Tag Archives: Hizballah

Obama’s non-response to Assad’s chemical weapons would encourage a nuclear Iran

Posted on April 26, 2013 by DRenegade

President Barack Obama faced a tough decision Friday, April 26, on how to handle Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons just a month after he warned it would be “game changer.” The US intelligence community and the White House have … Continue reading →

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White House to Congress: Assad has used chemical weapons. Israeli jets down Hizballah drone opposite Haifa

Posted on April 25, 2013 by DRenegade

In a remarkable reversal, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Abu Dhabi Thursday afternoon, April 25, that the US intelligence community believes the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people, determining with “varying degrees of confidence” that … Continue reading →

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Gantz: Another Afghanistan in store for Syria. Hizballah brigades fight for Assad

Posted on April 23, 2013 by DRenegade

Israel’s chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz warned Monday, April 22, that Bashar Assad’s fall would not end the Syrian bloodbath but drag the country even further into tribal and ethnic warfare on the scale of Afghanistan two decades … Continue reading →

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Two armed Hizballah brigades fighting for Assad near Homs

Posted on April 22, 2013 by DRenegade

Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, pledged action against the use of chemical weapons in Syria and promised not to allow sophisticated weapons to reach other nations or Hizballah-type organizations. The Golan border would be well guarded, he said, speaking at … Continue reading →

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Al Qaeda forms volatile 1,000-km chain from Baghdad to Damascus

Posted on March 12, 2013 by DRenegade

Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz rated war as a “low risk” for the foreseeable future, but credited the risk of escalation as “very high,” in a lecture he delivered Monday, March 11 at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Institute … Continue reading →

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Washington to Israel: Hizballah has Chemical Weapons

Posted on March 6, 2013 by DRenegade

For the first time in many years, voices in the US administration were criticizing the Israeli defense forces for under-reacting and, in this case, also underestimating the chemical weapons threat emanating from Syria and neglecting to pursue counter-measures. This is … Continue reading →

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Hizballah on high alert, jockeys for a role in potential Syrian peace accord

Posted on February 21, 2013 by DRenegade

Hizballah forces went on alert Thursday, Feb. 21, upon the expiry of a 48-hour ultimatum slapped down by Syrian rebels to halt the Lebanese group’s military support for Bashar Assad – in particular, its artillery and mortar backing for Syrian … Continue reading →

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Syrian Islamists meet Hizballah head-on – take in arms from Bosnia, Kosovo

Posted on February 18, 2013 by DRenegade

Reports Monday, Feb. 18, that Hizballah has transferred 1,000 fighters to the Syrian district of Homs are a red herring to distract attention from six new major developments in the Syrian civil conflict – revealed here by DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence … Continue reading →

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Assad set on arms transfers to Lebanon. Israel responds with no-fly zone

Posted on February 4, 2013 by DRenegade

Syrian ruler Bashar Assad has ordered the resumption of weapons transfers to the Lebanese Hizballah, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources report. This was agreed with Iran’s National Security Director Saeed Jalilee, who arrived in Damascus after Israel’s reported air strike last Wednesday, … Continue reading →

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Iranian-Hizballah convoy blown up on Syrian Golan. Border tensions shoot up

Posted on January 26, 2013 by DRenegade

At least eight officers were killed in a mysterious twin-car bomb explosion Friday, Jan. 25 at Syrian regional intelligence headquarters in Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. Some of the fatalities were Syrian, but Western intelligence sources … Continue reading →

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Concern that Assad may have passed some chemical weapons to Hizballah

Posted on December 10, 2012 by DRenegade

There is growing concern that some of the chemical weapons the Assad regime has been pushing out of the Damascus area in the last few days were sent across the border to Hizballah strongholds in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley to … Continue reading →

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Israeli warplanes fly over Golan as Hizballah fighters pour into Syria

Posted on November 4, 2012 by DRenegade

Israeli warplanes flew over the divided Golan Sunday, Nov. 4, in a show of strength and as a deterrent against the Syrian civil war seeping across the border, DEBKAfile’s military and Western intelligence sources report.  In Paris, President Francois Hollande vowed … Continue reading →

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Russian S-400s relocated near Turkey. Hizballah shifts units, rockets into Syria

Posted on October 17, 2012 by DRenegade

Hizballah has begun depleting line of rockets and fighting units it has facing Israel from the Litani River of South Lebanon and moving them to the Syrian front line at Homs to strengthen Assad’s forces, DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal. Hizballah’s … Continue reading →

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Spreading Iranian cyber attacks hit Israeli military, US financial and Gulf oil targets

Posted on October 13, 2012 by DRenegade

A week ago, on Oct. 6, an unmanned Iranian aerial vehicle with stealth attributes breached Israeli air space. By eluding Israel’s radar, the UAV exposed serious gaps in its air defenses. Thursday, Oct. 11, Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah admitting the drone … Continue reading →

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IDF on guard for Iranian-Hizballah drones from Palestinian Gaza

Posted on October 12, 2012 by DRenegade

The Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threat Thursday night of more UAV’s over Israel aroused concern in the Israeli high command that Iranian drones had been smuggled into the hands of the Palestinian Hamas extremists ruling the Gaza Strip. He implied … Continue reading →

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