Syria, Iran Back Terrorists Against Lebanese Government
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After fighting all week, the Lebanese military has still not been able to
overcome the Islamist terrorist group holed up in a Palestinian camp using
refugees as its cover. It appears Syria and Iran might have a lot to do with
that.
Fighting broke out again Thursday night following a tenuous truce between
the Lebanese Army and the Fatah al-Islam (Victory of Islam) terrorist group,
which have been fighting
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since Sunday near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. Around 70 people have been
killed so far, and thousands have fled the area.
<http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4211> debkafile reports that the
reason the Lebanese Army is having so much difficulty is that Syrian-backed
and Iranian-financed radical Palestinian groups have sent in gunmen to
assist Fatah al-Islam. There is much at stake for the Lebanese government,
whose grip on power is tenuous at best. debkafile reported Thursday:
[T]he army's failure against the Palestinian extremists in Nahr al-Bared
would detract from its authority in the whole of Lebanon. It would have
grave repercussions for the stability of government of anti-Syrian Fouad
Siniora and its ability to stand up to Hezbollah and pro-Syrian forces.
This is exactly what radical Islamic forces, driven by Syria and Iran, want
to do: topple the moderate, U.S.-backed government of Lebanon. It is no
wonder-despite denials-evidence strongly implicates Syria and Iran as
supporting the standoff.
Since anti-Syrian reformers gained control of the Lebanese government in the
spring of 2005, Syria and Iran have been working to undermine the authority
of that government. Their primary, and certainly most visible, tool has been
the notorious terrorist group Hezbollah. The Israel-Lebanon war
<http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=2391> last summer in
particular gave Hezbollah opportunity to gain further ground in Lebanon.
Then the resignation of five Hezbollah-allied Shiite politicians and the
assassination of another government minister toward the end of 2006,
followed by mass Hezbollah-led public protests, almost toppled the Lebanese
government.
View the current conflict in this context, and it seems impossible that
Syria and Iran would not have some level of involvement.
Fatah al-Islam consists almost solely of non-Lebanese fighters and, as Amir
Taheri writing for the
<http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/tehrans_tar
gets_opedcolumnists_amir_taheri.htm> New York Post points out, there are
only two possible ways for these terrorists to enter Lebanon: through Israel
or Syria. "It's not hard to imagine how these guys got to Tripoli," Taheri
wrote. "And is it possible that someone in Damascus would want to push
Lebanon toward a new civil war without coordinating with Syria's principal
ally, the Islamic Republic in Tehran?" (May 23).
Suspicion over Syria's involvement is certainly validated by the timing of
the outbreak of violence-just as Western nations were about to circulate a
proposal at the United Nations Security Council for an international
tribunal to be set up to try those implicated in the assassination of former
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 and other political
assassinations. Syria has fought for over two years to throw a spanner in
the works to prevent such a tribunal being set up-undoubtedly because the
finger of blame will end up pointing firmly back at itself.
Are Iran and Syria showing the West they have more tools at their disposal
than simply Hezbollah? Is the unrest caused by Fatah al-Islam a warning from
Iran that if it doesn't get what it wants from the U.S. out of negotiations
over Iraq, then it has a multitude of options at its disposal to cause havoc
across the Middle East?
Iran is intent on increasing its relevance in the region, as it is doing by
supporting the Gaza rocket attacks on Israel. Not only do news reports
indicate that Iran is complicit in the violence erupting in northern
Lebanon, history and logic confirm that Tehran, the king of Islamist
terrorism <http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=2136> and
greatest terrorist-sponsoring nation in the world, is behind the violence.
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