Report: FSA Fighting with Iranian-Made Hizbullah Arms
The rebel Free Syrian Army is fighting government troops with Iranian-made Hizbullah weapons that were smuggled out of the party's depots in northern and eastern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said.
The sources told the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper published Tuesday that several Hizbullah members that guard the party's depots in the North and the eastern Bekaa valley have been lately arrested for looting the hidden weapons and ammunition and selling them to the FSA.
Tons of these arms and ammunition worth millions of dollars have also fallen in the hands of Sunni factions in the northern city of Tripoli and the district of Akkar, the sources said.
Hizbullah is a staunch supporter of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and is allegedly sending its members to the neighboring country to fight the rebels that are seeking to overthrow him.
The party has in recent months buried a number of fighters killed in Syria, without publicly disclosing how the men were killed, or where.
Rebel leadership sources also told al-Seyassah that several brigades have been deployed on the Syrian-Lebanese border in Lebanon's north and are in direct contact with Sunni fighters in Tripoli, Akkar and the Bekaa valley's northeast to prepare for a battle with Hizbullah “gangs.”
Hundreds of residents of Shiite villages that lie in areas where the Lebanese-Syrian border is intertwined began heading to the Bekaa valley over fears of invasion, the sources said.
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