Pictures Of Hezbollah’s Airport-Monitoring Containers?
Mr. Walid Jumblat refers to a “secret document” which proves that Hezbollah is monitoring the Airport’s runway 17 using containers in Ouzai. (for commentary and details, click here and here )
Since Mr. Jumblat suggested that the containers could be used to shoot down a landing airplane, the matter should be looked into as soon as possible by the authorities. But if you’re curious, I checked the recently-updated Google Earth and found out exactly where those containers could be:
Below is a close-up of the Area marked in red:
Notice how the containers have unhindered access via a wide sand road to the main street.
Update:
Over at LPJ, Blogger Charles makes a valid point:
In Beirut, you don’t even need radar to track aircraft. From any tall building, the naked eye is a decent instrument to use to track incoming aircraft into the airport. Much more can be done the higher up in the mountains one goes. Any radical with a surface to air missile can set up base on the Rmleit al Bayda beach, or any seaside tall building, and take potshots at incoming planes. Send a monitor to Cyprus, infiltrate Cypriot government monitoring systems, or install your own system in the generally ungoverned Turkish Cypriot area and you’ll have even better equipment with which to monitor aircraft in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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hmmm could those be related to the very well known and respect press agency FILKKA ISREAL report that you can find on tayyar website:
http://www.tayyar.org/Tayyar/News/PoliticalNews/ar-LB/128541799986359120.htm
Filkka isreal is a major world wide known agency run by one guy and posts its reports on a blog started in january 2008. It major articles are mostly attacking isreal war policies, and saying sanioura/harriri team working with mossad.
“generally ungoverned turkish cypriot”, eh? Come on; even Congo has more government than Lebanon.
moe,
i know you have alot on your plate with work and stuff, but considering that some of you reader’s arabic is a little rough, could you elaborate on that article posted in the comments section? perhaps give a small 4-5 sentences update about it in english.
looking into your image, analyzing 3-D IMINT images and gathering more views from other satellites, i can confirm that the placement of these containers is NOT common. especially next to a runway. however i cannot confirm nor elaborate on their content. but what i can say is that since jumblatt made his press release, movement around these structures has been heavy (you can check yourself if you track the images on google earth)
Gotta love how quickly conspiracy theories are dismissed when it comes to Hizbullah. What? Only the Mossad is capable of wild-ass conspiracy theories that involve Martians and the Litani river? But somehow Hizbullah is too honorable to ever have anything sinister going on?
As usual people can’t seem to add 2+2.
And to add to the container story. There’s also this report that a bunch of Iranians are surveilling Geagea’s residence.
http://tinyurl.com/3zl2pb
These Iranians claimed to be students at the Lebanese University (yet somehow don’t speak a word of arabic, apparently).
And Now Lebanon has an interesting piece about Hizbullah being above the law (this covers everything from security zones to phone networks, to not paying electricity bills)
http://tinyurl.com/3ghpul
eRamzi,
You are aware the images are updated on google earth about once a year right? You can’t track anything from day to day or even week to week on GE.
With Waleed on the scene, you’re never bored.No need to watch Hollywood movies anymore. It’s amazing that some people think HA are stupid enough to even try shooting a civilian airplane (about to land no less with minimal fuel on board and not much elevation to crash either). It’s much easier to go kill the target as he is driving out of the airport in Beirut than causing collateral damage and killing a couple of hundred civilians (some of them HA supporters). Waleed Bek I love you.
Anyway, I have to go back check google earth for a parking spot in Gemayze for tonight. I hope I won’t find heavy movements around this are.
Well, guess what, you idiots who got all suspicious of Jumblatt’s revelations. Turns out he was right. Army intelligence confirms the story today. And it turns out the HA-run airport security intentionally turned a blind eye to the whole deal. HA claims the cameras were installed to prevent theft from Jihad Al Binaa (hahahahaha!). An investigation is now open into the matter. But of course, like all investigations before it, we’ll never hear from it again.
Why the government doesn’t simply FIRE the airport head of security guy (Kamal Safa, I believe), and why didn’t the army ARREST the suspicious individuals they observed handling the cameras???
