On the other hand...
Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Many of the rockets Hezbollah is firing into Israel are made in Iran, demonstrating the Islamic republic's success in copying Chinese and Russian technology to build its own weapons industry.
The Shiite Muslim group's arsenal includes Iranian-built portable Katyusha rockets, Israeli Reserve Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser said. Hezbollah struck an Israeli ship on July 14 with an Iranian-made C802 Noor guided missile. The militia also has Iran's Zelzal rocket, with a range of 120 miles, enough to reach Tel Aviv from south Lebanon, said Yaakov Amidror, a retired major general who ran Israel's National Defense College.
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To supply Hezbollah, Iran flies arms to Syria, where they're loaded on trucks and shipped into Lebanon under Syrian supervision, said Yiftah Shapir, editor of the ``Middle East Military Balance,'' an annual survey published by Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.
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The Zelzal, which means ``earthquake'' in Arabic, contains a 600-kilogram (1,322-pound) warhead, said Doug Richardson, editor of Jane's Missiles and Rockets, published in Coulsdon, England. That compares with the 90- and 175-kilogram warheads on the shorter-range Fajr-3 and Fajr-5, which Hezbollah also has, Richardson said. The Fajr-5 is based on China's WS-1, according to a Web site run by the Federation of American Scientists.
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Hezbollah funds itself with direct transfers from Iran, and by creating front companies for currency counterfeiting, cigarette smuggling and other illegal activities, according to U.S. Treasury and State Department officials.
Iran's subsidy to Hezbollah is about $300 million a year, with $100 million for social programs such as schools and the rest for military purposes, said Ariel Cohen, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation.
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Another large part of Hezbollah's funding comes from Latin America, said Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of ``Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It'' (Bonus Books, 2003).
Hezbollah is involved in drug trafficking through an agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and makes counterfeit goods, including DVDs, in the ``tri-border area,'' where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet, she said.
Neither Hezbollah nor the Palestinian group Hamas would be able to launch missiles, train people or provide ``the so-called social security to buy the loyalty of the population if they didn't have money,'' said Ehrenfeld, who is also director of the New York-based American Center for Democracy, a non-profit group. ``If we were able to stop that money, this wouldn't happen.''
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A 220-millimeter rocket that ripped through the roof of a Haifa rail yard July 16 and killed eight workers was Syrian-made, according Israel's bomb disposal unit.
Syria's ambassador to the U.K., Sami Khiyami, said his country isn't supplying arms to Hezbollah.
``The only thing Syria is doing, it is telling the international community we have a constructive role to play but the aggression has to stop,'' he said.
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Emphasis added.
Why was the airport bombed again? :-/
Hmm. 120 miles. That means that Hezbollah would need to be driven out of a swath from the border to [link|https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html|Batro\ufffdn] or so. I hope you guys are understanding what you're in for....
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who hopes the UN gets off its butt and does something soon, but isn't optimistic about that.)