Sunday 11th May 2008
Sources report that three weeks before Hezballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speed-boats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod Mediterranean ports and raid its coastal oil installations.
The speed-boats had been tailor-made for Hezballah by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards ship-yards at Bandar Abbas and the only marine terror fleet operating in Mediterranean waters. Sources report the boats are capable of carrying chemical, biological, and radiological weapons systems.
They were delivered in mid-April by an Iranian freighter at the Syrian port of Latakia and trucked to Naimah port, south of Beirut. There they were hidden in the subterranean hangars belonging to Ahmed Jibril, head of the Palestinian Liberation Front General Command. Today, the PLF-GC is financed and directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The hangars had been constructed in the seventies by East German engineers at a protected Mediterranean anchorage virtually impenetrable by sea or air.