
The fact that Hezbollah lost all their primo, top of the line Iranian built,
Zelzal-2 missiles in the first
half hour of the war with Israel, has really gotten their panties in a wad.
They had no idea that Israel knew exactly where they were, and they were devastated when Israel wiped them out first thing.
They are now out looking for and arresting people they suspect of collaborating with Israel against the guerilla group.
First wave of arrests inside Hizballah of suspected informers to Israeli intelligenceNo commissions of inquiry for Hassan Nasrallah. Our exclusive sources learn that Hizballah’ special security service has begun rounding up suspects in the northern Beqaa Valley, Baalbek and South Lebanon of members and others suspected of tipping off Israel intelligence on the location of the storehouse holding the heavy Zelzal missiles.
Those missiles, no more than three or four, were held in reserve as Hizballah’s most devastating strategic weapon against Israel, capable of hitting Tel Aviv.
Monday, Aug. 28, prime minister Ehud Olmert revealed for the first time that the Israeli air force destroyed those missiles in the first 34 minutes of the Lebanon war on July 12. Nasrallah needs urgently to find the leak through which the missiles’ place of storage and very existence, one of Hizballah’s most tightly kept secrets known only to very few top leaders of the organization, reached Israel.
The first arrests were made among people living in the vicinity of the missile cache.
More arrests have been carried out in the Shiite communities who live near or are connected with the Hizballah intelligence and secret command centers in Baalbek, which were targeted by Israeli air strikes and commando forays.
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources reveal that Hizballah’s special security apparatus is focusing on two lines of inquiry:
1. Israel’s Aug. 1 commando raid on the Deir al Hikhma hospital in Baalbek.
2. The series of Israeli incursions in the course of the war in the hills northwest of Baalbek, where Hizballah’s main command center, including its intelligence headquarters, are hidden underground in well fortified quarters – and are still in place.
Some have claimed that Hezbollah did not fire these missiles into Israel during the war because of Tehran's opposition, but I think the real truth may lie right here.
If they had them, they would have used them. No doubt in my mind.