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DebkaFile: Syria Trained 2 Hizbullah Brigades on Scuds
"Israel's" military website Debkafile revealed in a report issued yesterday that Syria had trained, not transferred, on scud missiles.
The site stated that the A or SS-1B Scud missiles were positioned at the border in preparation for transfer "at a moment's notice", the site claimed.
The report refuted a flurry of media reports which claimed that the ground missiles had already been smuggled into Lebanon in violation of UN resolutions.
According to DEBKAfile's military sources, "Israel" is "especially sensitive to the prospect of Scud missiles in the hands of Iran's Lebanese proxy, Hizbullah, for two reasons:
1. Their range is 700 km, more than double the 300 km-range generally reported. What they lack in precision, they more than make up for in the distance of their reach; they would enable Hizbullah for the first time to hit the big "Israeli" air bases in the southern Negev, twice as far from the Lebanese border as Tel Aviv.
2. The Scud A or SS-1B are self-propelled, and therefore highly mobile and maneuverable and requiring relatively small teams and few vehicles for their operation. This would render their Hizbullah operators less susceptible to "Israel" air attack.
The report also revealed that in the second half of March when the Obama administration learned of Syria's preparations to arm Hizbullah with these Scuds, the White House sent John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to intercede with President Bashar Assad.
Syrian President Bashar Assad denied at their meeting in Damascus on April 1st that the missiles had been smuggled into Lebanon, but he kept to himself the information that they were poised on the border for transfer and that two Hizbullah brigades had been trained to fire them, according to the report.
"Israel's" war minister Ehud Barak said the Scuds, if they were delivered, "would alter the balance of strength in the region and threaten its stability and calm."
"We recommend that everyone maintain the calm," Barack added.
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