Friday, March 02, 2007

Syria Border Not Patrolled By UN Troops Through Which New Arms And Equipment Are Flowing To Hezbollah

Bloomberg.com has the story that goes in part like this... Six months after a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia is rearming, raising the specter that even a small border skirmish might trigger another war... The UN troops don't patrol the border with Syria, through which Israeli officials say new arms and equipment... are flowing, adding to the arsenal of an estimated 8,000 rockets Hezbollah retained at the end of the conflict... “The big problem today is that the smuggling of weapons between Syria and Lebanon didn't stop,” Lieutenant Colonel Guy Hazut, of the Israeli army's 91st division, said in an interview along the Israeli-Lebanese border...
Read the story in full at link below...
Hezbollah Rearms, Raising Risk of Reigniting War With Israel

In the above Bloomberg story... former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said that the hope that a new enhanced UN Force in Lebanon would help prevent future flare-ups along the border had failed. Yeah... I’d have to say that is an understatement.
Like Mr. Bolton... I too believe another war is likely...
AubreyJ.........

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