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Iranian Syrian Establishment of the Most Powerful
Terrorist Organization Hezbollah (The Party of God) In
Lebanon
By: tony Safa
The Iranian Ownership of Hezbollah
Iran laid the foundations of the Hezbollah organization as part of its
doctrine of "exporting the Islamic Revolution" and its strategy of using
terrorism as a key element in its national security policy. Such a policy
became a necessity after Iran lost against Iraq in 1980 (Iranian Iraqi
war), which discredited Iran's power on the international stage. The
establishment of the terrorist organization Hezbollah became crucial for
Iran to gain back some power in the region.
However, Hezbollah's Ideology is
the extension of the Iranian revolution, inspired by the teaching of
Ayatollah Khomeini, which could only feed on the poor and oppressed
Shiite's Muslim society. Only in a poor Shiite society, could you motivate
people with money, teach them fanatics, and drive them with propaganda.The
Shiite minorities make up only 15% of Islam. The rest are mainly Sunni
Muslims who do not approve of Ayatollah Khomeini's teaching. Shiites are
located mainly in Iran and Iraq. Since Iran's war with Iraq, Iran had
only the Shiites community located in Lebanon to market its
Ideology.Lebanon, torn apart and destroyed by the Syrian-Palestinian
terrorist groups such as (El-Saiiqa), became a fertile land for so many
Terrorist organizations. It was not difficult for Iranian Revolutionary
Guards to move into Lebanon's Bekaa region where they established
Hezbollah in 1982. 1,500 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were deployed in
Bekaa and in the Syrian town of Zebedani near the Syrian-Lebanese border
in 1982 operating under various names such as "Islamic Jihad",
"Revolutionary Justice Organization", "Oppressed on the Earth", and
Hezbollah (The Party of God). The oil rich Iranian ideology invested
millions of dollars to recruit, train and equip Hezbollah.
Syria's
interest in Lebanon and its investment in Hezbollah
The Syrian Baath regime is
controlled by Allawits. Allawits is a Muslim sect and a minority in Syria
and has a fundamental problem with the Muslim Sunni majority. The Syrian
Allawits Baath regime terrorizes and dictates to Syrians, and had
established a totalitarian regime to divert Muslim Sunni majority from
Syria's internal problem. This was created by using two main propagandas.
The first was presenting Israeli's and Americans as evil. The second
presents democracy and human rights as tools used by the free world to
invade the so-called Arab Muslim world. This propaganda crushed any
moderate voice and transferred Syria to a manufacturing land of Islamic
fundamentalism that is exported to the Arabic world.
The Syrian Baath totalitarian
regime could not bare the existence of Lebanese democracy to grow along
its border. Lebanese free multi language press, specifically the Arabic
press, reached all the Arabic readers in the region and it is a powerful
weapon against totalitarian propaganda, which is the seed of terrorist
ideology. Therefore, Syria claimed Lebanon as a Syrian state and gave way
to its terrorist organizations (EL SAIQA that consists of mainly
Palestinians, Afghanis, Libyans, Somalis.) to move into Lebanon and ignite
a civil war using the same propaganda to delude many of the Muslim
Lebanese community to side with the Baath regime.
Syria's strategy in Lebanon is to
keep igniting the Lebanese civil war by switching sides and allies.
Syria's aim is to maintain the Lebanese civil war in an attempt to prove
to the world that the Lebanese could not rest unless the Syrian Baath
regime interfered as a legitimate power to dictate Lebanon.
However, in 1982, Israel moved
into Lebanon to dismantle the Syrian terrorist groups forcing Syria to
withdraw from Lebanon. Syria lost its missile defense in the Lebanon Bekaa
valley and all of its air force over the Lebanese sky. Syria's heavy
military losses would not measure up to Syria's great loss of being forced
to pull out of Lebanon. Lebanon was a safe haven for the Syrian terrorist
groups, which Syria used to promote its political and strategic interests.
In another word, Lebanon was the only identity, which the Baath regime
wears to export terror.
Defeated Syria could not
financially afford to rebuild or establish new terrorist organizations in
Lebanon. The Iranian well-funded Hezbollah in Lebanon Bekaa valley become
a golden opportunity and the only available door for the Syrian Baath
regime to dominate Lebanon again and use Hezbollah's terror to regain
power in the region.
Lebanese and
Hezbollah
All Lebanese reject the Hezbollah
Goal. Lebanese Christians, Sunni Muslims, and Druze would not except to
turn Lebanon to a Muslim fundamentalist state like Iran. Even the Shiite
Lebanese community itself does not believe in Hezbollah Iranian ideology
and its Syrian's Baath Regime propaganda. However, the Iranian funding, in
addition to Syria's support in which Syria forced its puppet Lebanese
government to provide Hezbollah a political sphere to legitimize its
activity in Lebanon, and enable the organization to gain momentum among
the Lebanese poor Shiites community. They also provided Hezbollah with a
territorial base that guarantees freedom of activity.
