Syrian and Iranian Proxy, Hezbollah, Firing Missiles and Syrian Civilians!

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I guess Hezbollah isn't just about killing Israeli civilians, they just like to kill any civilains their puppet-masters in Syria and Iran tell them to kill. Now they are firing at Syrian civilian locations! Pussies!

Report: Hezbollah fires rockets at Syrian civilians - Israel News, Ynetnews
Has the Syrian regime found a new way to oppress its citizens? Syria's opposition websites reported Monday that Hezbollah launched Katiusha rockets at civilians near Damascus, with the intention of harming them.

The act was clearly coordinated Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces against the Syrian people, claimed the Syrian Revolutionary Coordination Union, one of the more outspoken opposition groups in the country.

"The killings still continue and still there are people arrested," said Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby in Bahrain. He said there will be a meeting of Arab foreign ministers at the end of the week in Cairo to decide on the next steps.

 

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Maybe they Lie? no other link

 

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Hezbollah fading...

Hezbollah is in trouble
2.27.12, Op-ed: With Iran and Assad sinking, Lebanese terror group faces existential concerns

With Iran plummeting and Assad sinking, Hezbollah is also going down. The days of its intoxication with power are gone. The Shiite axis is fighting for its life and Hezbollah has become the most hated organization in the Arab world. Those betting on the Syrian president, who butchers with no mercy, are crushing along with him. One need not get excited about the speeches delivered by Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah; these are almost comic speeches, portraying the organization as stable and aggressive. Yet does he really think that Israel's public opinion buys into his statements as it did in the past?

The economic oxygen supply that arrived from Iran and kept Hezbollah alive is drying up. Iran faces the economic threat of paralyzing sanctions, its regime is on the defensive, and it has no money for adventures on the Lebanese front. This means that Hezbollah has no money to pay salaries and fund projects. The group's stock is plummeting in Lebanon's Shiite community as well. The country's Shiite citizens are disturbed by the one-sided support Nasrallah grants Assad, knowing that the score with them may be settled later on. And what will happen to Hezbollah and to them should Iran's regime collapse?

Hezbollah faces existential concerns over the fall of its allies, as well as the Hariri murder trial, while sustaining harsh criticism in Lebanon's public opinion and political establishment. This is why Nasrallah declares that he is not obligated to follow Iran's directives. He seeks to display authenticity. "Iran doesn't command us," he said. "Even if a strike hits Tehran's nuclear sites, Iran will not ask us to do anything and it does not expect a thing. When the time comes, we shall decide on our own which steps to take."

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Hezbollah fightin' for Assad...

Hezbollah condemned for 'attack on Syrian villages'
18 February 2013 - Syrian rebels and the opposition have accused the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah of attacking Syrian villages.

The Syrian National Council (SNC) said Hezbollah fighters attacked three villages near the Lebanese border in support of the Syrian government. Hezbollah said three Lebanese Shia were killed in the clashes. Hezbollah has consistently denied it has sent its members to fight for the Syrian regime. The UN meanwhile has said human rights abuses in Syria have got worse. In a report issued on Monday, a UN-appointed inquiry team said the conflict had become "increasingly sectarian... radicalised and militarised", according to AFP news agency. The panel said war crimes by both sides were growing, although it said abuses by rebels were not on the same scale as those committed by government forces.

UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte said it was time the UN Security Council referred the issue of war crimes to the International Criminal Court. EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels renewed sanctions - including an arms embargo - against Syria, whilst agreeing to provide more non-lethal support to rebels "for the protection of civilians". However they did not go as far as easing the arms ban on those fighting the Syrian regime, as Britain had wanted. Last week, the UN said it estimated 70,000 people had been killed in the conflict since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began nearly two years ago.

'Unprecedented invasion'

According to the SNC and Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) opposition groups, Hezbollah fighters crossed into central Syria on Saturday and attacked three villages in the Qusayr region of Homs. "The Hezbollah force moved on foot and was supported by multiple rocket launchers. The Free Syrian Army [FSA] had to call in two tanks that had been captured from the Assad army to repel the attack," SRGC spokesman Hade al-Abdallah told Reuters news agency. FSA spokesman Luay al-Miqdad called the alleged Hezbollah operation an "unprecedented invasion", according to a report in the Lebanese newspaper An Nahar. "Hezbollah's invasion is the first of its kind in terms of organisation, planning and coordination with the Syrian regime's air force," Mr Miqdad was quoted as saying. An unnamed Hezbollah spokesman was reported as confirming the three Shia deaths, but without saying whether they belong to the group.

