NOT A SURPRISE!
July 20, 2006
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops began coming into Lebanon more than four years ago. It should not be a surprise to anyone they are there fighting on the side of Hizbollah. I have long referred to southern Lebanon as “Little Iran” because of its strong Shiite makeup and its puppet head Nasrallah as one of Iran’s “Little Princes.” The article by Ira Stoll, Staff Reporter for the New York Sun, which follows, gives the details of what international intelligence services have known for more than four years.
I encourage you to read the Blog following it, which contains several articles going back to Archive Prophecy Update 74D, July 3, 2004.
Begin New York Sun Article
Hundreds of Iranian Troops Fighting in Lebanon
July 19, 2006
By Ira Stoll, Staff Reporter
The Sun
Hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel are on the ground in Lebanon fighting Israel, security sources say.
“I have no doubt whatsoever that they are there and operating some of the equipment,” an Arab diplomatic source told The New York Sun yesterday.
Another foreign source, based in Washington, said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps contingent in Lebanon is based in Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley. He said the troops usually number a few dozen, but that the size of the force increased in connection with the hostilities that have broken out between Israel and Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, over the past week.
The sources said the Iranians had directly operated a radar-guided C–802 missile that Iran acquired from Communist China and that hit an Israeli navy missile boat off the coast of Lebanon on Friday, killing four Israeli seamen.
“This was a direct message to the Israelis that we are fighting the Iranians here,” the Arab diplomatic source said.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s mission in Lebanon includes keeping custody of Zalzal missiles and drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles. A report by an Israel-based research group, the Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center, identifies the units of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard “deployed and active in Lebanon” as the “Al-Quds Force.” The Lebanon-based Iranian force “provides military guidance and support for terrorist attacks against Israel,” the report says.
President Bush has openly blamed Iran, along with Syria, for sponsoring Hezbollah, but he has stopped short of identifying the presence of Iranian troops in Lebanon. Tomorrow, a senior National Security aide to Mr.
Bush, Elliott Abrams, and the undersecretary of state, Nicholas Burns, will chair a meeting at the White House for at least 10 Iranian opposition organizations. The White House has hinted to those invited that President Bush may stop by.
The Iranian government has cheered Hezbollah’s actions while at the same time publicly denying the presence of Revolutionary Guards in Iran.
Clearing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from Lebanon has emerged as an unstated, but significant, Israeli war aim. Israelis also are hoping for tougher American and international sanctions on Iran and Syria as punishment for the Iranian and Syrian roles in Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and raining of missiles on Israeli cities.
The Arab diplomatic source described the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, as “totally subservient” to Iran. “How more forceful can I put it?” he said.
In New York on Monday, Senator McCain, a Republican of Arizona who sits on the Armed Services Committee, said the Iranians had supplied Hezbollah with arms, equipment, training, and 10,000 rockets. He said he did not see how Hezbollah would have captured Israeli soldiers without “the tacit agreement and maybe support of the Iranians.” And Mr. McCain said Iranians have “very heavily penetrated” southern Iraq, “including sending in terrorists” and equipment for the bombs known as improvised explosive devices.
The Hezbollah offensive against Israel followed a summit in Damascus. Reports vary on whether the meeting was attended by Sheik Nasrallah himself or
by one of his top political aides, Sheik Hussein Khalil. Others said to be present include the head of Syrian military intelligence, Assef Shawkat, and the Iranian national security adviser, Ali Larijani, who is one of the many high-ranking Iranian officials who have been shuttling between Damascus and Tehran.
The president of the Reform Party of Syria, Farid Ghadry, who opposes the regime in Damascus, said there are indications that Hezbollah and the Iranians and Syrians recently attacked a Lebanese army base, signaling they are expanding their campaign beyond Israeli targets.
http://www.nysun.com/article/36326
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Begin June 24, 2006 Blog
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Fingerprints on the Northern Border!
June 24, 2006
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The entire northern border of Israel from Lebanon across Syria now has Iranian Revolutionary Guards intermingled with Hizbullah and Syrian military forces. I expect to see more and more troops from the IRG flowing into the southern sections of Lebanon and Syria during the next couple of years.
