UN: Syria-Lebanon Border Wide Open to Weapons Smugglers

[Nemesis6]

Security along the Lebanon-Syria border is insufficient to prevent arms smuggling and Lebanon should quickly establish a mobile force to intercept any flow of weapons, a UN-appointed team said in a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

The 46-page ?Report of the Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team? said management of the border is currently shared by four different Lebanese security agencies that do not coordinate operations or planning, and do not share intelligence.

In addition, it said, most of Lebanon?s border posts are far from the border, are not fenced or secured by gates, and operate with no obvious procedures to determine which goods to inspect - and which people to question.

?Therefore, the ingenious smuggler may find it quite easy to conceal not only explosives, light weapons and ammunition, but also assembled and unassembled heavy weaponry, such as missiles and rockets into the country concealed in compartments and panels of cargo trucks and passenger vehicles,? the team said.

This reminds me of an earlier statement:

Visiting Tel Aviv for meetings with IDF officers, Graziano, an Italian general appointed commander of UNIFIL in February, told The Post that his men believed in their mission of preventing hostilities in southern Lebanon and were willing to sacrifice their lives on Israel?s behalf.

Since the U.N is not allowed to do anything against Hizballah, I wonder why they're there. They're not allowed to stop Hizballah, they're not allowed to search cars, and we've found out that they cannot stop weapons smuggling. They go to bed early, too:

Hizbullah terrorists are free to roam at night without fear of being identified by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to a report by the German paper Der Spiegel.

Spanish UNIFIL official Richard Ortax admitted to the paper that no patrols are carried out at night “because of the danger involved.” UNIFIL commanders said their function is to “observe changes in the behavior of the local population.”

One junior officer told Der Spiegel he was glad that his battalion had only left its camp once. “It’s absurd,” he said. “We landed here and set up our tent city, but since then we’ve only left the camp to drive around and to make sure that we’re seen.”

The report cites a long tradition of UNIFIL inaction, which it says allowed time for a Finnish contingent to construct a giant sauna and an Indian contingent to decorate its base with traditional Indian artwork.

They will lay down their lives for Israel... by observing changes in the behaviour of the local population...
No wonder they were known as the Smurfs in Yugoslavia!

 

[<RJMC>]

yes we know nuke israel and those brown people nearby we get your point

 

[PvtRyan]

yes we know nuke israel and those brown people nearby we get your point

Epic win.