Syria, Hezbollah 'looking to attack Israel'
Jordan's king warns of plans to distract mounting international
pressure
Posted: March 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – Jordan's king warned American Jewish officials yesterday
Syria and Hezbollah are planning terrorist attacks in Israel to
distract international attention from the growing crisis in Lebanon,
WorldNetDaily has learned.
King Abdullah II met with top American Jewish officials in Washington
at honorary event thanking Abdullah for his support of recent
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The King told Jewish leaders he
passed a message to prime minister Ariel Sharon that Syria and
Hezbollah are seeking to step up attacks against Israel to deflect
international opposition surrounding Damascus' occupation of Lebanon
and opposition calls for an investigation into the assassination of
former Prime Ministet Rafiq Hariri, for which Syria has been largely
blamed.
Abdullah said Israel should refrain from any immediate retaliation
against Palestinian groups if there is indeed a terrorist attack since
the likely source would be Syria and Hezbollah.
''King Abdullah warned the meeting about the dangers posed to
stability in the region, and Syria and Hezbollah's plans to upset
international efforts to have Syria remove its troops [from
Lebanon],'' Malcolm Hoenline, executive vice chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which
sent a representative to the meeting, told WND.
Security sources told WND recent attempted terror attacks and last
month's suicide bombing outside a Tel Aviv disco that killed five
Israelis were funded and directed by Hezbollah forces, which at the
direction of Syria has created a terror apparatus of Palestinian
militants in the West Bank receiving full-time salaries from the
Lebanese group.
Palestinian security last month intercepted a series of
communications, including phone calls and e-mails, between Hezbollah
and West Bank terrorists indicating Hezbollah had been trying to
recruit suicide bombers to carry out attacks that would sabotage a
truce reached by Israel and the Palestinian Authority earlier this
month, sources say.
One official said intercepted bank transactions suggested Hezbollah
had raised its cash offers to Palestinian terrorists and is now
willing to pay $100,000 for a suicide bombing operation. In the past,
information indicated Hezbollah would pay $20,000 for such attacks.
Sources say Hezbollah maintains hundreds of West Bank gunmen on its
payroll. One militant who said he was retired recently claimed to
reporters a Hezbollah recruiter had called him several weeks ago and
offered a generous payment for returning to violence. He said a squad
of five or six men from Palestinian terror groups typically receives
$5,000 to $8,000 a month for expenses, including bullets, weapons,
cell-phone calling cards and spending money.
Hezbollah is primarily backed by Syria and Iran.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun, who is returning to Beirut
to run in a May election, told WND Friday Hezbollah's military wing
should be disbanded. ''Hezbollah is an issue. After Syria gets out, we
don't need anymore resistance. It won't be necessary. Syria will
withdraw. Israel is not in Lebanon anymore.''
Last week opposition leaders led an estimated 800,000 people in
central Beirut rally, the largest anti-Syrian protest in Lebanon since
the opposition called for a ''general uprising'' 32 days ago, and one
of the largest protests in recent Middle East history. Some put the
numbers as high as 1.3 million.
Crowds from across Lebanon gathered in Martyrs' Square in central
Beirut to demand the immediate withdrawal of Syrian troops, the firing
of Syrian-backed intelligence forces, and an international inquiry
into Hariri's killing.
Mocking a Hezbollah mass rally that many say consisted of foreign
elements, protestors held signs that read ''This Crowd is 100%
Lebanese'' and ''No Syrians Here.''
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who met with Assad yesterday, said
Syria will comply with a U.N. resolution calling for a complete
withdrawal of its nearly 20,000 troops from Lebanon.
''The withdrawal has begun and it continues. [Assad is] working out a
timetable in consultation with the Lebanese authorities and will
withdraw his troops completely into Syrian territory. Not just the
troops but also the security service, as well as all the logistical
and material equipment to Syria,'' Annan told reporters.
Syria has moves about 8,000 troops and intelligence agents into
eastern Lebanon toward the border and has been promising a complete
withdrawal coordinated with the pro-Syrian government in Beirut, but
Assad has not given a timetable despite mounting international
pressure for him to comply before May elections.
''We don't believe Syrian declarations,'' said Aoun. ''How many times
have we heard before that Syria will withdraw? The international
community needs to keep the pressure and make sure it happens.''
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23 Mar 2005 08:32:35 AM |
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wrote:
Syria, Hezbollah 'looking to attack Israel'
Jordan's king warns of plans to distract mounting international
pressure
Posted: March 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
2005 WorldNutDaily.com
Fluuush!
WH
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24 Mar 2005 06:26:10 AM |
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Chris wrote:
itw...@happen.com wrote:
Syria, Hezbollah 'looking to attack Israel'
Jordan's king warns of plans to distract mounting international
pressure
Posted: March 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
2005 WorldNutDaily.com
Fluush!
WH
Yeah, I know you like to ignore anything that implicates your
Terrorist buddies.
Tony
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24 Mar 2005 01:58:39 PM |
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<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Chris wrote:
itw...@happen.com wrote:
Syria, Hezbollah 'looking to attack Israel'
Jordan's king warns of plans to distract mounting international
pressure
Posted: March 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
2005 WorldNutDaily.com
Fluush!
WH
Yeah, I know you like to ignore anything that implicates your
Terrorist buddies.
Tony
If only you quoted Reuters, AP, or a whole slew of any other organizations,
but you quoted WorldNutDaily - Quoting WND, NewsMax, Fox, Limbaugh, O'Reilly
etc., is tabloid crap, and after taking a good dump, must be flushed, else
the sewer tends to stink up the joint.
eric.
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