AFP news agency quoted the spokesman as saying the dead fighters had been acting "in self-defence". At least five Syrian rebels were also killed in the clashes, unconfirmed reports said. Hezbollah is one of the biggest groups in Lebanon's governing coalition and is strongly backed by Iran, a close ally of President Assad. Mr Assad's minority Alawite sect is an off-shoot of Shia Islam. Besides the Lebanese army, Hezbollah's armed wing is by far the strongest and best equipped in the country. Lebanese officials have long accused Hezbollah's military wing, the Islamic Resistance, of fighting in Syria, while the US says Hezbollah provides training, advice, and logistical support to the Syrian military. The latest reports come days after a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed travelling from Syria to Lebanon.

BBC News - Hezbollah condemned for 'attack on Syrian villages'

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White House calls on EU to add Hezbollah to terror list
February 18th, 2013 - The Obama administration is calling for European countries to restrict Hezbollah's ability to operate by adding the group to the European Union's terror list, citing the Lebanon-based group's involvement in the deadly attack last year in Bulgaria.

The president's national security adviser Thomas Donilon wrote in an op-ed published in the New York Times on Monday that Europe "can no longer ignore" the threat that Hezbollah poses. "European governments must respond swiftly. They must disrupt its operational networks, stop flows of financial assistance to the group, crack down on Hezbollah-linked criminal enterprises and condemn the organization's leaders for their continued pursuit of terrorism," Donilon wrote in the item headlined "Hezbollah Unmasked." One White House official told Security Clearance the op-ed was the "next step in a line of efforts" to stop Hezbollah, including "considerable work" with the EU, Israel and other countries.

Donilon said Hezbollah's ability to operate worldwide and conduct covert attacks was underscored by the Bulgarian government investigation which blamed Hezbollah for the planning and executing of an attack that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver and injured dozens more in Burgas, Bulgaria last July. After the release of the investigation details, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, called on European nations "to take immediate action to crack down on Hezballah." At the time, Kerry did not specifically call on the EU to add Hezbollah to its terrorist list but the U.S. has been trying to convince the EU to take more action against Hezbollah since the attack, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said earlier this month. "I think you know that for many, many months, we've made no secret of our desire to see the EU take firmer action with regard to Hezbollah."

Nuland also said that Lady Catherine Ashton, EU's foreign minister, was "fully aware" of the State Department position. The White House also released a statement earlier this month saying, "We call on our European partners as well as other members of the international community to take proactive action to uncover (Hezbollah's) infrastructure and disrupt the group's financing schemes and operational networks."

In his op-ed, Donilon cited many other Hezbollah linked attacks, including the 1983 bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people. "Over the last decade, Hezbollah has worked assiduously to obscure its terrorist pedigree and convince the world that it is interested only in politics, providing social welfare services, and defending Lebanon. But it is an illusion to speak of Hezbollah as a responsible political actor. Hezbollah remains a terrorist organization and a destabilizing force across the Middle East."

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/18/white-house-calls-on-eu-to-add-hezbollah-to-terror-list/

 

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Assad tells Hezbollah to stop interfering...

FSA gives Hezbollah 48-hour ultimatum to stop intervention in Syria
Wednesday, 20 February 2013 - The Syrian Free Army (FSA) has issued an ultimatum to Lebanese Hezbollah group to cease its operations in Syria or face attacks on its installations in South Lebanon.

FSA Chief of Staff Brigadier General Salim Idris told Al Arabiya that Hezbollah, a staunch ally of President Bashar al-Assad, has 48 hours to end its involvement in Syria or the Syrian opposition army will begin targeting its positions in Lebanon. Syrian activist Hadi al-Abdallah told Al Arabiya that Hezbollah, in response to FSA threats, has begun sending reinforcements to the Syrian borders. In October 2012, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged that party members had fought Syrian rebels but said they were acting as individuals and not under the party’s direction.

On Sunday, a Hezbollah official said clashes on the Syrian border killed three of the group’s members and five Syrian opposition fighters. “Two Lebanese Shiites living in Syria were killed and at least 14 others wounded in clashes with rebels,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity, later adding that one of the wounded had also died.

Meanwhile, Hadi al-Abdallah of the Syrian Revolution General Commission told Reuters news agency that fighting broke out on Saturday after Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, who are in control of eight Syrian border villages, tried to expand their sphere by moving into three adjacent Sunni villages that were in the hands of the rebel Syrian Free Army. “The Hezbollah force moved on foot and was supported by multiple rocket launchers. The Free Syrian Army had to call in two tanks that had been captured from the Assad army to repel the attack,” Abdallah said.

