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Wednesday June 20, 2007
A Lebanese army officer said
Wednesday the military was now in full control of the new part of Nahr al-Bared.
"All of the buildings in the new part of Nahr al-Bared where the terrorists
were dug in have been taken, and one could say fighting has stopped in this
area," an army officer told AFP.
Lebanese
troops earlier on Wednesday were clearing out the remaining pockets of
resistance in Nahr al-Bared, Future TV said.
It said the army’s artillery
continued shelling the southern front, cornering diehard militants in what has
been known as the "old camp," a small segment on the southern tip of Nahr
al-Bared.
Lebanese helicopters fly after firing at targets at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, June 19, 2007. (Loay Abu Haykel/Reuters)
Arab League Secretary-General, Amr Moussa, left, meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, right, at the government house in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday June 19, 2007. Moussa began a three-day visit to Beirut on Tuesday to hold meetings with rival politicians in an attempt to help find a solution to the political crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Tuesday June 19, 2007
- Exclusive Report
EXCLUSIVE - “Al Anbaa called MP Walid Eido 15 mins prior to his assassination: the court…”
Bush says all options on table on Iran
Tue Jun
19, 2007 12:47PM EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush reiterated on Tuesday that all options were on the table in dealing with Iran's nuclear challenge.
At the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bush was asked if military action remained an option for dealing with Iran.
"My position has not changed. All options are on the table. I would hope that we could solve this diplomatically," he replied.
Bush said it was important that Iran faced "consequences" such as sanctions and other economic measures for defying the international community over its nuclear program. "There's a price to be paid," Bush said.
The
United States accuses Iran of seeking to build atomic bombs, a charge Tehran
denies.
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Russian Mig-31E to Syria with Iranian Money
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Russia to sell large batch of jets to Syria on Iran’s money
UN - Security
Council Video Briefing - Lebanon
UN -
Spokesperson’s Noon Briefing Questions and Answers
UN - Security
Council Statement to investigate murder of Walid Eido
UN -
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING 18 June 2007
UN - SG
STRONGLY DEPLORES ROCKET ATTACK ON ISRAEL
UN - SECURITY
COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON LEBANON
Levant Watch
BULLETIN No.197 - Levant News
Elias Bejjani
Syria, Iran behind firing rockets on Israel
Lebanon:
Syria’s opponents remain targets
Walid Phares
Syro-Iranian massacre of politicians in Lebanon
Elias Bejjani
No peace w/o international forces along borders
Standing up
to killers: Syria must answer for its murders
MEMRI - Saudi
columnist in scathing criticism of Hezbollah and Syria
Syrian and
Iranian Generals in Intensive War Consultations
Recent
killings of top Lebanese figures
Profile: The
Late Beirut MP Walid Eido
UN Security
Council statement condemns Beirut terrorist attack
Statement by
Sec Condoleezza Rice - Assassination of Walid Eido
Moscow
Releases Nuclear Fuel for Iran’s Bushehr Reactor
UN Security
Council Meeting - 1559
Levant Watch BULLETIN No.196 - Levant News
Briefs
1140 GMT -- ISRAEL -- Former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak took over as defense minister June 19. He
replaces former Defense Minister Amir Peretz, who was widely criticized for his
handling of the conflict with Hezbollah.
1135 GMT -- ISRAEL, PNA --
Israeli tanks June 19 entered the Gaza Strip near the Erez Crossing, close to
where nearly 150 Palestinians have been trapped since attempting to flee Gaza
when Hamas took over. An Israeli army spokesman said the army entered to protect
the crossing, where a security officer loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas was shot down and several others wounded June 18.
