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Jihad Vs. Jihad: New Evidence Suggests Hezbollah Fighters Are in Syria Fighting for Assad

Feb. 18, 2013 8:14am Sharona Schwartz

Jihad Vs. Jihad New Evidence Hezbollah Fighters Are in Syria Fighting for Assad

Hezbollah militants march in Lebanon (File photo: Salah Malkawi/Getty Images)

New evidence over the weekend emerged of the growing involvement of Hezbollah in the Syrian civil war. The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the main opposition group battling President Bashar Assad’s forces, claims some 1,000 Hezbollah fighters entered Syria over the weekend and engaged in bloody battles.

The FSA spokesman said, “It’s a coordinated ground invasion…Hezbollah has started a war against us.”

According to Lebanon’s Daily Star, three Hezbollah militants were killed in battles over the weekend, as were 12 rebel fighters. The paper is characterizing the fighting as “the worst near the border with Lebanon since the uprising erupted.” It warned Hezbollah’s increasing involvement in Syria could portend a spillover of the civil conflict into next-door Lebanon. It also provides further evidence of the sectarian divide of the combatants, the Shi’ite Hezbollah pitted against Sunni rebels, many of whom are themselves radical jihadis from neighboring countries.

The Syrian National Council (SNC) is accusing Hezbollah of “military intervention” and of employing “heavy weapons openly and under the auspices of the Syrian regime army.”

It called the development a “serious threat to Syrian-Lebanese relations and regional peace and security.”

Hezbollah is allied with President Assad who represents the minority Alawite sect of Shi’ite Islam. Both Hezbollah and Assad are supported by Iran.

The clashes took place southwest of Homs in an area that is home to both Shi’ites and Sunnis. Reuters reports:

Fighting began on Saturday as Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, in control of eight Syrian border villages, tried to move into three adjacent villages held by Syrian Free Army rebels, said Hadi al-Abdallah of the Syrian Revolution General Commission.

Syrian helicopters fired rockets at rebel positions to support the advancing Hezbollah unit, which included pro-Assad militia recruited from the villages it controls, residents said.

“The Hezbollah force moved on foot and was supported by multiple rocket launchers. The Free Syrian Army had to call in two tanks that had been captured from the Assad army to repel the attack,” Abdallah told Reuters by phone.

The villages of Burhanieh, Abu Houri and Safarja defended by the rebels lie on smuggling routes. Many locals have Syrian and Lebanese nationality and property on both sides of the border.

According to Reuters, Hezbollah guerrillas started crossing the Syrian border from their base in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley last year.

President Bashar Assad and his late father Hafez Assad have allowed Hezbollah to receive its weapons from Iran via Damascus, which are then transported over the border to Lebanon, a key supply route for the terrorist group. Since the Syrian conflict began, Israel and the U.S. have been sounding the alarm over the possibility that Hezbollah or other terror groups could seize Assad’s chemical weapons were the regime to collapse.

Reuters explains that the border area near Qusair, in rebel control, “has become an important supply route for insurgents under siege in the central city of Homs.” It reports:

Mohammad Mroueh, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council who is from Homs, said the purported Hezbollah-led operation was designed to cut off the supply lines to Homs.

The opposition’s grip on Sunni neighborhoods in Homs weakened after Assad’s army seized several Sunni districts following the massacre of hundreds of civilians by pro-Assad Shabbiha militia, according to opposition campaigners.

Despite the reports from rebel sources who say they recognize the Hezbollah militants by their flag, Hezbollah denies its members are fighting alongside Assad’s troops. Lebanon’s Daily Star points out that the militant group sometimes announces the death of one of its members killed “carrying out his jihadist duty,” but without providing details.

In October, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah admitted that Hezbollah fighters were fighting jihadi rebels in Syria, but that they were doing so on their own, not as emissaries of the radical group.

The Washington Post reported last week that Iran and Hezbollah were building a militia network in Syria “to preserve and protect their interests in the event that President Bashar al-Assad’s government falls or is forced to retreat from Damascus, according to U.S. and Middle Eastern officials.”

Last month, Israeli jets reportedly attacked a weapons convoy bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon, apparently carrying Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles which Israel fears would be strategically “game-changing” were they to land in Hezbollah’s hands.

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Comments (25)

ionamerica
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:54pm
It reminds me of Lokai and Commissioner Bheal. I hope the last sunni kills the last shiite. But failing that, I hope the rebels triumph even though they bring with them the risk of another tyrannical sharia government with designs on creating a new caliphate. Maybe Iran will get sucked in so completely their economy finishes collapsing and a new democracy arrises in Iran. Maybe, the conflagration will burn with such intensity that American muslims will leave and fight over there. You know, really, war couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:36am
Keep arming both sides to stalemate status. Create a forever war in Syria. Money well spent.

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- TotallyNotATroll
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:23pm
  None of them really respect borders, this is so shocking, unbelievable, no one could have ever predicted this. Obama’s Arab Spring was purely about the spread of democracy (heart bleeds).
  
