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Hezbollah prepares for next war against Israel

The residents of Beirut are accustomed to Israeli military jets. Between night and dawn, they break through again and again close above the Lebanese capital, the sound barrier. Ein tiefer Donner ist dann zu hören, die Fensterscheiben vibrieren bedrohlich. Aufklärungsflüge über dem Libanon sind für Israel ein wichtiger Bestandteil seiner Militärstrategie. Die libanesische Regierung hält sie für einen Verstoß gegen internationales Recht, wie sie mehrfach bei den UN monierte.

Geht es nach der Hisbollah, der schiitischen Partei und Miliz im Libanon, soll es mit der uneingeschränkten Lufthoheit der israelischen Kampfjets bald vorbei sein. "Es ist notwendig, diesen Verstößen endlich ein Ende zu bereiten", hieß es in einer Erklärung der Organisation im Juli. Hisbollah-Führer Hassan Nasrallah sprach von einer neuen "Verteidigungsstrategie". Es ist die deutliche threat to shoot, using advanced radar and air defense missiles, the hated Israeli reconnaissance aircraft in the future. The new plants will install the Hezbollah, according to Israeli and Arab media reports in central Lebanon, on the almost 2700 meters high Sannine and the surrounding mountains. It is not clear yet just how far the preparations for the Shiite guerrillas have progressed.

For the Israeli cabinet that was reason enough to get advice last week about it. A Hezbollah anti-aircraft defense system would be a "disturbance of strategic balance," it said in a joint announcement of the cabinet members. Israel will not tolerate any further arms smuggling to Hezbollah and to all events the Lebanese government accountable.

in Lebanon was formed after violent disputations in May a new government of national unity, which was also Hezbollah is involved. The Lebanese Cabinet under the old and new Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, Hezbollah is now officially admitted to the "right to resistance" against Israel. The Shiite militia can operate so freely to develop their defenses, was started immediately after the end of the Lebanon war in summer 2006. North of the Litani River, beyond the UN buffer zone with Israel, have since been acquired large tracts of land. Where before there had been only wilderness, built new villages, Hezbollah, Shiites moved from the south, built roads and water and electricity lines. The entire area is now closed military zone. Here are the underground bunker systems and launch sites for long-range rockets of Iranian design, which can reportedly reach any target in Israel. What are the facilities real or fake, can not detect the Israeli military from the air alone.

During the summer 2006 war, many were bombed Hezbollah positions, most of which, as it turned out later faked, or were abandoned. Israeli soldiers were in bunkers reconnaissance photos of his own air force, with markings in Hebrew. Hezbollah knew im Voraus, was bombardiert und wo Bodentruppen zum Einsatz kommen sollten. Die Guerillas saßen in ihren unterirdischen Bunkern mit Klimaanlage, Küche, Betten und warteten auf eine Möglichkeit, israelischen Kommandos, die sie mit versteckten Kameras beobachten konnten, in den Hinterhalt zu locken. Über militärische Geheimnisse informiert wird die Guerilla von israelischen Soldaten, meist im Austausch gegen Drogen. Erst im Frühjahr wurden zwei dieser Drogenschmugglerringe ausgehoben, an denen israelische Militärs beteiligt waren.

Zu den Neuerungen der Hisbollah gehört auch eine Art "Fremdenlegion", in der Angehörige nicht schiitischer Glaubensgemeinschaften und sogar Kommunisten kämpfen dürfen. Vergleichbares already existed during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon 1982-2000, when the Lebanese Resistance Brigades, Christians, Druze and Sunni Muslims united. For the reactivation of this force, the adoption of positive experiences from the July war 2006th At that time, Sunni and communist groups took part in the fight against Israel. Including the Sunni Islamist Fajr troops. "The Israelis will come in future on a resistor, which is composed of all sects and denominations," said Sheikh Afif Naboulsi, a Hezbollah Shiite cleric close to you. According to Israeli intelligence reports

the terrorist organization will now have a total of 40 000 rockets. "Two or three times as much as in 2006," says Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

including about 1000 C-802 missiles, which are to be positioned along the Lebanese coastline and threatening Israeli ships. One of the rockets that fly six to seven meters above the water surface was badly damaged during the Lebanon war, an Israeli warship off the coast of Beirut. Smuggled these missiles as well as all other weapons, the Israeli allegation and reasonable suspicion about the neighboring country of Syria. There was murdered last Sunday in the port city of Tartous in mysterious circumstances General Mohammed Suleiman, the supply of arms to Hezbollah organized. A sniper is said to have met the General on a yacht from outside his home in his head. "The Israeli government has neither knowledge of nor give a comment about this incident," said Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

mid-July in Tehran was already a truck convoy of Iran's elite Republican Guards, allegedly loaded with weapons for Hezbollah, exploded in a suburb of Tehran, under unclear circumstances - 15 people were killed. Some months ago a train derailed in northern Turkey by a similarly mysterious explosion. The train was carrying military equipment to Syria.