Russian MiG delivery for Syria
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:25:58 |
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Rosoboronexport signed the contract with Damascus at the beginning of the year, Russia's online daily Kommersant reported Tuesday. Syria is receiving planes from the reserve of the Russian Air Force that are being modified to the purchaser's specifications because production of the MiG-31 was halted in 1994. “Export orders are starting to come in for the MiG-31. We are offering the MiG-31E on a trade-in basis for countries that have the MiG-25 interceptor,” deputy general director of the state MiG Russian Aviation Construction Corp. Vladimir Vypryazhkin told Kommersant on Monday. Libya and Syria are the only countries that have MiG-25 fighter-interceptor and recognizance aircraft at present. India recently retired its MiG-25s. MiG-31E fighter-interceptors are being sold abroad for the first time and are similar in their technical specifications to the MiG-35 model Russia is now offering India. The total value of the contract for the MiG-31 and MiG-29M/M2 aircraft is estimated at $1 billion. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was in Moscow last December for negotiations with his Russian counterpart, during which he expressed willingness to replace the country's aging MiG-25 planes with the version of MiG-29 or MiG-31. HRF/BGH |
Two more Lebanese soldiers were killed on Tuesday during intense fighting with Fatah al-Islam militants holed up in the northern refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, an army spokesman said.
A man at right fires a gun as the coffin of Lebanese Army soldier Mohamad Farouk Halag, 23, is carried to be buried in a graveyard in the village of Nabey Yisha in northern Lebanon, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Halag was one of three Lebanese soldiers killed Monday by an explosion in the Palestinian Nahr el-Bared refugee camp. Lebanon's army continued to battle al-Qaida-inspired fighters in the camp on Tuesday as the troops inched toward the militants' strongholds. Officials said two more soldiers were killed in the fighting. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Smoke trails from projectiles are seen during fighting in the Palestinian Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Lebanon's army battled al-Qaida-inspired fighters in the camp in northern Lebanon on Tuesday as the troops inched toward the militants' strongholds. Officials said two soldiers were killed in the fighting. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Monday June 18, 2007
Three Lebanese soldiers
were killed in clashes with Fatah al-Islam terrorists in north Lebanon's Nahr
al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp.
A
previously unknown militant Islamic group which calls itself the "Jihadi Badr
Brigades-Lebanon Branch" claimed Monday responsibility for a rocket attack on
Israel and vowed it would continue its attacks on the Jewish
State.
A previously unknown
militant Islamic group which calls itself the "Jihadi Badr Brigades-Lebanon
Branch" claimed Monday responsibility for a rocket attack on Israel and vowed it
would continue its attacks on the Jewish State. Naharnet
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Damascus ordered Sunday's Katyusha attack on N. Israeli Kiryat Shemona, causing no casualties. But there is more to come
June 17, 2007, 11:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
A Katyusha rocket that did not explode in Wadi Taibeh north of Israeli border |
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The three 107mm rockets fired against Kiryat Shemona from Wadi Taiba Sunday, June 17, by a Palestinian radical group called Ansar Allah based in the Ain Hilwa refugee camp near Sidon was ordered by Syrian military intelligence as the first in a series,DEBKAfile’s military sources report. Hizballah intelligence officers supplied the rockets and pinpointed the launching site to make sure they struck the Israeli town. Residents rushed for bomb shelters for the first time since the Lebanon War ended eleven months ago. A factory and parked vehicles were damaged.
The hit squad drove up in a rental Toyota, rigged the rockets and drove off.
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that Syria and Hizballah are preparing an escalating series of rocket barrages against norhern Israel civilian and military locations in the coming weeks. It is a stage in an overall plan orchestrated by Tehran, Damascus and Hizballah to stage attacks in Lebanon, Israel and Palestinian territory. Its objectives are to destabilize the pro-Western Siniora government in Beirut and whittle down Israel’s deterrent strength.
Rocketing Kiryat Shemona was Stage 3 of the plan. Two rockets damaged a factory and a parked vehicle in separate parts of Kiryat Shemona. A third landed near a UNIFIL position inside Lebanon.
Stage one is the five-week old radical Islamic, pro-Damascus uprising in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, which the Lebanese army has not yet subdued. Stage two was Hamas’ just-completed capture of the Gaza Strip from Fatah and the Palestinian Authority.
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that in the name of “restraint,” Israel’s government and military leaders refrain from connecting the dots of the campaign ahead and its links to Tehran and Damascus in time to foil it, in the same way as they glossed over Hizballah’s build-up for the 2006 Lebanon war.
