Kuwait’s al-Rai daily says Lebanon-based group, Syrian army have created a joint military command, dividing potential war fronts.
By Jack Khoury and The Associated Press
The Lebanon-based Shi’ite militant group Hezbollah and the Syrian army have initiated a significant military cooperation in joint preparation for the possibility of a future armed conflict with Israel, the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai reported on Monday.
The report came as Syrian president Bashar Assad urged Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier Monday to support Hezbollah and maintain calm in the divided country.
Speaking with al-Rai Monday, sources have indicated that Hezbollah and Syria have formed a joint headquarters meant to orchestrate the cooperation between the two forces, which is to be commanded by two officers – one from the Syrian military and one from Hezbollah.
Recent exchanges between the two organizations reportedly included trading information regarding strategic sites within Israel, including airports and other facilities, as well as dividing up the prospective war fronts between themselves.
The two organizations also reportedly shared information gather by Hezbollah following the Second Lebanon War in 2006, including military conclusions and tactics.
Earlier Monday, Syria’s Assad urged Lebanon’s leader to support Hezbollah and maintain calm in the country.
The two leaders met in Damascus for a pre-dawn meal called suhour, the last meal before the daytime fast resumes for the holy month of Ramadan, the Syrian state-run news agency reported.
Hariri has visited Damascus repeatedly this year in a sign of Syria’s renewed influence over Lebanon in the years since Damascus withdrew its military in 2005, ending a nearly three-decade hold on Lebanon. Hariri’s visits indicate that he needs Syrian support as his Western-backed coalition struggles at home.
Syria backs the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which has a large role in Lebanon’s fragile national unity government.
Last week, street battles in Beirut between the Shiite militant Hezbollah and a small Sunni group killed three people, exacerbating sectarian tensions in Lebanon. Later Monday, Hariri was expected to head the first meeting of a new committee formed to discuss ways of ridding the Lebanese capital of weapons.
“Enemies are endeavoring to damage Lebanon’s solidarity and unity, but Lebanese’ resistance groups will thwart their plots and conspiracies with their tact and promotion of solidarity,” the Iranian president added.
I tried to find out more info of potential information regarding international connections to the Beslan massacre but all I could find it a few articles linking training in hostage taking in a school gym through a NGO/organisation designated by the US mere days after the Beslan massacre on September the 9th as a major Chechen terrorist front in Bosnia and links to Bosnia in Russia to those who helped carried out the attack.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/84302/thread/1283292334/last-1283292334/Was+the+Beslan+massacre+organised+and+rehearsed+in+Bosnia-
Much easier to link all the connections to Chechnya and 9/11 and try and prove that Atta and the 9/11 hijackers were part of a international Chechen intelligence terrorist network were pretty much in every instance there is a Chechen connection even to the post were the famous Phoenix memo warning of terrorist attacks prior to 9/11 the source they interviewed had photocopied pictures of Osama Bin Ladin, Khattab and wounded Chechen mujahadeen on his living room wall.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1171.pdf
So I will try and do a post on that one in the run up to 9/11.
@jack:So I will try and do a post on that one in the run up to 9/11.
That would be most appreciated since I also plan to write a piece on 9/11 on the 11th.
Thanks a lot!
Jack, I look forward to an explanation as to how Chechen guerillas in Bosnia, or any other small faction, anywhere, for that matter, could have outsmarted the most heavily protected coastline on earth, and trumped the most hyper-reactive air force in the world.
I imagine myself in Bin Laden’s [or a Chechen counterpart’s] place, with his several dozen acolytes, planning a dramatic attack on the mainland US.
The absolute last thing I’d have thought of by way of plan to inflict mortal pain on the US would have been the hijack of commercial US air liners, knowing, as any informed “terrorist” should, that the chances of success would be close to zero. It’s the last thing I’d have thought of.
By no means would such a guaranteed-to-fail plan have entered a clever “terrorist” mind.
So, the next question is, ‘Who was in a position to trump the US Air Force and shut down the surface to air missile system which is in place, precisely, to defend the DoD?