Shiite Muslim Hezbollah fighters based in the Bekaa Valley on the other side of the border, which is not demarcated, moved into the area last year. Four of the villages they had captured are inhabited by co-religionists while the other four villages are mixed with Sunni Muslim and Shiite residents. Just hours before the clashes, the main bloc of the Syrian opposition accused the staunch Damascus ally of having intervened “militarily” on the side of the regime, and warned this posed a threat to ties between neighbors Syria and Lebanon. The Syrian National Council said that Hezbollah members on Saturday attacked “three Syrian villages in the Qusayr region near the Lebanese border” with full knowledge of the regular army.

FSA gives Hezbollah 48-hour ultimatum to stop intervention in Syria

 

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Syrian rebels tell Hezbollah to quit meddlin'...

Syrian opposition calls on Hezbollah to stay out
Apr 21,`13 -- The Syrian opposition called on Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the country, as activists said regime troops supported by gunmen linked to the Lebanese Shiite militant group battled rebels Sunday for control of a string of villages near the Lebanon-Syria border.

Outside the capital, Damascus, activists said they had documented the names of 80 people killed in a government assault on the area over the past five days. The Syrian National Coalition - the main Western-backed opposition group - warned that Hezbollah involvement in Syria's civil war could lead to greater risks in the area, and urged the Lebanese government to "adopt the necessary measures to stop the aggression of Hezbollah" and to control the border to "protect civilians in the area."

The statement, posted on the Coalition's Facebook page, coincided with a surge in fighting around the contested town of Qusair in Syria's Homs province near the frontier with Lebanon. Over the past two weeks, the Syrian military, supported by a Hezbollah-backed militia, has pushed to regain control of the border area. The region is strategic because it links Damascus with the Mediterranean coastal enclave that is the heartland of President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The fighting also points to the sectarian nature of the Syrian conflict, which pits a government dominated by the president's Alawite minority against a primarily Sunni Muslim rebellion, and underscores widely held fears that the civil war could drag in neighboring states. The pro-regime gunmen are members of the Popular Committees, which were set up last year in Syria with Hezbollah's backing to protect Syrian villages inhabited by Lebanese Shiites, although rebels accuse the fighters of attacking opposition villages in the area and fighting alongside government forces.

While Hezbollah confirms backing the Popular Committees, it denies taking part in Syria's civil war. The fighting along the border region has flared in recent weeks, and on Saturday government forces captured the villages of Radwaniyeh and Tel al-Nabi Mando. On Sunday, regime forces shelled the villages of Abu Houri, Saqarigh, Nahriyeh and Ein al-Tanour in the Qusair region, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group. It said at least four rebels were killed in the fighting.

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Hezbollah stickin' it's nose in where it don't belong...

Hezbollah fighters 'invading' Syria - rebel chief
29 May 2013 - The military chief of the main umbrella group of Syrian rebels, the Free Syrian Army, has accused Hezbollah fighters of "invading" Syria in a BBC interview.

Gen Selim Idriss said that more than 7,000 fighters of the Lebanese Shia movement were taking part in attacks on the rebel-held town of Qusair. Gen Idriss made an urgent appeal for more weapons "to defend our citizens". The UN Human Rights Council condemned government attacks on Qusair, and the involvement of foreign fighters. Gen Idriss made an emotional appeal to Western powers on the BBC World Service's Newshour programme, saying: " We are dying. Please come and help us." He said the FSA was fielding less than 1,500 fighters in the fight for Qusair, armed only with light weapons. More than 50,000 residents were trapped in the town and a "massacre" would occur if it fell, he added.

Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria have been buried in Lebanon

He also said he had received information that Iranian fighters were involved in the offensive. Asked about the presence of jihadist factions in the Syrian opposition, Gen Idriss said they formed "not more than 5-8% of all fighters in Syria" and that they had received excessive media coverage. However, he said that while he did not share jihadists' ideology, he was not in a position to try to deter anyone who wanted to join the fight against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. "When you are going to support us with weapons and ammunition, we can give you any kind of guarantee that you need that these weapons will go to the right hands," he said. Gen Idriss also demanded that the Syrian opposition in exile stop internal wrangling and agree immediately to attend a peace conference scheduled for next month in Geneva.

Fierce offensive

On Wednesday, Syrian state media claimed they had seized a key air base in the fight for Qusair. The Dabaa air base was seized after several hours' fighting, according to Syrian military sources. Hezbollah's al-Manar TV showed tanks being deployed inside the air base and soldiers in the base's hangars. Fighting around Qusair has been raging for several days as government forces have mounted a fierce offensive to oust rebels from the town. Correspondents say Qusair is a strategic conduit for the rebels, through which weapons and fighters can be transported from Lebanon, about 10km (six miles) away.

