These New Weapons Will Eventually Get into Gaza and the West Bank – They are more Important that Iran’s Nuclear Bomb!
May 17, 2006
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Iran, Syria, Hizbullah in Lebanon, and the many affiliated terrorist groups across the Middle East, are not preparing for a nuclear war they cannot win, but rather for a conventional war they can win. Iran’s real purpose for acquiring nuclear weapons is for a deterrent to Israel’s gigantic nuclear arsenal. I have never been afraid of a nuclear Middle East war, because it would be absolute insanity for the Arabs to start one, as well as unadulterated stupidity.
They do not want a nuclear war with Israel, but are rapidly preparing for a conventional one, actively testing their new weapons and training their guerilla forces at the same time across the Middle East for a conventional
war against Israel.
The major advantage the Islamic forces will have is without question numbers of troops and high tech weapons that destroy tanks, armored vehicles, and aircraft. Numbers have always been their advantage, and the one thing they don’t want is a nuclear war, which places them in a position of not only defeat but total destruction of their countries. The worldwide nuclear holocaust warning sounded after World War II is simply not going to occur. It has been proclaimed continuously in more than 95 percent of all prophetic books since 1948, but I don’t care if I am a minority of one, it is simply not true. God will use his creation to fulfill his own prophecies by his own power. He does not need man’s atomic bombs to fulfill his prophecies. Most horrendous scenarios in the writings of the prophets will be fulfilled by the finger of God in his cosmos, earth, and its atmosphere, which I have always labeled as the time of “Tectonic Chaos.” You will find the 36 chapters of “Tectonic Chaos” in our Archive Prophecy Updates, which I finished writing 30 years ago. Chapter one is Prophecy Update Number 179A and Chapter 36 is Update Number 230A.
The DEBKAfile Report, which follows, shows the increasing flow of more effective killing devices across their border into Iraq. The Islamic forces are gaining efficiency in the use of shoulder held anti-aircraft and anti-tank launchers on a day to day basis, as well as a selection of buried land mine devices.
Begin DEBKAfile Report
A Fresh Supply of Iranian Weapons for New Batch of Iraqi Shiite Terrorists
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 15, 2006, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the past two weeks, Iran has been pumping into Iraq
two types of extra-lethal weapons in very large quantities. They have already taken their toll in the shooting down of two military helicopters – one American and one British – and an estimated 19 deaths of US military personnel.
DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources estimate the delivery to Iraqi insurgents as consisting of around 1,000 SA-7 Strela ground-air missiles made in Iran, and a very large quantity of a newly-developed roadside bomb, loaded with compressed gas instead of ball bearings and cartridges, to magnify
their blast and explosive power.
The supplies have been distributed across Iraq – Basra and Amara in the south, Baghdad and its environs, Haditha in the west, and Mosul in the north.
The new bombs, developed jointly by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hizballah, have already gone into service with the Shiite terrorists on the Lebanese border with Israel.
Israeli military sources say it is only a matter of time before the deadly roadside bombs, already used in Iraq, will also reach Palestinian areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In Iraq, the new weaponry has had three major effects:
1. The guerrilla-terrorist groups which received the shoulder-carried, highly mobile Strela missiles have scored three hits in fourteen days. On May 6, they fired a missile from one of Basra’s crowded alleys and downed a British military helicopter, killing all four military personnel aboard.
Sunday, May 14, Iraqi insurgents shot down an American helicopter, killing its two crewmen over Yussifiya, inside the Triangle of Death south of Baghdad.
2. The number of roadside bomb attacks, their precision and lethality is going up all the time. Sunday, May 14, four US soldiers died in these blasts in the western Anbar province and Baghdad, while 2 British soldiers were killed and another injured at the same time near Basra.
In seven days, the British force stationed in southern Iraq lost seven men, a record for that space of time in the three-year war. In the first half of May, US troop losses spiraled to 19, most of them the victims of the new roadside bombs.
3. Together with the new Iranian weapons, a new array of Shiite terrorist groups has sprung up and is hitting American and British troops.
The coalition has imposed a blackout on this disturbing development.
Until now, the insurgent forces fighting the coalition consisted mostly of Baathists, Islamist and al Qaeda. The only Shiite enemy was the radical Mogtada Sadr and his Mahdi Army. The appearance of the new Shiite insurgents is a dread milestone in the Iraq war, one which has caught US and UK commanders by surprise and unprepared for the steep rise in troop losses.
DEBKAfile’s Exclusive Iraq sources offer some information on the new groups. One is located north of Baghdad and calls itself Brigades of the Imam Kazim. Another, called Brigades of Imam Ali, claimed the attack on April 27 in Nasiriya in which one of their new roadside bombs killed two Italian troops. In the Rostumiya region south of Baghdad, a Shiite group called Brigades of the Imam Hadi has begun operating. Our sources report that this group has been firing Katyusha rockets at American bases in the region, similar to the mortar attack directed at a British base in Amara Monday, May 15.
After each attack, these unknown quantities issue bulletins describing their actions, some accompanied by video footage from the scene of action.
The blackout was imposed on the new Shiite groups in the absence of American or British intelligence on who they and their commanders are, how they operate and what makes them tick. Research must start from square one to find out whether they are being controlled from Tehran, some Iraqi Shiite faction or elements which chanced to lay hands on the new-fangled weaponry.
End DEBKAfile REPORT
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