Lebanese Terror Gang Training Exercises
Charles Johnson
Mon Nov 5, 2007 at 12:00 pm PST • Views: 1,511
The terror gang Hizballah is continuing preparations for the next war with Israel, and the Associated Press continues to give them an avenue for their propaganda: Report: Hezbollah stages maneuvers.
Armed Hezbollah guerillas gather in a bush with an anti-aircraft missile during training in the southern village of Jebaa, in this 1995 file photo. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Thousands of Hezbollah guerrillas staged secret military maneuvers without weapons or uniforms near Israel’s border in southern Lebanon, a pro-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper reported Monday. The Lebanese government downplayed the report as probably just a simulation.
Al-Akhbar, a pro-Hezbollah newspaper, said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah personally supervised the maneuvers, which it reported were carried out in the last three days and were the biggest ever staged on Israel’s border by the Shiite Muslim militant group.
Monday’s report marked the first time Hezbollah, with its highly secretive military wing, revealed such exercises through a newspaper. The maneuvers, if confirmed, could pose a major challenge to a U.N.-brokered cease-fire that ended last year’s war with the Jewish state.
Hezbollah officials declined to comment. However, a Hezbollah legislator, Hassan Fadlallah, said it was only “natural” that the group be fully ready to confront any possible Israeli attack.
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