.. is this one, courtesy of (surprise, surprise) the Jerusalem Post:
UNIFIL leaks to Hizbullah worry IDF
A day after two Katyusha rockets struck Shlomi in the Galilee, defense officials raised concerns Wednesday that information they were regularly passing on to UNIFIL and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) was also making its way to Hizbullah.
According to the officials, the IDF regularly updates UNIFIL and the LAF on its assessments concerning Hizbullah’s military buildup in southern Lebanon.
Unconnected to those concerns, on Tuesday two 107-mm. Katyusha rockets struck Shlomi. Defense officials said that an al-Qaida-inspired Palestinian group was the prime suspect in the attack.
“This is a difficult scenario,” one official in Jerusalem said. “On the one hand, we count on UNIFIL and the LAF and therefore need to update them. On the other hand, there is always a concern that the information we supply them with will fall into the wrong hands.”
As you can imagine, I was licking my chops after reading this, and already had my snark-filled post about UNIFIL drafted in my head, until I got to the next paragraph.
As a result, the IDF is constantly debating the “depth” of the information it is willing to share with UNIFIL and the LAF, out of fear that due to the Lebanese Armed Forces connection, it will find its way to Hizbullah.
In other words, the IDF fear is not regarding leaks from UNIFIL to Hizbullah, but leaks from the LAF.
Hello, McFly! Of course the LAF cannot be trusted.
In other words, it is not UNIFIL leaks that the IDF is worried about – as the headline suggests – but LAF leaks.
Now don’t get me wrong. UNIFIL are pretty much allowing Hizbullah to rearm for round two, and are undermining the IDF:
Meanwhile Wednesday, the IDF raised its level of alert along the northern border for several hours after several loud explosions were heard coming from Lebanon. After contacting UNIFIL, the IDF was informed that the peacekeeping force had decided to destroy several weapon caches it had discovered. UNIFIL had forgotten to update the IDF.
But are they providing Hizbullah with information? I simply don’t know, and neither does the Jerusalem Post.