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LukeAppling
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:16am
If the world can only wait patiently Islam will destroy itself because each sect think they are the correct group and all others are wrong.When Islam gains power eventually Shiites attack Sunnis while Wahabis attack both each sect hates the others and only infidels are hated by all sects….until power is gained.

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:41am
No wonder assad is losing – all the hezbollah know how to do is march with a goosestep and fire rifes into the air. All the smuggling of weapons to the rebels by obama’s administration in libya and through turkey are helping beat assad also. Another of our tax monies going down the crapper.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:37am
The middle eastern oven has a self- cleaning feature that is started with islam and fueled by jihad.

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BSdetector
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:26am
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
The longer this business in Syria goes on, and the higher the body count, the safer the civilized people of the world will be.

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hauschild
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:18am
Cool – nut jobs killing each other in their own country and not here. Hopefully each side succeeds equally well.

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DeathRattle
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:03am
Let all the “peace-loving” “tolerant” islamic folk go to Syria and jihad themselves into oblivion. Religion of peace my a$$. If allah is so real why does he rely on men to do his dirty work? Allah is a pansy, a fraud, a failed moon god that never existed.

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- Beachmastermax
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:08pm
  Satan finally got to read the finished cannon of scripture and created his masterpiece counterfiet religion, Islam.
  
  Here, is what God thinks of the moon god.
  
  Deuteronomy 17:3 NAS
  “and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the MOON any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,”
  
  Deuteronomy 4:19 NAS
  “And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the MOON and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven”
  
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AUsername
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:34am
let the middle east fight itself out and enjoy some popcorn and watch the war movie.

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jman-6
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:27am
Sure is getting interesting! A little side note the Albanian mafia is bank rolling the rebels with ***** anti-tank missiles from Serbia n Croatia. Guess the mobs miss all the unfettered killing days of the past so they decided to hop in to.

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tzion
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:40am
I’d agree with you if I believed the blaze programed the censorship program itself. More likely, though, they simply purchased a preexisting program with most of the censor words already built in.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:39am
Hezbollah is the Iranian proxy in the region and thus has moved to help Syria – another Iranian ally/client state/puppet state (as you choose).

The Syrian forces fighting Assad are terrorists armed by Obama and are part of the Muslim Brotherhood, another extremist and radical Islamist group. Much of the Syrian people oppose the coming Islamist state and are supporting Assad as the lesser of two evils.

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ginger100
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:29am
Use the word race ist plus found ing fathers plus const it tu tion in a sentence.

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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:32am
  i do believe you are trolling. The racism i see in America comes from left field.
  
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GUYFROMMAINE
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:29am
As long as they leave our true ally alone, Israel, then let them have at it. The U.S. should stop sending aid to these “wonderful” piece-loving muslim countries. They openly espouse their love for death, let them have their way. The more muslims invovled in killing each other, the safer our soldiers, our allies, and Americans are.

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Gonzo
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:24am
I read these stories and think about how lucky I am to have been born here, Yep it’s screwed up at the moment, but far better than 3/4 of the rest of the world.

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- woodyee
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:33am
  Yeah it’s screwed up in at the moment – 45-year moment – since the rise of political correctness, liberal theology and Congressional card-carrying members of The International Socialist – http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71&sectiontree=2,71
  
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chitstirrer
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:23am
There’s No Need To Fear…John Kerry Is Here To Save The Day!

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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:23am
The FSA spokesman said, “It’s a coordinated ground invasion…Hezbollah has started a war against us.”

As a skinny Marxist POS is fond of saying,’elections have consequences’ and this is one of them. The ‘Arab spring’ brought to you by BHO destroying one country at a time.

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tzion
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:22am
Hezbollah is Syrian proxy army. Syria is a terrorist state. A match made in hell.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:56am
  Yep. Wonder if this puts Jihad Jerk in a quandary. Oh, damn, mentioned the damned, obligatory jihad noise must now ensue: lalalalalalalalala.
  
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- DAS_NIETZSCHEAN
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:41am
  Syria is not a terror state. terror states are those who kill and enslave other minority religions. syria and turkey are not terror states…. unlike SUDAN, Iran, saudi arabia, pakistan,libya, Afghanistan. and a few others. where they actually murder Christians or non-believers and make people of these religions slaves to the “majority” either Muslim or Communist. if you are muslim and find that your belief is in error and join another( not just Chistianity) “”Tings of THEY”" will KILL you!!!! IF you dont follow in lock step with the teachings OF ISLAM they will kill you.
  Now with these two states Lebanon and Syria they have large numbers of christians that dont want to see on islamic take over. meaning… that will lead to gun confiscation then Genocide( look up the word) islam does it all the time. read your history. some are moderate we should stand with isreal. and give information to syria. they are fighting our true enemy “jihad”
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:21am
Hezbollah against the Obama-backed, Al-Qaeda-linked FSA!

Gotta check my wee little pantry and see if I’ve got any popcorn in there – this is gonna be good!

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