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From: Nadine Carroll	6/17/2005 2:15:04 PM
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Interesting note from debka on technology transfer from Hizbullah to the Palestinians and the Iraqi insurgency: New US counterinsurgency operation at al Qaim June 17, 2005, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00) US aircraft, ground troops, tanks and amphibious assault units launched heavy attack on Iraqi insurgents Friday around al Qaim in the West near the Syrian border. The objective of Operation Spear is to root out insurgents and foreign fighters and disrupt their support systems around the Euphrates town of Karabila. Fierce gun battles are underway. Thursday, a suicide bomber killed at lest 8 Iraqi policemen, injured 25 on the main road to Baghdad’s airport. Earlier, an Iraqi judge and his bodyguard were short dead by gunmen who sprayed machine gun fire on their car near Mosul. Five Marines were killed when their vehicle was blown up Wednesday night by a roadside bomb near the violent western Iraqi town of Ramadi, one week after the same number of US troops was killed in the same area by a similar improvised bomb. The US military reported the guerrillas had begun using a sophisticated “shaped charge” capable of piercing heavy tank armor. This had made it necessary to improve the armor of US vehicles in Iraq. DEBKAfile’s military sources add: The Palestinian Hamas received these extra-powerful charges from the Lebanese Hizballah in 2002 and began using them against Israeli tanks in the Gaza Strip in 2003 – with lethal effect. The technology was passed round to the Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades and Palestinian “security personnel,” all of whom learned to manufacture and use the weapon. Hizballah agents in the Gaza Strip have now relayed Palestinian experience and improvements back to Hizballah Beirut, with whom the Palestinians maintain lively two-way exchanges of experts and weapon technology. From Beirut, Hizballah or al Qaeda agents were able to transfer the improved “shaped charges” to Iraqi insurgents for use against American troops.

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