Cast rock over dog pack: the one yelps loudest ate the Duck
New Southern Lebanon Commander Under Iranian Thumb
Any Hizbullah-Israel Conflict Must have Iranian Approval
Prime Minister Hariri vows he won’t give in to ‘Threats’
Iran & Hizballah Add to their early Israel War Plans!
Hizbullah Has Barked Loudest About Hariri Probe!
November 16, 2010
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IDF chief predicts Hezbollah takeover in Lebanon after probe
Askenazi tells Canadian hosts Nasrallah may seize power in Lebanon following publication of Hariri probe findings; says current PM, Jumblatt in survival mode
Yaov Z itu
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November 15, 2010
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi expressed concerns over the possible ramifications of
the UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Ashkenazi, who is visiting Canada, told his hosts Monday that the publication of the probe’s findings may result in Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah seizing power in Lebanon
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Iran, Hizballah upgrade war preparations, new Israel front line commander
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
November 13, 2010, 12:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah has quietly placed Hashim Safi Al-Din, his cousin and heir apparent, in command of southern Lebanon and its border with Israel, further upgrading Iran-backed preparations for an armed clash, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military sources report. This week, Safi Al-din was recalled from his post in Tehran as head of Hizballah’s Liaison Office and immediately assumed the reins from Sheikh Nabil Quouk,
the 2006 War commander.
Our intelligence sources say this appointment is the most ominous sign to date of the seriousness Iran and Hizballah attach to their plans for an early war with Israel.
Three further developments point in this direction:
Tehran, Damascus and Nasrallah are tensely watching the clock ticking for the UN Special Tribunal on Lebanon – STL to deliver indictments against top Hizballah officials before the end of this year or early January. Hizballah has threatened to block their extradition by seizing Lebanon’ s government and
strategic centers.
This action that could quickly ignite the inflammable Lebanese-Israeli border, an interconnection Hizballah’s leader eagerly embraced in his latest speech of Thursday, Nov. 11.
Shouting at the top of his voice, Nasrallah threatened to “chop off the hand that dared to accuse or detain members of the ‘Hizballah gendarmerie.'” He went on to yell: “We await the day the indictments will be released.” And in the same breath ranted, “We are ready for any Israeli war on Lebanon and will again be victorious, Inshallah. Whoever thinks that threatening us with another Israel war will scare us is mistaken. On the contrary, whoever speaks of another war is bearing good news not threatening us.”
Tehran views the newly appointed South Lebanon commander, Hashim Safi Al-Din, is its most stalwart partisan in the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah leadership since Imad Moughnieh passed away two years ago in an exploding car in Damascus. Safi Al-Din is therefore trusted most of all Hizballah’s leaders to do as he is told by Iran in a direct confrontation with Israel.
Iran did not get this sort of obedience in the 2006 War: Nasrallah went his own way regardless of strategic and military instructions from Tehran. For instance, he ordered Israeli towns and villages blasted by his rockets at the rate of 500 a day whereas Iranian experts wanted the rocket fire c oncentrated
on the Israeli troops driving into Lebanon.
To appease his Iranian sponsors, Nasrallah then appointed Mughniyeh war commander in the middle of combat.
But Tehran is taking no chances of any more insubordination from its proxy. Nasrallah will be kept in line by Iran’s obedient loyalist in the key command position in South Lebanon and Iran will stay in control of a future confrontation with Israel from the word go.
At the same time, the appointment of his cousin confirms Hassan Nasrallah as the Hizballah strongman capable
of bringing to fruition the ambition Tehran and Damascus cherish of establishing their man in Beirut as boss of Lebanon.
Hashim Safi Al-Din also enjoys Nasrallah trust. They also look remarkably alike. DEBKAfile revealed in an exclusive report in 2007 that Nasrallah was using his cousin as his look-alike to throw would-be assassins off the scent.
Their resemblance was close enough even to fool fellow members of Hizballah.
With Safi Al-Din’s appointment to the South Lebanese command, Tehran has deployed a troika for running the next war with Israel on its behalf: Nasrallah, his cousin and their direct controller, Iran’s own Al Qods Brigades officer Gen. Hossein Mahadavi.
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Lebanon’s Hariri vows he won’t give in to ‘threats’
(AFP)
14 November 2010
BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has vowed not to give in to ‘threats’ in a television interview, after his Hezbollah rivals ramped up rhetoric against a UN-backed probe into his father’s murder.
‘Nobody can threaten me to force my hand. I don’t act according to this logic.
I don’t give in to threats,’ Hariri told the Arabic-language service of Russia Today ahead of a two-day visit to Moscow from Monday.
‘I’m ready for calm and constructive dialogue, but if someone comes to me and puts a knife to my throat and tells me how to work, this is unacceptable, Lebanon is not like that,’ he said, according to a transcript of the interview provided by his office.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned on Thursday that his powerful Shia group would ‘cut off the hand’ of anyone who tried to arrest any of its partisans over the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
His comments were the latest in an increasingly heated campaign Hezbollah has launched to fend off
an anticipated accusation by the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon against its high-ranking members in connection with the killing of Hariri and 22 others in a Beirut bombing on February 14, 2005.
Saad Hariri accused Syria of his father’s murder in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, at a time when Syria dominated Lebanon politically and militarily.
He later dropped the accusation.
In his interview, Hariri described Lebanon’s relationship with Syria as ‘excellent,’ while cautioning that arrest warrants that Syria’s judiciary has issued against people close to him were ‘illegal.’
Leaders of regional powerhouses Syria and Saudi Arabia, which back Hezbollah and Hariri respectively, have met several times in an attempt to stem tensions in Beirut.
Western countries have stepped up their backing for the tribunal, with the United States announcing a 10-million-dollar donation to the court and both Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and Senator John Kerry visiting Beirut.
Analysts have warned the standoff could lead to the collapse of the government and a repeat of the 18-month political deadlock that degenerated into deadly clashes and brought Lebanon close to civil war in May 2008.
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