Oh right, because the one thing that’s even worse than HA’s “above the law” daily actions is the government’s complete ineptitude and incompetence, and insistence on giving HA a free pass, for fear of provoking them. I got news for you, M14. Pretty soon, you’re not gonna have anything left to protect if you continue giving HA a free pass! Avoiding confrontation is not the answer.
The example stated by someone yesterday, about the 3 guys being attacked by a Bear was extremely apt.
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This isn’t about Jumblatt. This is about Hezbollah.
How much more evidence does one need to conclude that
Hezbollah is running a different state within a state.
They have their own system, private areas where no one can enter, telecom system, monitoring aparatus everywhere, foreign policy, army, police, tv station, etc…
The roots of Hezbollah’s strengths are within Syria and Iran. Syria, Iran, Hezbollah are the cancers of the middle-east; they are leading us from one disaster to another. They must be defeated, once and for all.
what makes you so sure that these are the containers. On TV the containers were blue and red just like you usually find in the port of Beirut. Mustafa this was a failed analysis on your part.
What i know about the underlined area is that the runnaway is overlooking theses part.
sound difficult for cameras to remote the runnaway in such conditions …
Another point:
Once i was taking pictures of the abc dbayeh and i was “interviewed” by 2 officiers notifying me i wasnt having the right to take pictures since the american ambassy is nearby.
Lately when i was in Downtown, visiting the pharaon villa next to the grand serail, a guard from the english ambassy came armed, crossed several lebanese check points without questionning (so he was armed and outside the diplomatic area) to ask me to look to the pictures I was taking inside the garden of that museum.
Maybe if we begin to ask the Hezbollah to remove their security stuff, we should also ask the foreigner entities to respect the lebanese sovereignty as well.
masmoos ya masmoos
ya masmmos israeeel
Pathetic apologist frenchy.
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The real pathetic is the one just forgetting the facts dear Leb christian that sounds like a partitionist and sectarist.
Bad Vilbel if we are idiots then you must be a genius. Show us where the Army intelligence confirms that HA is trying to down a civilian airplane. As far as monitoring is concerned, if any of you guys think that HA can trust the Lebanese government to protect HA leadership from assassination attempts by Israelis, Americans or Lebanese then I’ll be the first to ask them to dismantle all their intelligence infrastructure. Nobody seems to realize the extent of HA restraint. The current American government who “publicly” is trying to eliminate HA, is having its diplomats freely roaming around Beirut and giving public speeches in Lebanese media. While Waleed is asking for Iranian diplomats to be expelled!
Restraint?
What restraint? HA is gobbling up every part of Lebanon. Just today they warned against the dismantiling of their ILLEGAL communications network because it’s supposedly “part of the Resistance”. Nice excuse that. Everything is “part of the Resistance” so the state can’t touch it.
Restraint???
HA is committing ILLEGAL ACTS. They are ABOVE THE LAW. I don’t care about restraint. NO ONE should be above the law. NO ONE should have their own areas where the police can’t go in, or taxes can’t be collected. NO ONE should have their own weapons, their own communications system and their own state within a state.
There is just NO ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE FOR THAT.
Restraint?
I’d like to see how you react when someone takes over your house, bit by bit, starts throwing out your furniture, then starts telling you “you can’t come into this room anymore. But look! I’m showing retraint! You can still use the bathroom! I’m so generous!”
HAH!
Yeah. I stand by my use of the word “idiots”. Some comments here speak for themselves.
This is unbelievable. Some idiots call HA the resistance. Who is the resistance??? what type of people or what counries this resistance is representing BS. It’s about time to burn down the slums. If the government and the uncapable leaders of this country cannot do anything about this, and having traitors i.e. michel aoun and company. Our only hope is Israel, hopefully this time they will do the job with the help of the lebanese that do not want to live under syria or iran backed shit heads. Let’s just burn the part of beirut that has no use for lebanon and rejuvenate the soil. If that’s what will take, then let it be…..burn the slums with wanna do “the muslim republic of lebanon”….
pathetic comment Georges. Go and consult a doctor
the cam story is ridiculous. the airport’s concrete fence is obstructing, better view could be from any high floor of the area around the airport. As for the private telphone network, it is obviously the only way to secure HA communication. As it will be easy to eliminate his leaders & high staff if using any wireless communication.
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