The town is also important for President Assad because it is located between Damascus and the Alawite heartland of the embattled government on the Mediterranean coast. And it is not far from the motorway linking the capital to the city of Homs. The vote at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva passed with 36 in favour, one against, and eight abstentions. Syria's key backer Russia called the resolution "odious", but is not a voting member of the council this year. The Council also called for an urgent investigation into alleged abuses in Qusair.

More BBC News - Hezbollah fighters 'invading' Syria - rebel chief

 

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Hezbollah Tips Syria Power Balance...

Analysis: Hezbollah tips Syria power balance, polarizes Lebanon
Tue Jun 11, 2013 (Reuters) - Lebanese have long viewed the Hezbollah guerrilla army as a state-within-a-state. But having watched it launch a military adventure in Syria and brutality on the streets of Beirut, they feel ever more hostage to the Islamist group's regional agenda.

Within minutes of a busload of unarmed demonstrators arriving on Sunday at the Iranian embassy in Beirut to protest against Iran and Hezbollah's military involvement in Syria, Hezbollah enforcers surrounded the building and scattered the crowd with batons and gunfire, leaving one dead. The small demonstration by an anti-Hezbollah crowd showed that the "Party of God", armed and financed by Iran, is not prepared to contemplate even the smallest level of threat.

Hezbollah supporters attack a bus carrying anti-Hezbollah protesters in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut

Such visibly frayed nerves in Lebanon's capital follow the Shi'ite group's dramatically increased involvement in the two-year-old Syrian civil war, helping troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad retake the border town of Qusair.

Hezbollah's involvement may have transformed the war into a sectarian contest, pitting Assad and his fellow Alawites, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, against mainly Sunni rebels, including al Qaeda groups fighting under the banner of the Nusra Front. Western powers and Turkey have also rallied behind the rebels, despite misgivings over Islamist radicals in their ranks, while Russia has armed and diplomatically shielded Assad.

ALEPPO NEXT?

 

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Granny says, "Let's see Hamas an' Hezbollah get inna war - den dem terrorists can kill each other...

Hamas Urges Former Ally Hezbollah to Leave Syria
June 17, 2013 (AP) > The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Monday urged Lebanon's Hezbollah militia to withdraw its fighters from Syria and accused it of stoking sectarian tensions, leveling unprecedented public criticism against a former ally.

The Hamas statement came as the region's Sunni and Shiite Muslims are lining up on opposite sides of Syria's civil war. Most of those trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad are Sunnis, as are their regional backers. Assad and key members of his regime are Alawites, followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and he is being supported by Shiite Iran, also the main backer of Hezbollah. Last month, Hezbollah sharply raised its profile in the fighting in Syria, playing a key role in the Assad regime's capture of the strategic rebel-held town of Qusair. Many Sunni hard-liners have taken Hezbollah's intervention as a declaration of war by Shiites, and some have urged Sunnis to fight alongside the rebels.

Hamas, a Sunni movement, on Monday criticized Hezbollah over its growing role in the Syria conflict. In a statement, Hamas called on Hezbollah to "withdraw its forces from Syria and keep its weapons directed at the Zionist enemy (Israel)." Hamas also said that sending forces to Syria "contributed to the sectarian polarization in the region." Hamas and Hezbollah used to be part of the self-proclaimed Iranian and Syrian-led "axis of resistance" against Israel. Hamas leaders in exile were based in Syria, and both Hamas and Hezbollah received funds and weapons from Iran. Hamas leaders left Syria last year to protest Assad's crackdown on fellow Sunnis. Since then, Hamas has drifted away from Iran and moved closer to the region's Sunni camp led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, though it has not formally cut ties with Tehran.

Hamas and Hezbollah played important roles in Iran's attempt to set up heavily armed proxies on opposite sides of Israel — Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. For years, Hamas and Hezbollah enjoyed close ties. Two decades ago, when Israel deported hundreds of Islamic militants from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to south Lebanon for a year, leaders of Hamas had a chance to meet face-to-face with Hezbollah leaders. The office of the Hamas representative in Lebanon is located in a heavily guarded Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut. Hamas officials have said Hezbollah has shared its military experience with their group.

Two Hamas officials in Gaza said Monday's statement is a result of growing outrage within Hamas over Hezbollah's involvement in Syria. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt the movement's top leaders who have been meeting in Cairo since Sunday. On Saturday, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, Ali Barakeh, met with a member of the Hezbollah political bureau, Hassan Hubballah. Hezbollah said in a statement that the two discussed "the existential challenges facing the Muslim and Arab world today, particularly the war on Syria," but it did not elaborate.

Hamas Urges Former Ally Hezbollah to Leave Syria - ABC News