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Report: Israeli Military Activity along Lebanese Border
Reported: 23:15 PM - Jun/25/09
(IsraelNN.com) The Lebanese news agency NNA reported Thursday night that Israel was increasing its presence on the Lebanese border near Har Dov on the northern side of Mt. Hermon. It is not known if the activity is associated with Israel's transfer of control of the border village of Ghajar to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon or deterrence against a concrete attack threat, according to News One, which says the report has not been confirmed by any other source.
According to the report, tanks, armed personnel carriers and heavy equipment were involved. NNA said Israel has been carrying out reconnaissance flights since early Thursday morning and sporadic gunfire was reported from the Israeli side of the border.
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Fears Iran will use Hezbollah to hit back
Damien McElroy London
June 28, 2009
www.smh.com.au
THERE are fears of a new wave of international terrorism provoked by the reaction to the presidential elections in Iran, after the regime backed an expansion of the network operated by Lebanon's Hezbollah.
The warnings about global retaliation came after the US President, Barack Obama, and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, held a joint news conference at the White House in Washington calling for a halt to the Iranian Government's violent crackdown on demonstrators or face isolation.
Mr Obama said: "A government that treats its own citizens with that kind of ruthlessness and violence and that cannot deal with peaceful protesters who are trying to have their voices heard in an equally peaceful way I think has moved outside of universal norms."
Since the elections, Iran's leaders have criticised the West, blaming British and other foreign agents for inciting demonstrations, after presidential candidates accused officials of rigging the election.
Intelligence experts have warned that, rather than merely seeking to distract attention from its domestic turmoil with rhetoric, Iran will seek "retaliation" beyond its borders.
"Hezbollah has stretched, facilitated by Iran, across the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and Latin America," said Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Sweden's National Defence University. "Hezbollah has become more susceptible to Iran's efforts to project its influence."
Intelligence experts believe that Germany, where Hezbollah has about 900 operatives, is the most vulnerable location in Europe. "Hezbollah is capable of striking in Germany or planning an incident, like the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg that planned the attack on New York," said Alexander Ritzmann, a fellow at the European Centre for Democracy.
Hezbollah says it is a Lebanese political party, although it acknowledges that it maintains an arsenal of weapons as "resistance" against Israel. In recent months it has been implicated in weapons smuggling, assassination attempts and illicit smuggling schemes in other countries including Egypt, Azerbaijan, Belgium and the US.
Source: The Sun-Herald
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Last update - 19:16 27/06/2009
Syria threatens to take back Golan by force
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1095962.html
By Haaretz Service
Syrian officials threatened on Saturday to take back the Golan Heights by force if a peace agreement involving the return of the strategic plateau is not reached with Israel, Army Radio reported.
A group calling itself the Syrian Committee for the Freedom of the Golan said it would take steps to regain control of the territory, adding that Israel has not shown willingness to achieve peace or to return what they called "Syrian land."
The comments were made at the inauguration ceremony, attended by Syrian President Bashar Assad, for a new communications center in Quneitra.
"The communications center will report on the troubles of Syrian residents residing in the occupied Golan under barbaric and racist Israeli rule," Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal was quoted as saying at the ceremony, in a reference to Druze in the Golan who wish to live under Syrian sovereignty.
Last Sunday, Assad rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to resume peace talks between the two countries from "point zero."
Assad said the negotiations should resume from the point at which they stopped under former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, when the two sides had planned to formulate mutual commitments that would enable the talks to move to a direct negotiations stage.
The indirect negotiations stopped some six months ago, following Operation Cast Lead, and the announcement of early elections in Israel.
Israel gained control of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War. Syria insists that the basis for peace talks with Israel is a full withdrawal from the territory.
Report: Israeli Military Activity along Lebanese Border
Reported: 23:15 PM - Jun/25/09
(IsraelNN.com) The Lebanese news agency NNA reported Thursday night that Israel was increasing its presence on the Lebanese border near Har Dov on the northern side of Mt. Hermon. It is not known if the activity is associated with Israel's transfer of control of the border village of Ghajar to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon or deterrence against a concrete attack threat, according to News One, which says the report has not been confirmed by any other source.
According to the report, tanks, armed personnel carriers and heavy equipment were involved. NNA said Israel has been carrying out reconnaissance flights since early Thursday morning and sporadic gunfire was reported from the Israeli side of the border.
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Fears Iran will use Hezbollah to hit back
Damien McElroy London
June 28, 2009
www.smh.com.au
THERE are fears of a new wave of international terrorism provoked by the reaction to the presidential elections in Iran, after the regime backed an expansion of the network operated by Lebanon's Hezbollah.
The warnings about global retaliation came after the US President, Barack Obama, and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, held a joint news conference at the White House in Washington calling for a halt to the Iranian Government's violent crackdown on demonstrators or face isolation.
Mr Obama said: "A government that treats its own citizens with that kind of ruthlessness and violence and that cannot deal with peaceful protesters who are trying to have their voices heard in an equally peaceful way I think has moved outside of universal norms."
Since the elections, Iran's leaders have criticised the West, blaming British and other foreign agents for inciting demonstrations, after presidential candidates accused officials of rigging the election.
Intelligence experts have warned that, rather than merely seeking to distract attention from its domestic turmoil with rhetoric, Iran will seek "retaliation" beyond its borders.
"Hezbollah has stretched, facilitated by Iran, across the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and Latin America," said Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Sweden's National Defence University. "Hezbollah has become more susceptible to Iran's efforts to project its influence."
Intelligence experts believe that Germany, where Hezbollah has about 900 operatives, is the most vulnerable location in Europe. "Hezbollah is capable of striking in Germany or planning an incident, like the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg that planned the attack on New York," said Alexander Ritzmann, a fellow at the European Centre for Democracy.
Hezbollah says it is a Lebanese political party, although it acknowledges that it maintains an arsenal of weapons as "resistance" against Israel. In recent months it has been implicated in weapons smuggling, assassination attempts and illicit smuggling schemes in other countries including Egypt, Azerbaijan, Belgium and the US.
Source: The Sun-Herald
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Last update - 19:16 27/06/2009
Syria threatens to take back Golan by force
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1095962.html
By Haaretz Service
Syrian officials threatened on Saturday to take back the Golan Heights by force if a peace agreement involving the return of the strategic plateau is not reached with Israel, Army Radio reported.
A group calling itself the Syrian Committee for the Freedom of the Golan said it would take steps to regain control of the territory, adding that Israel has not shown willingness to achieve peace or to return what they called "Syrian land."
The comments were made at the inauguration ceremony, attended by Syrian President Bashar Assad, for a new communications center in Quneitra.
"The communications center will report on the troubles of Syrian residents residing in the occupied Golan under barbaric and racist Israeli rule," Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal was quoted as saying at the ceremony, in a reference to Druze in the Golan who wish to live under Syrian sovereignty.
Last Sunday, Assad rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to resume peace talks between the two countries from "point zero."
Assad said the negotiations should resume from the point at which they stopped under former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, when the two sides had planned to formulate mutual commitments that would enable the talks to move to a direct negotiations stage.
The indirect negotiations stopped some six months ago, following Operation Cast Lead, and the announcement of early elections in Israel.
Israel gained control of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War. Syria insists that the basis for peace talks with Israel is a full withdrawal from the territory.
