Satellite images confirm Syria’s support of terrorists
Posted by editor-at-large on 1 June 2010 at 7:14 pm UTC
By W. Thomas Smith Jr.
The Times Online is reporting: “Hizballah is running weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, from secret arms depots in Syria to its bases in Lebanon, according to security sources.”
But according to Dr. Walid Phares – director of the Future of Terrorism Project for the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies – this is fact, but hardly the stuff of breaking news.
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Indeed, we’ve been reporting the Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah weapons connection for three years.
In a January 2008 piece for Townhall.com, we reported–
“’Weapons and money are flowing across the border from Syria into Lebanon,’ says Al Sayed Mohammad Ali El Husseini, a former Hezbollah deputy commander-turned-outspoken critic of the organization. ‘The money comes in U.S. dollars.’
“According to Husseini, there are two ‘specially designated military aircraft’ that operate in-and-out of the Damascus airport. ‘Those airplanes are for the IRGC, and they are never inspected,’ he says. ‘The sole purpose for those planes is to fly between Iran and Syria. They bring both weapons and money: The money is in very large bags similar to what you might ship potatoes in. The money never comes in suitcases because the suitcases could not carry enough.’
“The weapons and money, he adds, are then loaded onto trucks and transported over a military route that has existed since the time of Lebanon’s Syrian occupation.”
Phares and others have been reporting the same for longer than that.
Now the Times says it has “been shown satellite images of one of the sites, a compound near the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus, where militants have their own living quarters, an arms storage site and a fleet of lorries reportedly used to ferry weapons into Lebanon.”
So the revelation from satellite images may be the news.
The piece continues, “The military hardware is either of Syrian origin or sent from Iran by sea, via Mediterranean ports, or by air, via Damascus airport. The arms are stored at the Hizballah depot and then trucked into Lebanon.”
Truth does have a way of surfacing despite the best efforts of the terrorists’ sympathizers, apologists, and paid propagandists to quash it.
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