Through its social organizations
and its Ideology, supported by the Syrian conspiracy theories, Hezbollah
is able to provide the right atmosphere for the birth of fanatic mentality
among some of the Shiite Lebanese Community. Some Shiites are led to truly
and strongly believe that democracy and the Western World are evil, and
they are brain washed to commit suicidal attacks against this evil. The
rest of the Lebanese Shiite community sympathizes with Hezbollah only in
its resistance against Israel in south Lebanon and The Lebanese Shiite
Community support the Hezbollah to achieve Lebanese political gain and
generate power domestically. But the Shiite community doesn't believe in
the Iranian Ideology and Hezbollah's goals neither in the Syrian
propagandas.
Lebanese would support any
resistance against foreign armies in Lebanon. Lebanese want a Lebanon free
from Israel, Syria, Palestinian terrorist groups and the Iranian-Syrian
Hezbollah. Despite, Hezbollah being a secular fanatic religious group, in
the diversy religious state of Lebanon it aims to turn Lebanon into a
fundamentalist state like Iran.Syria, through it's army in Lebanon and
it's puppet government, forced Hezbollah as a national resistance inside
Lebanon political arena regardless of Hezbollah association with
terrorism, ideology of suicide bombing and Hot although.With the Syrian
use of propaganda, pinning Lebanese opposed to Hezbollah as a traitor and
accusing them for working with the Zionist and Americans, they have
jailed, tortured, exiled and assassinated the Lebanese opposition.
However, since Israel withdraw
from Lebanon in 2002, according to the United Nation resolution 425,
Hezbollah lost its mask, which the Party of God has disguised to divert
Lebanese from its main goals and delude some Lebanese by promoting itself
as a Lebanese resistance force. Today the majority of Lebanese reject
completely the Hezbollah presence as a state inside a state and calling
for Hezbollah disarmament. Hezbollah is now openly serving Iran's and
Syria's interests in the region at the cost of Lebanon and the Lebanese
people.
Hezbollah
Capability
Through the Iranian Muslim
Fundamentalist teaching, supported by the Syrian propagandas that aim to
justify the Muslim Fundamentalist terror, along with Syria's effort to
provide Hezbollah with political protection in the inter-Arab and some of
the international arenas, Hezbollah has become a source of inspiration for
Islamic terrorist groups throughout the world. Serving as an example of a
brave, sophisticated and daring Terrorist organization, it relies on the
policy of suicide bombing. Most important it has succeeded in proving that
such policy works. Hezbollah Suicidal attacks forced Israel out of Lebanon
when all Arab countries combined could achieve a military gain against
Israel.This God guided organization and its proxy war against Israel,
United States, the European Union, pro-Western Arab states and against the
evil democracy, are well produced and promoted on Hezbollah's
international TV station Al-Manar, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, reaching
Muslims all over the world. Al-Manar uses American and European
communication infrastructures to broadcast Hezbollah's messages of hate
and violence against Isreal, the United States, the European Union and
pro-Western Arab states and against the evil democracy.Along side the
policy of suicide bombing and terror which Hezbollah preaches to it's
sympathizers around the globe, the organization set up social and
charitable international organizations, agents and terrorist cells all
over the world in South America, Canada, the United States, Australia,
Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and the rest of the Middle East. These
networks provide technology, money & support for Hezbollah and cooperate
with other international terrorist organizations.
Western intelligence sources
estimate Hezbollah's operational budget to be one of the biggest among
terrorist groups. When Hezbollah was first established, it was dependent
on Iranian funding, and later, along with the Iranian funding, Hezbollah
used the Bekaa Valley as a center for the large-scale growth of plants to
produce hashish and opium. Hezbollah was forced to stop its open drug
operation in late 1990 and Later turned to charitable organizations,
individual donations, legitimate business, and illegitimate businesses
such as illegal arms trading, South African diamond smuggling, cigarette
smuggling in America, currency counterfeiting, credit card fraud, theft,
operating illegal telephone exchanges, drug trafficking plus the $100
million annually from Iran.
The joined Iranian Syrian
investment in Hezbollah, both of which are experts in terrorism, plus
Syria & Iran's logistics, backing and assistance, have made Hezbollah the
most sophisticated terrorist group. Hezbollah has developed various
methods of operational levels, military tactics, varieties of lines and
ways of attack. Hezbollah's capability rapidly advanced to reach beyond
the traditional weapon. It started with kidnapping westerners, bombings,
suicide bombings, missile capacity and unarmed planes. Lately Hezbollah
claimed the capability of much more powerful and untraditional weapon!!!
Some of Hezbollah activities that
show the fast advancing capability and the organization international
reach.
1) Elements of the group were
responsible for the kidnapping and detention of US and other Western
hostages in Lebanon French Cultural Center in Lebanon (1982).
2) Car bombing of French military
barracks in Beirut killing 58 French paratroopers (1983)
3) US terrorist attacks, US
Embassy in Beirut April 1983
4) US Marine barracks in Beirut in
October 1983
5) US Embassy annex in Beirut in
September 1984.
