Jeff Stein’s CQ story is packed tight with fascinating tidbits about what the West’s intelligence services know about Hezbollah — and why they’re not saying more. So make sure to read the whole thing. Here’s a snippet.
Irans role as quartermaster to Hezbollah missileers in Lebanon is beyond dispute…
“Lots of photographs exist” of the Iranian supply operations, Reynolds says… “The IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] are well aware of the location of rockets…“
“The transfers are also detectable by U.N. peacekeepers,” Reynolds added, who are headquartered “near the airport, and [by] foreign military attaches in Damascus. These weapons are then followed into Lebanon by human and technical means…“
“The Israelis are very hesitant to reveal photographic electro-optical evidence from Mt. Hermon,” Reynolds says, “because it would reveal to the Syrians some Israeli [surveillance] capabilities and the Syrians would then use that knowledge to counter them.“
Washington, Reynolds says, resists “revealing them for the same reason” so as not to disclose the quality of its technical collection capabilities, which include satellites and ground-station intercepts of Iranian and Syrian electronic communications.
But pretty good pictures of the Hezbollah positions are available to anybody with a laptop, via Google Earth.
Reynolds even e-mailed me a couple of photos of the Lebanon-Israel-Syria border region that he had downloaded from Google arth and marked up around the Hezbollah sites.
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I’m wondering if you could please post the google earth earth coordinates for the photo in the posting. I’m trying to find the marked areas, w/o success so far.
Thanks!
Dan
Dan,
The coordinates are about 33D 16M 23S x 35D 37M 12S. It wasn’t hard to find, the border isn’t that big, just don’t trust the accuracy of Google borders…
to find out the truth -if you are realy seeking for it – you have to find out and listen to both sides. the terrorist is not Hezbollah, it’s Israel who kill everyone to get what she wants. Backed by all the west. They will fail for sure, no matter whow long it will take
If you are interested I have posted several Iranian sites on GE under ffjbentson check them out.