By Sean Osborne
Northeast Intelligence NetworkFriday, February 9, 2007
The brief firefight of a dayago between Lebanese and Israeli ground forces was more serious and of more significant consequencethan many people seem to realize. It was not just another fire fight or skirmish between Arabs and Jews in the middle east. This event was something else.
Consider the corefacts of the matter.
The impotent, virtually useless Lebanese Army, an army which cannot even maintain effective control over its own sovereign territory, intentionally engagedan Israeli armored force executing a border securitymine-clearing mission while on sovereign Israeli territory.
Before August 2006 such an engagment would have been unthinkable for the Lebanese Army. Virtually suicidal by any tactical standard. Like a kitten taking a swipe at an adultpit bull.
After August 2006 not only was such an attack thinkable but the potential repercusions were competently considered beforehand and determined to bedesirable by the Lebanese Army field commander.Moreover, theLebanese commanderhad been very well advisedby the Israeli commander that hehad nointention of crossing the blue line and entering Lebanese territory.
Yet this Lebanese commander still ordered his forces toengage fires withthe Israeli armored force.
Why? For what purpose or tactical necessity did the Lebanese engage the Israeli force?
The Lebanese Army must have known Hezbollah had placed those Iranian shaped-charge mines on Israeli territory, and they must have known the Israeli's would come and clear them. The Lebanese Army sat and waited for the Israeli force to show up. The Israeli's did. The Israeli's told the Lebanese they were going to clear the mines.
Therefore it seems obvious that the entire operation ofplacing of the mineson Israeli soil must have beena set-up, a trap to provoke or achieve some tactical resultabove and beyond what this event appears to have been in hindsight. It is a failed tactical repeat of the kidnapping event of July 2006.
The Lebanese Army is either working in coordination with Hezbollah, or that was no Lebanese Army unit, but Hezbollah soldiersin Lebanese Army uniforms and vehicles.
There is war coming to this border region, a very big war is coming. Iran and Syria with their terrorist proxies are spoilingfor a very big war.I see no other tactical explanation which makes an iota of sense.
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