Hizbullah attacked the Lebanese government several weeks ago after the latter challenged Hizbullah's right to build and maintain its own separate communications network. A French website recently released a map of this network. Mideast expert Walid Phares, here, analyzes the practical import of this network, a closed-circuit cable system which the Lebanese government cannot monitor.
The network is ideal for mobilizing fighters and dispatching them to different places and could be used against the UN peacekeeping force put in place after the 2006 war as well as against the Lebanese government. It goes up to the Lebanese-Syrian border, through which Iran has been able to supply Hizbullah. Phares also speculates that "this communications network is a battlefield system" which the Iranians and Syrian special forces could use to invade Lebanon en masse - as well as to threaten Israel's northern border directly.
Phares thinks the network could allow Hizbullah to fire its rockets and missiles system across Lebanon "without significant interference from Western assets." In his view, Hizbullah and Iran are now ready to counter any effort by the 'international community' to keep them from dominating the Eastern Mediterranean.
I realize that keeping track of delegates for Obama and Hillary is important - but to downplay a story this big is truly scandalous.
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