Hezbollah Antiaircraft MissilesFrom Times Online:
Recently assassinated Muhammed Suleiman had been supplying antiaircraft missiles to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
A KEY aide to the Syrian president who was assassinated last weekend in mysterious circumstances had been supplying Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, with advanced Syrian SA-8 antiaircraft missiles, according to Middle Eastern sources.
Once operative, the mobile missiles will threaten the dominance of the Israeli air force over Lebanon.
The assassinated aide, Brigadier-General Muhammad Suleiman, 49, was “more important than anyone else”, wrote the London-based Saudi paper Al-Sharq al-Awsat last week: “He was senior even to the defence minister. He knew everything.”
He was killed by a single shot to the head as he sat in the garden of his summer house near the northern port city of Tartus.
Nobody heard the shot, which appears to have been fired from a speedboat by a sniper, possibly equipped with a silencer. The expertise required to execute such a long-distance sniper murder has led suspicion to fall upon the Israelis.
Read more ....
My Comment: An Israeli hit? A warning to the powers to be? A settling of accounts? I have a funny feeling that we will never know.
No comments:
Post a Comment