According to our intelligence sources, a former Fatah officer called Jamal Suleiman is Ansar Allah’s leader. He moved to Damascus in the 1980s and returned to the Ain Hilwa in Lebanon in April loaded with cash. He then began recruiting for his Ansar al Allah, working to exactly the same Damascus-designed format as the Fatah al-Islam was embedded in the northern camp of Nahr al-Bared.
If Israeli leaders refuse to call a spade a spade, Fatah leaders are more outspoken. Sunday, Azam al Ahmad declared in an interview in Ramallah that the perpetrators of the crime [against the Palestinian Authority in Gaza] are the same people who sent assassins to murder the Lebanese politician Rafiq Hariri, “Both come from the same hand [Syria],” he said.
Onlookers stand at the scene of a rocket attack in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona June 17, 2007. Two Katyusha rockets hit Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on Sunday, the Israeli army and police said. It was the first such attack since last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. REUTERS/Haim Azulay (ISRAEL)
A Lebanese army officer speaks on his mobile as he stands near a rocket apparently left behind by guerrillas at the alleged site where rockets were fired into northern Israel from an area between the southern Lebanese villages of Adaisseh and Taibe. Militants in Lebanon fired rockets into northern Israel for the first time in 10 months, with the army saying a Palestinian organisation was behind the strike, without naming it.(AFP/Ali Dia)
A Lebanese army officer shows journalists a Katyusha rocket found in a field of olives in Taibeh village, southern Lebanon, June 17, 2007. Two Katyusha rockets hit the nothern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on Sunday, the Israeli army and police said. Witnesses in south Lebanon said a Lebanese army patrol found the launch site near Taibeh where one of the Katyusha rocket apparently failed to launch. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher (LEBANON)
Indonesian U.N. peacekeepers, stand in front of an unfired 107 millimeter rocket that was set to be launched to Israel, in the southern Lebanese village of Taibeh, at the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanon, Sunday June 17, 2007. The Lebanese army discovered a rocket that was set to be launched Sunday on Israel and prevented it from being fired, shortly after three were launched and two landed in the Jewish state, Lebanon's military said in a statement. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Israeli soldiers prepare mobile artillery units by the Israel-Lebanon border, near the northern town of Kiryat Shmona June 18, 2007. Suspected Palestinian fighters in Lebanon hit a northern Israeli town with two Katyusha rockets on Sunday, Lebanese and Israeli officials said. Israeli forces did not retaliate and the government made clear it wanted no escalation into another border war. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, pictured 03 June 2007, on Sunday for talks which focused on the fallout from Hamas's bloody seizure of Gaza and the situation in southern Lebanon.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)
Newly-appointed prime minister Salam Fayyad (R) shakes hands with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (L) during the swearing in ceremony of the new emergency cabinet in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas swore in a new cabinet on Sunday and outlawed Islamist Hamas fighters after their violent seizure of Gaza, as Israel came under rocket fire from Lebanon in a new front to the crisis.(AFP/Abbas Momani)
A flash is seen as a Lebanese Army tank fires at a building during fighting in the Palestinian Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli, Lebanon, Monday, June 18, 2007. Fierce fighting erupted in and around the besieged camp in northern Lebanon on Monday as Lebanese troops resumed bombardment of al-Qaida-inspired militants barricaded inside. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, walks with Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah and Syria Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa at the Ash-Shaeb presidential palace Monday June 18, 2007. Al-Sabab flew in earlier in the day for talks with Assad on regional issues, especially the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Iraq. His visit is part of a three-nation Arab tour that would take him to Jordan and Egypt .(AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).
Sunday June 17, 2007
Shocking: NBN TV Gloats about Assassination
Iranian and Syrian Funded NBN TV Gloats about the Assassination of MP Walid Eido. Nabih Berri Network is the TV station of Nabih Berri, he is the leader of Amal, his movement is supported, funded, trained and many believe directed by Syria and Iran.
Watch this Shocking Video and let us all consider what Syria and Iran are really doing in the Lebanon.
Also to those who conspire with Syria and Iran, "There can be No Peace and Stability without Justice" (Z.Kalilzad 5/30/2007 in passing UNSCR 1757)