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| 05/05/2010 Israeli defense officials said on Wednesday that Syria has delivered advanced M600 rockets to Hezbollah in Lebanon within the past year.
The M600, a Syrian copy of the Iranian Fateh-110, has a range of 300km and carries a half-ton warhead. If fired from southern Lebanon it would be capable of hitting Tel Aviv.
Latest claims of arms transfers to Lebanon follow recent accusations by Israeli President Shimon Peres that Syria Hezbollah gave long-range Scud missiles, capable of inflicting heavy damage on Israel's settlements.
Other Israeli government figures, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, have since avoided repeating the claims and it is unclear whether Damascus could have delivered the 44-foot liquid-fueled missiles, handling which requires complex logistics, undetected.
Yet doubts over the Scuds have not masked growing fear in the Israeli defense establishment over Hezbollah's rapidly expanding arsenal. On Tuesday the Israeli army's head of intelligence research, Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, told the Knesset that the Scud transfer was the "tip of the iceberg".
"Even today Hezbollah has missiles of all ranges types, including solid-fueled rockets that have a longer range are extremely accurate," Baidatz told the Knesset's foreign affairs and security committee.
Baidatz warned that arms transfers were not sporadic but reflected long-term policy in Tehran and Damascus. "Syria and Iran carry out weapons transfers on a constant and structured basis in way that can't be described as simple smuggling - the transfers are official and well-organized," he said.
He added: "Hezbollah's long-range rockets allow them to position launchers deep within Lebanese territory and cover ranges far greater than we aware of in the past. The militant group was far stronger today than in 2006, when it fought a war with Israel," Baidatz said.
"Hezbollah in 2010 is very different to Hezbollah in 2006 in terms of military capability, which has advanced a great deal," he said, adding "Hezbollah is now regarded by the Syrians as a component of their defense establishment." |
2 comments:
Israel has made the mistake of allowing these fiends to arm without limit due in no small part to misguided US pressure. Meanwhile their puppet masters in Tehran work 24/7 on atomic bombs while the midget creep swaggers through the UN.
Anyone who expects peace in the near future is brain dead IMO.
Who knows how long these maniacs will be able to keep from pressing the button? I actually hope it's not much longer because in all probability the sooner this gets over with the smaller the destruction.
My big question is as to how Israel will react when missiles explode en mass in their large cities.
The unknowns and questions in my mind are endless.
This situation has bad, bad, shitty overflow in our faces written all over it.
Israel should never have taken even a single step toward appeasing these filthy totalitarian parasites.
Now they've just deluded themselves into actually BELIEVING their own comical hate propaganda.
(comical, were it were not so deadly serious)
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