Hezbollah Miscalculation?
BY Herschel Smith
18 years, 5 months ago
Jerusalem Post is reporting:
For the first time since Operation Change of Direction began on July 12 following the abduction of two soldiers in a cross-border attack, the IDF confirmed on Tuesday that a high-ranking Hizbullah leader called Al-Jafar had been killed in an IAF air strike in Lebanon. The IDF would not reveal the official’s exact position but said that he was high up in the organization’s hierarchy and was one of the Hizbullah’s regional commanders.
In another story:
A senior Hizbullah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react so strongly to its capture of two IDF soldiers this month.
Mahmoud Komati, the deputy chief of the Hezbollah politburo, also said that his group would not lay down arms.
His comments were the first time that a leader from the Islamic militant group has suggested it miscalculated the consequences of the July 12 cross-border raid that seized the two.
Has there been a strategic miscalculation on the part of Hezbollah, their big brother Syria, and their parent, Iran? Is Hezbollah back on its heels just a bit?
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