Iranian weaponry flowing out to Syria, Hizbullah, Hamas, and Taliban produced miniature Iranian states in Southern Lebanon and Gaza!
June 14, 2007
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The flow of Iranian weaponry into the Hizbullah, Hamas, and Taliban terrorist forces has led to the creation of little Iranian states in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
Hizbullah controls southern Lebanon, and now Hamas controls the Gaza Strip. Iran is now supplying military weapons to their former enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan, to drive out the American and NATO Forces for the glory of Shiite Islam. Iran is providing arms to Shiite forces in Iraq to drive out the Americans and the British. There is no question that the Shiite Muslims are attempting to eventually install a Caliphate Empire from Morocco to India and from Turkey to Sudan and Yemen. They are flooding this area with Iranian military technicians and equipment, and providing war training camps within their own country for those who would join their cause from Islamic states.
Once we pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, it is just a matter of time until both governments will fall to fanatical Islamic fundamentalists, and the two countries that we rescued, will turn against us, and be part of the destroying force that comes against Israel.
The two articles which follow, from the Jerusalem Post, describe the immediate scenario stage of the latest developments in Iran’s drive to build a Caliphate Empire.
It is out of the development of such a great Caliphate that the Antichrist will arise. Article 3 is from DEBKAfile.
It gives the events of the last few days that led to the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas.
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‘Iran, Syria pushing Hamas to take Gaza’
JERUSALEM NEWSWIRE
By Stan Goodenough
June 13, 2007
The Iranian regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Syrian ally Bashar el-Assad are fueling the inter-“Palestinian” violence in the Gaza Strip.
So insinuated Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman Tuesday, after trying to get Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to get his people to agree to a ceasefire.
A senior Fatah official was more explicit, telling a London-based Arab newspaper that Iran and Syria have poured millions of dollars into Hamas’ coffers, and the money is being used to establish a Hamas state in the Gaza Strip.
Tehran is a serious exporter of radical Islam and scorns the so-called moderate Muslim regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. The goal of the mullahs is to establish a Shi’ite-run Middle East.
US Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns told CNN Wednesday Iran is funding insurrection all across the Middle East – including the Taliban in Afghanistan, Hizb’allah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that “if Gaza falls into the hands of Hamas it will have regional implications.”
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At least 14 killed in battle for last Fatah stronghold
By JPOST STAFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEH, AND AP
June 14, 2007
Hamas fighters overran Fatah-allied Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday, a key target in their battle to control the entire Gaza Strip, witnesses and a security agency official said.
One witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, said Hamas gunmen were bringing Preventive Security men out of the building and executing them in the street.
Moments after the key security command was taken over, aides said that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave his first order to his elite presidential guard to strike back against Hamas rivals.
However, PA officials told the Jerusalem Post that no decision had yet been made and that a meeting between Abbas and his security officials had not yet reached its conclusion.
Nevertheless, the PA officials said that Abbas was expected to officially pull Fatah out of the PA unity government.
The coup de grace to Fatah sovereignty occurred a day after 35 Palestinians were killed in factional fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, Fatah operatives called on Abbas to order a move from defense to offense, “even at the price of thousands of dead Palestinians,” to avoid losing the Gaza Strip to Hamas.
The call to Abbas Thursday morning came after Fatah officials urged Abbas to resign Wednesday night. Fatah members have grown increasingly angry at what they termed Abbas’s failure to order a strong counter-attack to Hamas and a lack of clear-cut orders.
More than 70 people, most of them militants, have been killed in the three days since Gaza slid into civil war.
Early Thursday, five more casualties were added to the tally.
“There will be no dialogue with Fatah, only the sword and the rifle,” Nezar Rayyan, a top Hamas leader, told Hamas radio on Thursday.
“This is a battle between Muslims and non-believers, and God willing, we will lead the Friday prayer in the president’s office, and transform the [Fatah-controlled] security complex into a big mosque.”
During the morning’s fighting, retreating Fatah forces tried to prevent further Hamas entrenchment by blowing up their abandoned positions in central Gaza. However, Hamas said it had seized from Fatah thousands of M-16 and Kalashnikov rifles and pistols, communication equipment, armored vehicles, trucks, binoculars, military outfits, tents, sleeping bags, hand grenades, mortars and documents.
Hamas gunmen were seen driving some of the confiscated vehicles that have been decorated with Hamas flags and signs.
Pictures of the weapons were posted on a number of Hamas-linked Web sites. “Most of the weapons came from Egypt and Jordan over the past few years,” a senior Fatah official told The Jerusalem Post. “They did not come directly from the US, although the Americans had initiated the supply of weapons and ammunition.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of Fatah men asked Israel to help them flee the Gaza Strip through Gaza seaport, one of the last locations in the Strip still held by Fatah Thursday morning, for fear they would be executed by Hamas gunmen if they remained in Gaza.
Article 3
Hamas Poised to Convert Captured Gaza Strip into Islamist Enclave
June 14, 2007, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
14 June: Hamas seizes control of strategic Philadelphi enclave on Egyptian border and all Gaza’s border crossings with Egypt and Israel. At least 35 people died in the fighting Wednesday. Any international force in Gaza will be resisted in the same way as an Israeli occupation army, said a Hamas spokesman Thursday, June 14.
Senior Israeli officers described the Hamas victory to DEBKAfile as a greater misfortune for Israel than its Lebanon War setbacks. There, Hizballah was forced by Israeli military action to accept a UN ceasefire and international peacekeepers.
