Iran is
shipping arms to Hezbullah via Iraq to avoid alleged Israeli air strikes that plagued the shipments when they went through Syria.
The Al-Siyasiya newspaper, which has expressed support for
the Syrian rebel forces, quoted a top Iraqi official in the report on
Wednesday. According to the anonymous official, Iran and Assad's forces
signed an agreement in front of Iraqi government officials changing the
route of weapons supplies to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The agreement stated that weapons would be re-routed through Iraq's
national airport; the official claimed that the deal was made to allay
fears of intervention from Israel and Western powers.
"The preferred route for arms shipments from Iran and Syria to
Hezbollah has always been through the border between Syria and Lebanon,"
according to the official. "[However], due to recent events, there is
concern that arms transfers will be prevented by Israeli Air Force (IAF)
planes, which are frequently in the region."
The source claimed that arms transfers via the new route began over
two months ago, when officials launched the first attempt to smuggle
weapons to Hezbollah through Iraq. The smugglers made their way with the
weapons from Baghdad's International Airport to the Beirut-Rafik Hariri
International Airport, the source claimed, and then delivered the
weapons to Hezbollah armories.
Something tells me this route won't last much longer either. The IAF knows quite well how to get to Baghdad... and Beirut....
Labels: Baghdad, Hezbullah, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, weapons shipment
Report: IAF destroys Syrian weapons shipment to Hezbullah
If this is true, it's big. The Kuwaiti newspaper
aj-Jarida is reporting that the
IAF destroyed a weapons shipment from Syria to the Hezbullah terror organization on Tuesday.
The paper’s story, which quotes a senior Israeli official, has not been
confirmed by any other news source. There was also no word on whether
the attack took place on Lebanese or Syrian soil.
...
The Kuwaiti daily also reported last Friday that Israel has
information on the location of long-range missiles transferred from
Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon and is considering taking military action
to destroy the weapons.
The paper, quoting an Israeli security
source close to Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, reported that the
remote-operated missiles, with a range of 1,500 kilometers, were made in
China and further developed in Iran.
According to the source, the missiles are being stored by Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the veracity of the report.
And why would an 'Israeli official' speak only to a Kuwaiti daily? Just askin'.....
Labels: Bekaa Valley, Hezbullah, IAF, Syria, weapons shipment
Oh my: Ship carrying arms to Syrian rebels splits in two, sinks
A ship that was reportedly carrying arms for Syrian rebels has reportedly
split in two and sunk (Hat Tip:
Bad Blue).
MOL Comfort (ex APL Russia) sank due to yet unclear reasons, sailing
from Singapore to Jeddah and after that to North Europe, leaving behind
hundreds of drifting containers and a huge aftershock hitting liner
sector and all of the maritime industry.
Even the scale of the consequences is hard, impossible, to estimate,
not to mention consequences themselves. This is the 1st case in liner
sector, when modern ocean-going liner container vessel (built in Japan!)
sank in the ocean after breaking in 2 parts, like a poorly built and
managed bulk carrier or over aged coaster. Nothing like this ever
occurred, and no one believed it was possible, even theoretically. It
just could not happen, but still, here it is.
At present stage, even the weirdest theories of the real cause of
this accident can not be ignored, something like explosion or several
explosions, or whatever else one may fantasize.
Putting aside some exotic versions, most likely causes that come into
mind are some basic design and building faults; serious disbalance of
the loaded containers weight due to false cargo weight declarations and
faulty cargo plan; faulty ballasting of the container ship. Most
probably, if that’s the case, the sinking was caused not by just one of
the above-mentioned factors, but by their combination, and triggered by
rough weather.
More
here.
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Free Syrian Army, Iran, Nusra Front, Russia, Syria, Syrian uprising, weapons shipment
Breaking: IDF refuses comment on report of attack on Syrian airbase Sunday night
The IDF says it has
no comment about a report on a Syrian television station that it attacked a military airbase west of Damascus on Sunday night. A rebel group has taken responsibility for the attack.
The IDF was not commenting on a report on a Syrian TV station associated
with the rebel forces that Israel attacked on Sunday night the military
airbase Al-Miza, West of Damascus, Israel Radio reported. The report
noted that a rebel organization had taken responsibility for the attack
after the explosion to took place on Sunday night.
The TV
station reported that Israel bombed advanced weapons and radar systems
that were recently brought to the airport, according to Israel Radio.
Eye
witnesses said that the explosions were large and that neither the
Assad regime nor the rebels had the capability to create explosions of
such a magnitude.
Hmmm.
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, Free Syrian Army, Hezbullah, IAF, IDF, Iran, Nusra Front, Syria, Syrian uprising, weapons shipment
