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North Korea Involved in Hizbullah Training and Weaponry 5 Tevet 5768, 14 December 07 10:05 by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) There is a strong likelihood that Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon were armed and possibly trained by North Korea, according to a report by the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) obtained Wednesday by the Reuters news agency. The CRS, which provides independent analyses to the Congress, cited "reputable sources" as saying North Korea had given weapons and possibly training to the Hizbullah terrorist organization, as well as to the Tamil Tigers terror group in Sri Lanka. The report quoted Paris Intelligence Online, which specializes in political and economic intelligence, which provided details in September 2006 of an extensive North Korean program to provide weapons and advance terrorist training to Hizbullah. According to the French internet publication, Hizbullah terrorists traveled to North Korea in the 1980's for advanced training. The program was expanded in 2000 by North Koreans who taught Hizbullah terrorists on site in Lebanon how to build underground bunkers. In 2000 then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak withdrew IDF troops from the security buffer zone in southern Lebanon. The move allowed Hizbullah to quickly and efficiently rebuild and strengthen its infrastructure, leading to the 2006 Second Lebanon War. The Israel Defense Forces discovered such bunkers in Lebanon, filled with weapons and food and outfitted as medical facilities, after the 2006 war. The CRS report said the North Korean training "significantly improved Hizbullah's ability to fight the Israelis" during the war. In addition, reported the CRS, the Mossad, Israel's international intelligence agency, had confirmed the French claims. Prominent South Korean academic, Professor Moon Chung-in was quoted as saying the Mossad believed North Korea had produced "vital missile components" used in rockets fired by Hizbullah at Israel during the war. North Korea appears to have been involved in other hostilities against Israel in the region, too. In September, Israel reportedly destroyed a nuclear facility in Syria that was built with parts from North Korea. The revelations may cause the Bush administration to ditch a plan it has been contemplating to offer to remove North Korea from the list of states that sponsor terrorism in return for the Southeast Asian nation's disclosure of its nuclear programs. The US has long believed that North Korea "was not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since 1987," said the report, which added that "Questions about the credibility of the claim are relevant in view of the appearance of reports." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