Hamas has no such incentive. In the case of Gaza, the winner takes all and can dictate terms. A radical Islamic enclave with a dominant Iranian-Syrian military presence has sprung up unopposed as a hostile reality on Israel’s southwestern border. It has made the Israeli-Middle East Quartet’s boycott an irrelevance.
The Hamas Executive Force completed the seizure of all pro-Fatah Presidential Guard border positions, including the Karni goods crossing and the Sufa, Kerem Shalom and Rafah transit points, after midnight Wednesday night, June 14.
Their commander Col. Musbah Basichi and his 60 officers fled to Egypt. At least 35 Palestinians were killed in fighting Wednesday.
Hamas pounced as Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert held a belated conversation with the UN Secretary-General B an Ki-moon on the deployment of
an international force on the Philadelphi route. Hamas leaders flushed with victory will hardly accept such hindrance to the free flow of smuggled arms, missiles and explosives into the Gaza Strip.
Israeli military and security personnel administering the crossings on the Israeli side will have to work cheek by jowl with Hamas operators. The Israeli government, which decided to stay out of the Hamas-Fatah conflict, must now decide whether to break off ties with Hamas-controlled Gaza and seal the crossings, or interact with the new masters in order to admit emergency supplies for 1.4 million Gazans.
13 June: Overnight, thousands of Palestinian security officers loyal to Fatah were under Hamas siege at their last bastions – Gaza City’s Presidential Guard compound and the General Security command.
They are running out of food, water and ammunition. Hamas and its Executive Force had overrun some 80 percent of the Gaza Strip, while loyalists of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, including complete clans, surrendered and turned in their weapons. Hamas has set up large prisoner camps, some on the rubble of the Gush Katif villages. Wednesday afternoon, a desperate Abbas appealed to Israel to permit arms and ammunition to be transferred from the West Bank. Israeli officers said it was too late. Fatah is a lost case and any arms crossing into Gaza will be seized at once by Hamas.
Israel decides to stay out of the Palestinian internecine war in Gaza.
Prime minister Ehud Olmert led the cabinet in a decision Tuesday night, June 12, to avoid “fighting on the side of the pragmatists against the extremists.” Olmert said an international force is worth considering
for securing the Philadelphi border enclave of the Gaza Strip against further arms smuggling. DEBKAfile: This would replicate the situation in South Lebanon where UNIFIL troops have been helpless to halt illegal gunrunning to the Hizballah from Syria. The UN Security voiced concern over this traffic only Tuesday, June 12.
12 June: DEBKAfile reported Hamas’ seizure of Gaza’s main south-north highway in fierce fighting with many casualties, most Fatah.
By borrowing this Israeli tactic for bisecting the territory to contain terrorists, Hamas shut in Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Guard, which has not yet been thrown into battle, and choked off ammunition re-supply routes to Fatah fighters. To tighten their control, Hamas units also commandeered high rise rooftops.
Hamas then gave Fatah till Friday noon to surrender their arms or become wanted men under sentence of death. Abbas called the situation “madness.”
UNWRA has cut down its personnel in Gaza after two aid workers were killed.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas’ planning and combat tactics clearly betray the professional hands of Syrian and Hizballah officers who have set up a command center in the Gaza Strip.
DEBKAfile’s Military sources: Iran and Syria are the winners of Hamas’ military coup against Fatah in Gaza Strip
It was the second triumph in a week for a Palestinian force backed by Iran and Syria, after the Lebanese army failed in four weeks’ combat to crush the pro-Syrian factions’ barricaded in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp near Tripoli.
Tuesday, Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Palestinian Authority forces faced disaster.
Their inevitable ejection from the Gaza Strip effectively severs Palestinian rule between Ramallah, where Fatah will have to fight to retain control of the West Bank and Gaza, dominated now by an Islamist Palestinian force manipulated from Tehran and Damascus.
The Iran-Syrian alliance has acquired by brute force two Mediterranean coastal enclaves in northern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
Its momentum, launched a month ago in both sectors was unchecked. The Fouad Siniora government’s troops failed to break through to the Palestinian camp and crush the pro-Syrian uprising. The Olmert government stood by unmoved as the most radical elements in the Middle East snatched the Gaza Strip on Israel’s southwestern border.
The Bush administration is finding itself forced out of key Middle East positions, its main assets Siniora and Mahmoud Abbas trounced on the battlefield.
Israel’s technological feat of placing the Ofeq-7 surveillance satellite in orbit Monday quickly proved ineffective against the sort of tactics Tehran and Syria employ: mobile, suicidal Palestinian terrorists, heavily and cheaply armed with primitive weapons, who are winning the first round of the Summer 2007 war and preparing for the next.
11 June: DEBKAfile reported: The brutal civil strife has brought the fragile Hamas-Fatah unity government to closure.
The War Crimes Prosecution Watch has condemned rival Palestinian factions fighting in Gaza for attacking civilians, prisoners and hospitals.
Senior Palestinian politician Saab Erikat warned the “Mogadishu syndrome” is overtaking Palestinian Gaza. “If war and lawlessness are not extinguished, the fire will burn us all”
The outcome generated by the civil war is the separation of Palestinian rule between Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-led West Bank.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Hamas threw its entire 5,000-strong Executive Force armed with mortars, RPGs, heavy machine guns and grenades into the final bid to conquer the Gaza Strip, whereas Fatah commanders’ desperate appeals to Mahmoud Abbas for reinforcements drew nothing but a futile call for a ceasefire.
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