6) Hijacking of TWA Flight 847
killing one U.S. Navy diver (1985) Three members of Hizballah, 'Imad
Mughniyah, Hasan Izz-al-Din, and Ali Atwa, are on
7) Bombing of Israeli Embassy in
Buenos Aires killing 29 (1992)
8) Bombing of Jewish Community
Center in Buenos Aires killing 96 (1994)
9) 2000 - the arrest of Ali Khalil
Mehri, a Lebanese businessman who allegedly funneled millions of dollars
to Hezbollah from South America. Mehri was released on bail and fled to
Syria.
10) 2001- Paraguayan authorities
have identified Assad Ahmad Barakat as Hezbollah's leading operative and
chief financier in the region
11) 2002 - Hezbollah direct
support & funding of Hamas (involvement in the failed January effort to
smuggle 50 tons of weapons to Palestinian)
12) 2002- Isreal apprehended
Hezbollah operative Jihad (Gerard) Shuman from Britain to Israel on his
British passport (Israeli authorities, revealed a yarmulka, a timer,
tourist maps of the Jerusalem area, a large sum of money, a video camera,
disposable cameras and several cellular phones.)
13) awzi Ayoub, a Canadian citizen
of Lebanese descent met hezbollah operative in Europe who supplied him
with a fake American passport for his entry into Israel where he was
arrested.
14) Since 2003, six Hezbollah
cells have been uncovered among Israeli Arabs.
15) In 2002, Germany closed down
two charitable organizations raising money for Hezbollah: the al-Shahid
Social Relief Institution.
15) 2004 Hezbollah involvement in
the upraise of Sadar Militia in Iraq
16) 2004 flew an unarmed plan over
IsraelHezbollah Today
Today, Hezbollah plays a bigger
roll in the region. Iranian missile technology may not have the capability
to reach Israel, its regional competitor, therefore Iran evened up with
Israel by moving geographically to it's border through Hezbollah in
Lebanon. Syria's weak military is not compatible in the region. However,
through Hezbollah's terror, Syria is able to pose a threat to serve its
strategic interest in the region. In return, Syria provides political
protection for Hezbollah and a territorial base in Lebanon. Syria
guarantees its share being the liaison between the Iranian weapon and
Hezbollah trigger. What TRIGGER???It is the Trigger Hezbollah is speaking
of lately. Hezbollah claims the capability to destruct all Northern Israel
in seconds with the turn of a
SWITCH!!!!
Another major roll for Hezbollah
is to reach the Shiite majority in Iraq, seeking an uprising against the
United States. Iran and Syria, both of which have had problems with
Iraqis, are not able to effectively pursue the Shiites in Iraq against the
United States. Hezbollah is the only organization qualified for this task.
Hezbollah is trying hard to lead Shiite Iraq against the United States:
1) During the month of
Feb-2005 the Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Naquib said 18 members of
Iran-Syrian backed Hezbollah members have been detained in Iraq on charges
of terrorism.
2) Hezbollah supporters, dressed
up with bombs wrapped around their body, took to the street in support of
the El Sader uprising against United States.
3) A sample showing the type of
daily broadcast by the Hezbollah TV station Al-Manar called for the
resistance against the US Marines in Iraq: ("With our steadfastness we
threaten [America]. Throughout all time we chant: America is the mother of
terrorism. Let the mother of terrorism fall. America is the army of evil:
an invading, aggressive, occupying army. There
is nothing left but the rifles. There is nothing left but the martyrs."
The video ends with footage of a suicide bomber detonating his explosive
belt.)
All the above distinctive features
and capabilities make Hezbollah the most dangerous terrorist organization
worldwide, serving both Iranian and Syrian interests. The Lebanese people
still pay the price of the other's wars over their land. Since the time
Israel and the Arab countries went to war more then 50 years ago, Lebanon
has been calling for a peaceful settlement to solve the regional
conflicts. Now, while Arabs and Israelis are talking peace, Lebanon is
held hostage by Syria and Iran who both wear a Lebanese mask named
Hezbollah to disguise and damage any hope for peace.Hezbollah Lebanese
fighters are holding the Lebanese people against the wall, threatening
them with a civil war if they reject Syria and Iran. The problem is that,
Hezbollah fighters do see that Lebanon is paying the price but they do not
care about Lebanon. These fighters are no longer Lebanese. They are brain
washed and driven into a war bigger then Lebanon, it is their
war of God
and The devil.
However, Hezbollah should
understand that the Lebanese people, who sacrificed 1000's of men to
defend Human Rights and to defend the oldest and only true democracy in
the region, are much different then the people of Syria and Iran. If
Hezbollah doesn't learn from history, the future will be a good lesson
that No one could stay in Lebanon, but LEBANESE AND All Lebanese would not
believe BUT in HUMAN RIGHTS and DEMOCRACY. |