This is where the matter gets a bit thorny, and where Bin Laden and Chechens become wholly implausible suspects. Nice, colorful, targetted fronts — Atta and his passport were hot, hot! They made great faux news. New links between the “hijackers” to a man called ‘Kamal’, too, would be supremely effective.
Endless possibilities. This is the whole point.
No investigation. Destruction of evidence. Free-for-all pretext to attack, destroy, occupy and threaten, at will.
Who benefited from these attacks, then, Jack?
@VINEYARDSAKER:
You should check out Dennis Hopsickers at Mad Cow Morning News who has done the best research regarding Atta and the 9/11 hijackers and there connections to the CIA, drug trafficking and organised crime in Florida.
http://www.madcowprod.com/archive.html
The things I will be highlighting will be exclusively on the hijackers themselves highlighting main stream news articles court cases and defence journals 100% proof/facts not junk that 9/11 truthers obsess on like thermite bringing down the WTC towers or if a missile hit a Pentagon or any of this other nonsense might even reveal a few facts you don’t even know about.
@Anonymous
I meant that the 9/11 was part of a western intelligence network established in the Balkans during the 90’s and that the hijackers were originally recruited to fight (as admitted even by the 9/11 Commission report as regards to Atta) in Chechnya hence why they were in the US in the first place not that Bin Ladin and the Chechens pulled of 9/11.
The evidence of this is overwhelming.
Although it is entirely possible that Chechens could have been recruited from Bin Ladin Chechen camps in Afghanistan just like foreign Arabs from Chechen camps in Khost were to pull of the Embassy bombings in Africa in 98 working through Saudi-Chechen terrorist front NGO’s in 98.
(I was going to post the links confirming this but I can’t be bothered to look for them unless you want me to?)
Who benefits from 9/11?
Israel
@jack: not junk that 9/11 truthers obsess on like thermite bringing down the WTC towers
While I look forward to your comments, I have to tell you that I consider myself a committed “truther”, that I am 100% convinced that the towers were brought down in a controlled demolition. I don’t recall “obsessing” about this, but I have to candidly admit that I am quite fascinated by it all.
As for the putative hijackers, assuming they ever boarded these planes (there is no proof of that), they played exactly the same role as Van der Lubbe or Oswald.
As for al-Qaeda, by the way, it pre-dates the war in Bosnia by many years, it has its root in the CIA and Saudi covert war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. It is following the end, of sorts, of this war that the CIA established the “database” of Wahabi crazies which it then used for years, including in Bosnia, that is quite true, and on 9/11. To assume that somehow al-Qaeda turned against its former masters in Langely and then attacked the USA on 9/11 without the CIA being fully aware of these plans is, I would say, only something a person which does not the realities of the intelligence world could buy into.
But the fact that some elements of the CIA or, more accurately, the US “deep government” used the Wahabi crazies on 9/11 just as they had in the past in Afghanistan and Bosnia, does not mean that al-Qaeda had the means to pack WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7 with thermitic material. That had to be done by people with clearance and access.
But more about that in a couple of days ;-)
@VINEYARDSAKER
It will never be proven that thermite was used as all the evidence the metal debris from the WTC was shipped of as scrap to China and other countries. Plus if the WTC was rigged to blow up on 9/11 wouldn’t there have been suspicious activity prior?
The weakest link in the narrative is the 9/11 hijackers themselves which it is already proven the hijackers story is bogus.
I think Mohammed Atta himself was a BND intelligence asset.
The 9/11 trail lead back to Bosnia were a Bosnian government official operating out of Vienna through TWRA NGO transferred money to Atta in New York.
According to Srdja Trifkovic he commented that the US was running Jihadist training camps in the US including Shanksville were the plane crashed.
There was actually meant to be a 5th plane hijacked in London and targeted the House of Commons I think but due to lockdown on flights on 9/11 they were unable to board a flight so operation was aborted and the hijackers were later arrest by India police which I actually forgot about.
I will need to look into that to see if any good info comes out of it.
On the history of Al Qaeda
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20907