Re: Pakistan should send mediators and promise to deploy troops in Southern Lebanon
I do not know but it seems that lot of blood shedding could happen in that region.
Many believe (backed with plenty of evidences) that after the fall of USSR, Russian nuclear weapons and nuclear missiles were available in black market (especially to the countries of the region). The country that could have taken most advantage of the situation could be Pakistan and Iran (especially Iran as they had lot of influences amongst NA and newly independent central Asian countries). I do not think that Pakistan and Iran are so stupid that they would not have taken any advantage from the situation that developed after the collapse of Russia.
Thus, what the region holds is anyone’s guess. It is possible that both Iran and Pakistan may have equipped themselves with Russian inter-continental nuclear ballistic missiles (just a guess). What Hizbullah holds is also anyone’s guess.
Apart of the fact that Iran is well nit country without obvious and conflicting divisions, like Afghanistan (where NA and Taliban were fighting) and Iraq (where sect and ethnic lines was dividing the country), I believe that Iran is so bellicose and confident in their attitude could be because of above reason.
http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/15/top8.htm
‘Hezbollah can hit Tel Aviv’
LONDON, July 14: The Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon possesses about 100 missiles with a range of 150km enabling it to hit Tel Aviv, according to the London specialist magazine Jane’s defence weekly.
Quoting Israeli intelligence sources, it said Hezbollah probably had a total of 10,000 to 15,000 missiles provided by Syria and Iran.
They included the Iranian-made Fajr-5 with a range of some 75km enabling it to reach the Israeli port of Haifa, and the Zelsal-1 with an estimated 150km range, which meant it could hit Tel Aviv.
“As far it is known, Hezbollah has never fired any of these weapons,” the magazine’s Middle East correspondent Ed Blanche wrote in an article published on July 5.
In the same article, Jane’s quoted Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese Hezbollah leader, as saying on May 23 that his organisation possessed 12,000 missiles.
“None of the figures can be verified,” the magazine said.
Hezbollah denied Thursday Israeli claims that it had fired rockets on Israel’s third largest city Haifa.
Israel had threatened to attack residential areas of Beirut should Hezbollah fire rockets at Haifa, as the Lebanese Shiite fundamentalist movement had earlier threatened.—AFP
and I didnt get one thing why Hezbollah guerrillas militants seized the two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid from Lebanon on Wednesday even knowing Israeli is very aggressive country specially for militants. Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in the raid. Who is talking pange for without any reason? 