Article 1 from YNET NEWS SERVICE
Hizbullah Returns to Northern Border
Hizbullah members return to outposts along border with Israel, which were attacked three weeks ago by IDF
Hanan Greenberg
Hizbullah members are rebuilding their outposts damaged in the IDF attack three weeks ago ,the army has said.
“This doesn’t surprise us. The night after the Air Force and tank attacks, we saw movement in the area, now they are rebuilding, and in some places upgrading,” an army source told Ynet on Tuesday.
“They have built towers, and begun to rebuild destroyed buildings. They have also set up watch positions, such a new watchtower in the Rosh Hanikra area. In some of the areas heavy equipment is being used, and some places are being improved,” the IDF source said.
Iranian fingerprints detected
The source added that like Hizbullah’s attack, Iranian fingerprints can be identified in the reconstruction. “There’s no doubt that some of the funding is coming from Iran,” he said.
The Northern Command is accustomed to seeing Hizbullah repair its outposts after IDF attacks. A similar pattern took place following the failed attempt by Hizbullah to carry out a kidnapping in November 2005.
“We are receiving instructions from the political leadership. All that has been asked to do – has been done,” the IDF source said, hinting that currently there was no order to “interfere” with Hizbullah’s reconstruction efforts.
“There are still a number of questions from the last Hizbullah attack, such as why they did not
attack Har Dov, like they did in previous attacks. It’s still unclear whether something changed in Hizbullah after the recent incidents, and what their intentions are currently,” the source added.
Article 2 from Middle East News Letter (MENL)
TEL AVIV [MENL] — Hizbullah has returned to its military outposts along the Israeli border.
Israeli military sources said Hizbullah has completed the refurbishing of more than a dozen military outposts along the Israeli border. They said Hizbullah brought reconnaissance equipment operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“We’re back to square one,” a military source said.
The sources said IRGC advisers have been seen participating in Hizbullah patrols along the Israeli border. They said this was the largest contingent of Iranian military personnel detected along the Israeli border.
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I first began to discuss the growing stress and inflow of Islamic troops along the northern border four years ago in 2002 in Archive Prophecy Update Number 74D, and issued a Supplement
to it a year ago on July 30, 2005.
Supplement to Archive Update 74D follows.
Begin 2005 Supplement
SUPPLEMENT TO ARCHIVE UPDATE 74D
July 30, 2005
More than three years ago I outlined the future scenario I believed the Hezbollah terrorist army in Lebanon would play in the future Jihad that will eventually be launched against Israel. The following article, by Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer, which ran in several newspapers this week, gives details of the current activities of this terrorist army in southern Lebanon.
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Dardanelle MBC
Iranian Cadres Training Hezbollah in Lebanon
By Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer
July 28, 2005
Iranian cadres are training Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, a State Department official told Congress on Thursday.
Assistant Secretary of State David Welch told the House International Relations Committee the information was provided by “our own sources.”
Welch also testified there was “a continuing covert Syrian presence there” despite the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. And, Welch said, there are armed Palestinian groups in Lebanon, as well.
He said the United States would have no contact with Lebanon’s energy and water minister, Mohammed Fneish, who is a member of Hezbollah.
Welch reiterated the long-standing U.S. view that Hezbollah is a terror
ist organization. The group is known to operate with weapons provided by Iran that are channeled to it through Syria, which borders Lebanon.
Asked by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., whether Iranian cadres were training Hezbollah in Lebanon, Welch replied, “Yes.”
Welch said the Lebanese army should extend its authority to southern Lebanon and the militia groups should be disarmed.
But on Wednesday, the leader of Hezbollah said no one can uproot the Shiite Muslim group. “The resistance in Lebanon is not an armed gang that can be hit or eradicated,” he told supporters in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Meanwhile, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora pledged to protect Hezbollah, saying the Lebanese government considers it “an honest and natural expression” of resistance to Israeli aggression and threats.
Representative Tom Lantos, D-Calif., called the statement “profoundly disturbing.” He said he was not aware of any Israeli threats to Lebanon.
Welch agreed. Challenging Saniora, whose government has the Bush administration’s support, Welch said, “There is no part of Lebanon occupied by Israel.”
“I don’t know what they would be resisting,” he said.
“Hezbollah admits its material support for Palestinian terrorist operations, which undermines the Palestinian leadership’s goal of stopping violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories,” Welch said.
2005 Article Ends
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